Visualization

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

Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream

I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…

Slow internet for the same price as fast internet

When you pay for internet, it seems like a reasonable expectation that if…

All the elections where you live

We tend to talk about elections as this uniform thing. People vote for…

Less rich Covid billionaires

With Covid came sudden shifts in daily life and work, which gave rise…

Chartball is sports data visualized in a playful way

With Chartball, Andrew Garcia Phillips has visualized sports data for a while, publishing…

Linear regression visual explainer

MLU-Explain continues with their visual explainers for machine learning and statistical concepts. Most…

Future monsoon patterns

The monsoon season in South Asia brings water to the people and land,…

China’s fishing patterns shift globally

China’s fish supply is running low along its own coast, so they’ve shifted…

K-Means clustering visually explained

Say you want to identify clusters in a scatterplot of points. K-Means is…

Coffee versus tea in charts

Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg and Garland Potts, for The Washington Post, made charts…

Accessible visualization with Olli JavaScript library

The Olli library aims to make it easier for developers to improve the…

Tree Talk

Kelton Sears used a vertical scroll upwards to think about trees and time.…

Mapping climate-related hazards in real-time

Bringing in data from various federal agencies: Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation…

Days-since tickers for all the natural disasters

You know those signs in workplaces that keep track of days since injury?…

Potential storm surge flooding map

NOAA provides a map of potential flooding due to Hurricane Ian headed towards…

Trajectories of celebratory gunfire

When someone fires a gun into the air, the bullet travels thousands of…

Maps of wildfire smoke pollution

Wildfire obviously damages the areas it comes in direct contact with, but wildfire…

Housing market cooldown

I heard you like spiral charts when the data is seasonal. I think…