Visualization

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

Check the frequency of salmonella in your chicken

The USDA recommends that you cook your chicken to at least 165°F to…

alt.VIS

The IEEE VIS 2021 conference is running virtually this week, and there’s a…

Bend the emissions curve

There has been progress since the Paris climate agreement in 2014, but there’s…

Mapping the probable heat around the world

Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…

Drought extent by region

For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…

Spending bill in a treemap box

Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat…

3-D rendering of Dixie fire smoke clouds

The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of…

Search every USPS mail route

I’m not sure how long this has been around, but the USPS has…

A view from the Moon’s south pole

NASA Goddard visualized the point of view from the south pole of the…

Treemap tour of political donations

The Digital Story Innovation Team for ABC News in Australia looked at political…

Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain

Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…

How the 3-point line changed basketball

Vox shows how the 3-point line is “breaking” the game. The basic math…

Possible cheating seen in a scatterplot

When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist:…

A data visualization magazine

Nightingale is a publication from Data Visualization Society that offers more depth for…

Reducing methane to slow climate change

We often hear about increased CO2 in the context of global warming. Hayley…

Comparing abortion limits in the U.S. against other countries

The Washington Post, in an effort that I’m sure took more energy and…

Visualizing time-based data

Zan Armstrong, Ian Johnson, and Mike Freeman for Observable wrote a guide on…

Heatmap of average IMDb ratings for all the shows

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