Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Pollution exposure plotted, a comparison between two kids’ day
The New York Times measured pollution exposure during the day for two kids…
Mapping disappearing beaches in Hawaii
Ash Ngu for ProPublica and Sophie Cocke for Honolulu Star-Advertiser show the harm…
Reconstructing the killing of Breonna Taylor
The New York Times reconstructed the night. Based on a collection of court…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2020
It's been a year. We saw a lot of charts. These are the best ones.
Evolution of coronavirus strains
Reuters looked at how seven main strains of the virus evolved around the…
Who catches the most fish
Using data from Global Fishing Watch, Hayley Warren and Ian Wishart for Bloomberg…
1 in 5 prisoners had Covid-19, a grid map
The Marshall Project and The Associated Press report on the Covid-19 rates in…
Tracking world’s biggest iceberg
The world’s biggest iceberg, A68a, is on track to crash into a remote…
Basketball court designed as a national park map
Kirk Goldsberry, whose basketball charts you might recognize, made the Naismith International Park…
Infrared to show air particles from your talk hole
I’m sure you know this already, but just in case, air particles come…
Charting and ranking apocalyptic events
For Domain of Science, Dominic Walliman attempts to chart all of the deadly…
Visualizing 16th century letter correspondence of the Tudor government
Kim Albrecht, Ruth Ahnert, and Sebastian Ahnert visualized the network of communications over…
Where ICUs are near capacity
The New York Times mapped the seven-day average of ICU bed occupancy rates:…
Bill Nye on masks, with a map and some props
Talking about the effectiveness of masks on TikTok, Bill Nye uses a map…
Interactive explainer for how cameras and lenses work
We use our cameras all of the time, and it almost seems like…
Defining “essential worker” to distribute vaccine
Matthew Conlen, in an article by Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman for NYT,…