Visualization

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

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2022

Every year, I pick my favorite data visualization projects, which tend to cover a wide range of purposes but are typically for presentation. Here are my favorites for 2022.

Southwest flight cancellations

There were a lot of flight cancellations this week, but Southwest Airlines is…

Apply your daylight saving preferences to the rest of the country

We like to complain about changing time an hour back or forward, and…

Inevitably super rich

Sometimes it feels like a foregone conclusion that most of the money ends…

Lord of the Rings and Santa Venn diagram

Kaitlyn Facista, of Tea with Tolkien, made a four-part Venn diagram that shows…

Visual exploration through emotional granularity

We often talk about emotions in more basic terms, such as disgust, joy,…

Carbon footprint in the city versus the suburbs

Bringing it down the Census tract level, Nadja Popovich, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad…

VIS 2022 talks are online

With the holidays just about here, I’m sure there’s nothing you’d rather do…

xkcd on optimal bowling metrics

xkcd charted optimal bowling in terms of aim, speed, spin, and weight. This…

Conway’s Game of Life in infinite space

Conway’s Game of Life is a zero-person game where cells in a grid…

Bodybuilder risks

The human body has its limits, so many bodybuilders take steroids to increase…

Information Graphic Visionaries delivered

Visualization still seems like a relatively new thing, but it has a history…

Gifts my true love gave to me over the 12 days of Christmas

From Reddit user neilrkaye. This is very important.…

Perfect seasons needed to get over .500 overall

Here’s a fun one from Philip Bump for The Washington Post. Bump simply…

Life cycle of coronavirus at the molecular level

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDsHUHrEuRM” /] From Maastricht University: What happens if a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters…

Tour through the greatest movies of all time

Every ten years since 1952, Sight and Sound, a British film magazine, has…

Asteroid simulator for before the big one hits

Knowing the impact of an asteroid falling in your city might not seem…

Who pays for Twitter

Twitter Blue is a subscription service from Twitter that primarily provided premium features…