Visualization

Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.

Superheroes minimalized

Fabian Gonzalez goes minimalistic on superheroes. I like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.…

College football coaches’ ballots

Brett Coffman and Juan Thomassie for USA Today have a look at how…

Picturing social order

Gareth Holt designed several charts and graphs for Rank: picturing the social order…

Axes of peeing in public

You might think this is a joke, but this is serious business. From…

Similarities between PhD dissertations

Certain fields of study tend to cover many of the same topics. Many…

The United States of Autocomplete

Very Small Array has some fun with Google’s autocomplete. Utah… Jazz. Kentucky… Fried…

Relationships on the Bold and the Beautiful explained

I don’t get soap operas. People get married, divorced, evil twins show up,…

Amanda Cox on data graphics and stuff

At New Media Days 2010, New York Times graphics editor Amanda Cox talks…

Awards from Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Between February 17, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 88,791 awards have been funded…

The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling

The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…

Build your LinkedIn career tree

How did you get to where you are now in your work life?…

Girl Talk mashup breakdown visualized

In case you missed it, Girl Talk recently released his fifth album All…

How Twitter users balanced the budget

In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…

Evolution of the two-party vote during past century

Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…

Mapping human development in America

In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…

A world of tweets

We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…

Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles

TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods: We wanted…

What generation do you belong to?

In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…