Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area
It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
Bees use social distancing
Research by M. Pusceddu et al. shows that honeybees use social distancing when…
Emissions and energy usage from Ethereum network
It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is…
Rapidly growing African cities
In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in…
Inflation in the context of age generations
When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago,…
Map made of candy corn to show corn production
With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…
All the provisions in the Build Back Better bill
For NYT’s The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui outlined all of the…
Euler diagram to illustrate base rate fallacy
Some people point out that vaccinated people are still hospitalized as a defense…
3-D modeling the french fry universe
What is the best french fry shape? Curly of course. But Chris Williams…
Increased maternal death in the United States
While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…
Job growth was underestimated
Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…
Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts
Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…
Partisan gap in Covid death counts
David Leonhardt for The New York Times looked at the partisan gap for…
Scale of ocean depths
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We know the oceans are deep, but it’s…
Palm oils and rainforest destruction
Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it…
