Visualization

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

History of heat records in major U.S. cities

Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding are tracking heat records in…

Garbage in space

There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them…

Maps of noise

Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and…

Calculating the new cost of your summer road trip

With gas prices a lot higher than usual, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and…

Examination of songs after virality on TikTok

Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens when a song…

Interest levels for political issues mapped

To estimate public interest in the many political issues across the United States,…

Election modeling explained

In election reporting, there’s a gap between real-time results and final results, so…

U.S. still the outlier for gun homicide rate

This chart from The New York Times, based on estimates from Our World…

Children exposed to school shootings

The Washington Post maintains a database of school shootings (which is sad in…

Final texts

Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer, for NYT Opinion, approached the one-million mark for Covid deaths…

Shrinking war mapped

The war in Ukraine continues, but the scale and objects appear to have…

Generative sea creatures

Cindermedusae by Marcin Ignac is “a generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures.” I’m…

Lives cut short by Covid

Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro, for The Washington Post, used the stories of…

Nuclear winter explained visually

Neil Halloran, known for his documentary films that lean strongly on data visualization,…

Behind the million

Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu, for The Washington Post, used a combination unit…

Reaching 1 million deaths

The New York Times narrated the path to one million Covid deaths in…

Inflation based on your spending

We’ve been hearing a lot about inflation rates lately on a national scale.…

Chart used as drink label

For Swee Kombucha, Bedow used a stacked chart as a food label to…