Visualization

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

Heatmap of average IMDb ratings for all the shows

Inspired by a graphic on Reddit, Jim Vallandingham expanded the format for all…

How Facebook disappeared from the internet

Cloudflare describes how things looked from their point of view the day that…

Visual guide for protecting your home from wildfire

Aaron Steckelberg and Tik Root for The Washington Post provide a visual guide…

Mapping climate change in the Arctic

UnstableGround is a project from the Woodwell Climate Research Center that focuses on…

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Assessment of the Covid-19 dashboards

Researchers evaluated 158 Covid-19 dashboards, assessing design, implementation, and usefulness. Marie Patino for…

Sand mining viewed from above

Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, but sand mining has changed its…

A flag planted for every Covid-19 death

In fall 2020, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg planted a flag for each American who…

Using rates for more relatable Covid-19 numbers

With millions of Covid-19 deaths worldwide, and hundreds of thousands in the US,…

Data visualization activities for kids

Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Get the kids started…

Humorous charts to organize thoughts

When I’m feeling confused about what’s going on around me, I gravitate towards…

Beautiful News, a book charting the good things in the world

From David McCandless and team, who you might know from such books as…

Black neighborhoods split by highways

Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles for Bloomberg on how urban highways…

Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated

The CDC released a chart that shows case, hospitalization, and death rates for…

How the demographics of your neighborhood changed

The San Francisco Chronicle compares demographics in your neighborhood in 2020 against 2010.…

Data recorded in fabric quilt

Kim Moran-Jones quilted temperature minima and maxima in the UK, along with Covid-19…

Atlas of the Invisible

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti teamed up for another book of maps, Atlas…

Black mortality gap

Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…