Visualization

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

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,…

Data Sketches, the book

Data Sketches was a one-year visualization collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu…

Vaccine contracts

Bloomberg is tracking nine coronavirus vaccines around the world. In addition to the…

Your place in the vaccine line

Using estimates from the Surgo Foundation and Ariadne Labs, Stuart A. Thompson for…

Searching for Blue Moon ice cream

Daniel Huffman grew up with an ice cream flavor called Blue Moon. Where…

A game where you get to be a faceworker and mess with an AI system

Kyle McDonald, in collaboration with Greg Borenstein, Evelyn Masso, and Fei Lui, made…

Mapping 250,000 people

As we’ve talked about before, it can be hard to really understand the…

Fake faces created by AI and where this might be headed

It’s grown easier and easier to generate fake faces with AI. For The…

Where there are hospital staff shortages

Reporting for NPR, Sean McMinn and Selena Simmons-Duffins on staffing shortages: On data…

Why small gatherings can be dangerous too

A small gathering of 10 people or fewer can seem like a low-risk…