Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Famous chess matches visualized as 3-D wireframes
Imagine points for each piece on a chessboard. They move to x-y positions…
Visual catalog of Isotype examples
Isotype, or International System of Typographic Picture Education, is a picture language used…
Illustrated engineering in everyday objects
Mechanical Pencil is a project by Bryan Macomber that illustrates the mechanical bits…
Mysteries of women’s clothing sizes
The challenges continue for women who want clothes that fit properly. For the…
Map of countries aligning with China
Using an analysis from Focaldata, the Guardian used the angled arrow approach to…
Geopolitical axis between the United States and China
Focaldata calculated United Nations voting patterns by country, relative to the United States…
Invalidated tariffs
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the administration’s “emergency” tariffs to be illegal. This…
Maps show not enough electricity in Cuba
For Bloomberg, Krishna Karra and Stephen Wicary map blackouts in Cuba due to…
Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune report on the spike of claims over the…
Jeffrey Epstein’s network via 1.4m emails
With the most recent Epstein release, the Economist collaborated with the folks who…
Dinosaurs, not dinosaurs
xkcd drops the knowledge with a proper classification for the stapler. The pairwise…
Searchable database of unregulated political contributions
ProPublica updated their explorer for money flowing into 527s.
Every year, hundreds of…
Composite ski race to show 0.04-second win
In the women’s downhill, Breezy Johnson won gold with a time of 1…
10k fewer STEM PhDs employed by the federal government
Science analyzed employment data from the Office of Personnel Management to calculate the…
Network map of Bluesky users
Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow…
Mechanics of the Quad God’s quadruple axel
Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin earned the nickname “Quad God” for all his…
Access to Winter Olympic sports near you
While it’s easy to go out for a run in most places, finding…
