Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington…
Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to…
Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers
Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…
Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films
Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our…
Famine prevalence in different countries
Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…
Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires.
Calculating…
Designing EV sounds
Vox explains the process of designing artificial car sounds for electric vehicles to…
1,300 allegations against New Hampshire Youth Development Center
In a collaboration between NHPR and the Pudding, Jason Moon and Russell Samora…
Accuracy of temperature forecasts where you live
You’ve probably noticed that the weather forecast can change a lot for predictions…
UK party gains and winners
Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the…
Conservatives lose UK election by a lot
For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the…
Visually navigate code as stars and galaxies
Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through.…
Seeing the world after Google Streetview
Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame…
Shrinking down to the size of an atom
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In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things,…
Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve
The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…
