Visualization

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

Halloween logicals

From Kaz Miyamol, these Venn diagrams present very important information about Halloween.…

Vintage relief maps

Muir Way updates vintage relief maps with a third dimension. Pretty. The above…

Fires in the west and climate change

This is some advanced mapping and scrollytelling from the Washington Post. The piece…

Decision tree for the presidential election result

While we’re on the topic of election scenarios, Kerry Rodden provides a radial…

Interactive data essays on climate change

In their second issue, Parametric Press focuses on climate change with a set…

Data visualization in virtual reality

Virtual reality puts you in a digital world that can feel like a…

More fire weather days coming

It’s been smoky this season. Based on research from Michael Goss et al.,…

Lifelines

Using estimates from a report by the Well Being Trust and the Robert…

Covid-19 cases and state partisanship

From Dan Goodspeed, the bar chart race is back. The length of the…

Visual tour through the technology hype cycle

The Gartner hype cycle is a graphical representation of where certain technologies are…

Exploration of 12 timelines along Sunset Boulevard

In 1966, artist Ed Ruscha published Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which…

Reconstructing protests in Minneapolis using hundreds of livestreams

From a distance, it’s difficult to build an understanding of the scale and…

NBA playoff win probabilities, animated over time

FiveThirtyEight publishes win probabilities for NBA games throughout the season. During the playoffs,…

Covid-19, the third leading cause of death

For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of…

Breaking down the $4 trillion bailout

Using a straightforward treemap, The Washington Post looks at where the $4 trillion…

Presidential Plinko

To visualize uncertainty in election forecasts, Matthew Kay from Northwestern University used a…

Shape of unemployment

For The New York Times, Ella Koeze looks at the various types of…

Coronavirus infection timeline

The timeline for a new infection isn’t the same for everyone. Some never…