Visualization

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

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…

Sonification of Covid-19 rates

You’ve seen the line charts showing case rates over time. The focus is…

Millions of people experienced unhealthy air in 2020

NPR estimated how many people have experienced unhealthy air this year, largely in…

Exhibition of historical visualization

RJ Andrews, in collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Center, curated a collection…

Timeline of the President’s taxes

The New York Times got a hold of the President’s tax records for…

I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.

Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have a new book out called I am…

Covid-19 in your neighborhood

With recorded U.S. Covid-19 deaths passing the 200k mark, somehow the number still…

Trump’s criminal justice ad spending on Facebook

The Marshall Project contrasted ad spending on Facebook by Trump’s campaign against Joe…

Shift of Covid-19 deaths to medium and small cities

When this all started, Covid-19 was impacting large cities at a much higher…

Randomization to preserve anonymity

Adam Pearce and Ellen Jiang for Google’s PAIR, explain how granular data can…