Visualization

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

Internationalization of K-Pop

K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…

Basketball globe

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…

Map of job gains and losses

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…

Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor

To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…

Air Quality Stripes

In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a…

Scammed out of life savings, a line chart

Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little,…

Maps of climate tipping points

The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will…

Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians

Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a…

Meat industry olympic chart

Speaking of data projects in unexpected places, David Mora repurposed one of my…

Sun vs. Moon, a game kind of

Neal Agarwal made a game of sorts where you either click for the…

One million screenshots of the web’s homepages in a single layout

One Million Screenshots, by Urlbox, is a collection of 1,048,576 homepage screenshots in…

Uncertain risk behind climate change models

To demonstrate the level of uncertainty in using climate forecasting models, Bloomberg compared…

Run speeds in the men’s 100-meter race

Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter, but he started as the slowest runner…

Best NBA players in the Olympics, by country since the 1992 Dream Team

In 1992, when the Dream Team dominated basketball in the Olympics, the best…

Olympic medal tracker variations

As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages…

Scale of dragons from House of the Dragon

Dragons are pretty big, I guess. (Please let me know if you know…

Two kinds of bar charts

Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first…

Emotional overlap Venn diagrams

I’m hearing murmurs that the Venn diagram is making a comeback. Six Seconds…