Visualization

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

Bitcoin power usage

You might have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity. More than…

New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery

After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…

Tracking wildfires in the west

Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times…

AI-generated movie posters

Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The…

Repulsive curves

Chris Yu, Henrik Schumacher, and Keenan Crane from Carnegie Mellon University are working…

Lightning algorithm

Matt Henderson on Numberphile shows off a “lightning algorithm” which is actually a…

Diversity within the Asian population

Robert Gebeloff, Denise Lu and Miriam Jordan for The New York Times looked…

Inflation isn’t that exciting

For NYT Opinion, Josh Bivens and Stuart A. Thompson argue that you don’t…

NBA carry jobs

With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…

How vaccines can make a difference with the Delta variant

We see percentages for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and people can easily misinterpret…

Multiracial people counted in the census

Using unit charts, NPR shows the number of people who identify with each…

Race and ethnicity map of dots

CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the…

Shift in white population vs. people of color

The New York Times go with the angled arrows to show the shifts…

Maps of racial population change

Using their peaks and valleys metaphor, The Washington Post shows the shift in…

Procedurally generated fish drawings

Lingdong Huang’s project fishdraw seems straightforward on the surface. You go to the…

How countries ranked by Olympic medal counts

Ranking countries by medal count change depending on how much value you place…

Where America is expanding in developed areas

Zach Levitt and Jess Eng for The Washington Post mapped newly developed areas…

Visualizing GitHub repos

Most people are familiar with the file-and-folder view. Sort alphabetically, date, or file…