Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics

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

Serena Williams beat every Grand Slam champion

Serena Wiliams’ tennis career is impressive for its success and longevity, which are…

Estimating the condition of the economy

Measuring the condition of the economy is tricky, because there are many parts…

Animated charts to show sports results

Krisztina Szűcs likes to make animated charts to show sports results, from fencing,…

Emissions from fires in the Arctic

Reuters reported on the fires in the Arctic and the relatively high levels…

Science of the tennis toss

To serve the ball in tennis, a player first tosses the ball in…

Gerrymandering detection with simulations

Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, how simulations can be used to detect…

Where memes from the past decade came from

Know Your Meme analyzed a decade of meme data to see where the…

Splitting the US population evenly, with arbitrary shapes

By Engaging Data, this interactive map shows various splits of the United States…

China’s possible blockade around Taiwan

It appears China wants to impose a blockade around Taiwan with ships, submarines,…

Losses and comebacks of Serena Williams

We tend to celebrate the wins in sports and often forget about or…

Big diagram of metabolic pathways

The contents of this diagram is not in my scope, but it is…

Where restaurant chains dominate

Researchers Xiaofan Liang and Clio Andris estimated the percentage of restaurants that are…

Meteorologist delighted by surprise map interaction

Meteorologist Greg Dutra was delivering the daily weather news for ABC Chicago and…

Network for Marvel Cinematic Universe

With a fun view of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tristan Guillevin walks through…

Welcome to Meltsville

It’s getting hot in cities around the world, each city with its own…

Megaflood scenario

Highlighting research by Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain, who studied “plausible worst…

Breaking down the higher price on a restaurant receipt

If you’ve eaten at a restaurant lately, you might have noticed a substantially…

Worst drought in Europe, in 500 years

Dominic Royé mapped river discharge in Europe over the past few months: A…