Visualization

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

Rise of a variant in the U.K.

As you likely know, there are coronavirus variants around the world. Reuters mapped…

Guess who the neighborhood voted for

NYT’s The Upshot has a quiz that puts you in a neighborhood via…

Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere

The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So…

Steer through the Suez Canal

To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the…

Analysis of color names used with makeup

For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and…

What if a giant banana was orbiting Earth

yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same…

Mapping all of the voters

In what seems to have become a trend of making more and more…

Evolution of Chinese names

For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…

Analysis of skin tones in beauty ads on Instagram

For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk and Marc Bain analyzed skin tones that appeared in…

Pandemic timeline as animated dot density map

As a lead-in and backdrop to a timeline of the past year by…

Facebook feed comparison between groups

As part of their Citizen Browser project to inspect Facebook, The Markup shows…

Average stimulus aid, by household size and income

Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, reporting for NYT’s The Upshot, plotted the average…

Seeing CO2 is a playable data visualization

Seeing CO2, by design studio Extraordinary Facility, is a playable data visualization that…

Bird migration forecast maps

BirdCast, from Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shows current…

Bats and outbreaks

For Reuters, Julia Janicki and Simon Scarr, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, show…

Cooling Gulf Stream

This is quite a dive by Moises Velasquez-Manoff and Jeremy White for The…

Schools should open their windows for ventilation

As schools begin to reopen, The New York Times illustrates why classrooms should…

Social distancing when we’re back in the office

For Reuters, Sarah Slobin and Feilding Cage imagine life back at the office…