Visualization

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

Environmental cost of food

The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group…

Grocery owner territories

Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains.…

Immigration in Democrat counties

For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show…

Political leanings of first and last names

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…

Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts

For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…

Spell your name with satellite imagery

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…

Atlas of Design, Volume 7

Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas…

Fingers for scale

This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and…

Making unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated

For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between…

Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds

Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has…

Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game

You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves…

Weight of cars and fatalities

The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions,…

Internationalization of K-Pop

K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…

Basketball globe

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…

Map of job gains and losses

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…

Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor

To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…

Air Quality Stripes

In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a…

Scammed out of life savings, a line chart

Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little,…