Visualization

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

Modernized version of a mid-19th century encylopedia

Between 1849 and 1851, J.G. Heck published a 10-part encyclopedia called Iconographic Encyclopædia…

Past redlining still seen in the present

In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to…

Figure skating animated jumps

Figure skater Nathan Chen set a world record with his performance in the…

Improving electric vehicle adoption rates

Gas-powered vehicles contribute a big part of total carbon production, so to get…

Bubble tea combinations, a visual breakdown

Walk into a boba shop and usually you’ll see a large menu that…

Accuracy of groundhog weather prediction

For FiveThirtyEight, Simran Parwani and Kaleigh Rogers compared Groundhog Day predictions against actual…

Charts showing Tom Brady’s standout career

Tom Brady announced his retirement from the National Football League, which ends a…

Crypto volatility charts

One of the attractions of crypto is that values can swing into the…

Diversity of federal judge picks, compared by president

Adrian Blanco for The Washington Post used squares connected at the corners to…

A game to gerrymander your party to power

Ella Koeze, Denise Lu, and Charlie Smart for The New York Times made…

Questioning Novak Djokovic’s Covid tests, based on data

Tennis player Novak Djokovic is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, and as a…

Chicken egg color spectrum

Eggs aren’t always white, which is oddly calming in this photo by way…

Scale of the Tonga eruption

Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of…

How N95 masks work

In efforts to reduce further spread of the virus, the US is set…

Death rates by vaccination booster status

Our World in Data continues their important work on providing and showing up-to-date…

Analytics for U.S. government websites

With the announcement of free Covid-19 tests through the United States Postal Service,…

Global ripple effect from underwater volcano

An underwater volcano erupted about 40 miles off the coast of the main…

A visual and audio tour of sound at Nap Nap Swamp

When I think swamp noise, I imagine a blob of sound that’s some…