Visualization

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

An Incalculable Loss

The New York Times used their full front page to list 1,000 names…

They Were Us.

This is The New York Times front page for Sunday, May 24, 2020.…

Moves towards reopening the country

Using anonymized cellphone data from SafeGraph, Reade Levinson and Chris Canipe for Reuters…

Reopening states and how they currently measure up

States are reopening. Some seem ready, and some less so. Lena V. Groeger…

Households that lost income

This straightforward grid map by Danielle Alberti for Axios shows the percentage of…

Where unemployment benefits are higher than lost wages

Economists at the University of Chicago analyzed unemployment benefits from the CARES act…

LEGO normal distribution animation

Let’s just animate all statistical concepts with LEGO from now on: My daughter…

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…