Visualization

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

Crochet lake map

Andrew Hahn crocheted a map of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. Each stitch represents…

Friend simulation system, with ChatGPT

Philippe Vandenbroeck and Santiago Ortiz were curious about a system that incorporated knowledge…

To make electric vehicle batteries, China must be involved

For The New York Times, Agnes Chang and Keith Bradsher ask if it’s…

Where people are moving in the U.S.

Based on migration data recently released by the IRS, Nami Sumida for the…

Objectiveness distributions

Putting this joke chart up for posterity, because it deserves it. The earliest…

Using gaps in location data to track illegal fishing

Speaking of non-location in the seas, researchers at the University of California at…

Fake location signals from oil tankers avoiding oversight

The New York Times tracked oil tankers faking their location as they ignore…

Generative AI exaggerates stereotypes

Perhaps to no one’s surprise, generative artificial intelligence models contain bias rooted in…

Smoke from Canada wildfires over the U.S.

Wildfires in one area means smoke and pollution travels to surrounding areas, even…

NYC city council district voting guide

With New York 2023 elections coming up, The City and NY1 put together…

See if you are middle class

What counts as middle class depends on who and where you’re asking. Even…

A moving drumbeat, explained visually

When you first learn to play music, a lot of the instruction is…

Map of donut federations

In a fun one by Alyssa Fowers, for The Washington Post’s Department of…

Rights at risk at the U.S. Supreme Court level

For ProPublica, Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernandez evaluated records of sitting justices to…

Scale model of the universe’s timeline

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVvEbH2GC0″ /] To better understand the scale of time and feed your…

More hiring, because more quitting

This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem…

A guessing game for place and time

Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. TimeGuessr shows you…

Shortening baseball games

Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over…