Visualization

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

Melting popsicles to visualize a heat wave

Many European countries are experience record high temperatures, so The Washington Post used…

Rhythm in plant cells

Researchers are studying the electrical rhythms in plant cells. I’m not sure what…

Country-wide housing shortage

Emily Badger and Eve Washington for NYT’s The Upshot show how the housing…

Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.

As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…

Empty school buses as a representation of student lives lost

The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…

Data Visualization Humble Bundle

There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Get twenty-two…

Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool

The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…

Income ladder for the children of immigrants

You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…

A lot of galaxies

NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…

Where there is more livestock than people in the United States

The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…

Money distribution for streaming music

From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…

Shrinking middle-class

Income distribution continues to stretch on the high end and squish on the…

Absurd trolly problems

You’ve probably heard of the trolley problem, a thought experiment that imagines a…

Imagining carbon food labels

By purchasing certain foods, we make decisions about the carbon footprint from the…

Wildfires caused by fireworks

It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means there will be…

Analysis of compound curse words used on Reddit

As you know, Reddit is typically a sophisticated place of kind and pleasant…

Football field to show population change in the UK

The Office for National Statistics for the UK published an interactive to show…

Visualising Knowledge

Visualising Knowledge is an open book from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, based…