Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Assessment of the Covid-19 dashboards
Researchers evaluated 158 Covid-19 dashboards, assessing design, implementation, and usefulness. Marie Patino for…
Sand mining viewed from above
Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, but sand mining has changed its…
A flag planted for every Covid-19 death
In fall 2020, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg planted a flag for each American who…
Using rates for more relatable Covid-19 numbers
With millions of Covid-19 deaths worldwide, and hundreds of thousands in the US,…
Data visualization activities for kids
Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Get the kids started…
Humorous charts to organize thoughts
When I’m feeling confused about what’s going on around me, I gravitate towards…
Beautiful News, a book charting the good things in the world
From David McCandless and team, who you might know from such books as…
Black neighborhoods split by highways
Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles for Bloomberg on how urban highways…
Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated
The CDC released a chart that shows case, hospitalization, and death rates for…
How the demographics of your neighborhood changed
The San Francisco Chronicle compares demographics in your neighborhood in 2020 against 2010.…
Data recorded in fabric quilt
Kim Moran-Jones quilted temperature minima and maxima in the UK, along with Covid-19…
New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…
Tracking wildfires in the west
Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times…
AI-generated movie posters
Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The…
