Visualization

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

Cumulative 3-pointers for the Splash Brothers

Tonight is game six of the NBA Finals. If the Golden State Warriors…

Hands-On Data Visualization, an open-access book on interactive visualization for beginners

Hands-On Data Visualization, by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, is an open-access book…

Different languages, but similar information rates

Christophe Coupé and company analyzed speech rate (on the left) across different languages,…

Map of closest airports everywhere

This fun interactive map by William B. Davis shows you the ten closest…

Browser share over time

James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996…

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

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1m-KgEpoow” /] Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens…

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…