Visualization

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

Oceans that all the rivers drain

Rivers drain into oceans. Grasshopper Geography color-coded the rivers in the world by…

Learning animal languages with AI

Financial Times highlights how researchers are using AI to try to learn what…

Where restaurants serve Asian cuisines in the U.S.

You can find Asian restaurants in most places in the United States, but…

Where it warmed the most in the world

Earth got its hottest year on record in 2023. Based on data from…

Snow drought

A warming climate has meant less snow in the northern hemisphere, which is…

When movies become musicals and then movies again

For The Washington Post, Hanna Zakharenko charted all the movies that were adapted…

Boeing panel that blew off during flight

A refrigerator-sized panel popped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 during the ascent…

Map with a receipt printer

Aaron Koelker used a receipt printer to print a six-foot long map of…

Repairing Panama Canal water levels

For Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Michael D. McDonald report on the efforts to…

Oppenheimer movie timeline

By Reddit user Pitazboras, a movie timeline for Oppenheimer with running time on…

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2023

Data continues on its upwards trajectory and with it comes the importance of visualization. Many charts were made in 2023. These are my ten favorites from the year.

A phone charger that only works when you recharge yourself

Recharge, an art installation by Dries Depoorter, uses a system that detects when…

Breaking down the holiday movie formula

NYT’s The Upshot looked at 424 holiday movies released by the Hallmark and…

Tracking operations in an online scam labor camp

Neo Lu was scammed into a labor camp. In an effort to escape…

Scale of all the things, compared to you

Kurzgesagt illustrates the scale of the tiniest of things and the biggest of…

A hotter year, again

This year, 2023, was the hottest year on record. For Reuters, Gloria Dickie,…

Generative plants

Generate your own plant with Max Richter’s interactive. Adjust leaf shape, density, and…

World map of illustrated animals

During a three-year span, Anton Thomas illustrated a world map of 1,642 animals…