Visualization

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

How experts use disease modeling to help inform policymakers

Harry Stevens and John Muyskens for The Washington Post put you in the…

Map shows US typefaces named after cities in their geographic location

For The Statesider, Andy Murdock wondered how many typefaces are named after American…

Global warming color stripes, as decorative conversation starter

Ed Hawkins, who you might recognize from charts such as spiraling global temperature…

Climate change displayed, with shower tiles

Based on a chart by Ed Hawkins, the shower wall of Gretchen Goldman…

Change in Instacart searches after the coronavirus

For Bloomberg, Ellen Huet and Lizette Chapman reported on the jolt for Instacart…

Bread Scheduler

Is bread-making still a thing, or is that so two weeks ago? If…

First unified geologic map of the moon

The USGS released a unified geologic map of the moon on a 1:5,000,000-scale…

Who should receive care first, an ethical dilemma

At greater disparities between low resources and high volumes of sick people, doctors…

Possible vaccine timelines

It’d be great if we could conjure a vaccine or a “cure” seemingly…

Coronavirus testing accuracy

Medical tests do not always provide certain results. Quartz illustrated this with the…

Playable simulations to decide what happens next

The timelines keep shifting and people are getting antsy for many valid (and…

Pretend mall map to show at-risk brands

Many brands that were at-risk before the pandemic or ran with low profit…

Text from press briefings categorized

The New York Times went through the words used during press briefings, pulling…

Excess deaths

We cannot know the true number of coronavirus-related deaths. Maybe it’s because of…

Search trends during the pandemic

As you would imagine, what we search for online shifted over the past…

Visualization helping us during the pandemic

Hayleigh Moore for the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland…

How We Reopen

Vi Hart, along with a group of experts from different political backgrounds and…

People of the Pandemic, a game that simulates social distancing in your ZIP Code

People of the Pandemic is a game that lets you choose how many…