Visualization

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

Voting guide for your state

The Washington Post provides another straightforward voting guide, based on where you live…

Disappearing animals as a matrix of dots

Reddit user WhiteCheeks used dot density to show population counts of various animals.…

Math behind wearing masks

The math behind wearing a mask can seem unintuitive at times. Minute Physics…

Design your own election scenario

As we have seen, small shifts in voting behavior of various demographic groups…

Red-blue electoral map and the green-gray in satellite imagery

For NYT’s The Upshot, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra looked at how the…

Choose your own election outcome

The election is full of what-ifs, and the result changes depending on which…

How to vote in each state

Each state is handling mail-in voting in a certain way with varying timelines…

Time for last-minute mail voting

The New York Times provides a state-by-state chart timeline for voting by mail:…

Minutes spoken at the Republican Convention

The New York Times provides a breakdown of minutes spoken at the Republican…

Dying mid-range mall

Bloomberg looks at how retail struggles might kill the middle-of-the-road malls before this…

How long before there is gender equality in the U.S. House and Senate

For The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha asks, “What will it take to achieve…

Racist housing policy from 1930s and present-day temperature highs

Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich for The New York Times show how policies…

Visits to businesses compared year-over-year in each state

Businesses are still seeing visits mostly down compared to last year, which shouldn’t…

Excess deaths, by race

It’s clear that Covid-19 has affected groups differently across the United States. By…

Analyzing the topics of cable TV news

From the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University, the results from an analysis…

Vote-by-mail volume compared against years past

The volume of mail-in ballots will likely be higher than usual this year,…

California wildfires map

Los Angeles Times provides a California-specific map of the current wildfires to stay…

Fire and smoke map

With the rush of wildfires in California, governor Gavin Newsom declared (another) state…