Visualization

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

What works in visualization, scientifically speaking

Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Jessica…

Why we listen to the same Christmas songs

You know it’s the holiday season when Mariah Carey starts singing about wanting…

NASA solar probe touched the sun

NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018 in an effort to explore closer to the sun.

Vaccination rates compared against country wealth

Vaccine supply is only part of the equation. For The New York Times,…

Flowchart for pandemic supply chain issues

Lazaro Gamio and Peter S. Goodman for The New York Times used a…

Climate change postcards from every country

The effects of climate change can be seen around the world, in the…

Leland Wilkinson, creator of The Grammar of Graphics, passed away

Leland Wilkinson passed away on Friday, according to his daughter Amie. In visualization…

Most used emoji for the year

I am told people use these things called emoji in their messages to…

Stephen Curry career threes compared to other players

Stephen Curry is about to break the record for number of three-pointers made…

Animated map of microplastics in the ocean

Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…

Clock shows percentage of life lived so far

Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage…

AI-powered artwork app

Wombo Dream is a fun app that lets you enter some words to…

Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area

It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…

Bees use social distancing

Research by M. Pusceddu et al. shows that honeybees use social distancing when…

Emissions and energy usage from Ethereum network

It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is…

Rapidly growing African cities

In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in…

Inflation in the context of age generations

When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago,…

Map made of candy corn to show corn production

With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…