Visualization

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

Getting oil to the gas tank from the Strait of Hormuz

For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles illustrate the journey…

Visualizing history within a grid

For the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes and Adam Green visit Antoni Jażwiński’s…

Increasing costs in the beef supply chain

Beef prices keep going up a noticeable amount in grocery stores. For Bloomberg,…

Cartographers review movie maps

John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…

EVs getting cheaper to go farther

The cost of an electrical vehicle used to increase quickly as you shopped…

Build a British voter

The Economist shows probabilities that a person votes for each party, given a…

Penguin relationship diagrams at the aquarium

The Kyoto Aquarium in Kyoto and the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo each have…

Estimating damage to civilian areas in Iran

Even if only military areas are targeted, civilian and commercial structures are also…

Lower fertility, probably delayed

Lower fertility is typically pitched as a bad thing, but it can be…

Mechanics of GPS

Shri Khalpada of PerThirtySix explains how GPS works using a set of small…

Causes of death around the world for different groups

Mortality varies widely by geography and demographic group. It has also changed over…

Scale of proposed arch in D.C.

The administration wants to build a 250-foot tall arch in Washington. That’s a…

Battle for Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz might be “completely open” for ships to pass through,…

Crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong

Millions of people protested in Hong Kong against China’s Communist Party back in…

Data portraits of population

To make India’s census documents more accessible to the public in the 1970s,…

History of mapping the Moon

For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…

Visual guide to Iran’s coastline and islands at the Strait of Hormuz

For Al Jazeera, Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad provide a map of…

Days that Trump spends at his own properties

Trump spends a lot of time at his own hotels and golf clubs.…