Visualization

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

Queuing systems and crowd engineering

There’s a science to getting thousands of people to wait in line without…

Making illicit fentanyl

The process of making fentanyl might not be as complicated as one would…

Scrolling map on receipt paper

Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year.…

Embroidered landscapes

Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above…

Illustrated guides to Olympic sports

Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the…

How Olympic athletes combat the heat

A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…

Clean energy from fracking

We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington…

Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting

The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to…

Cryptocurrency-funded politics

Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…

Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model

Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…

Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers

Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…

Where immigrants in the U.S. came from

A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…

Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films

Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our…

Famine prevalence in different countries

Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…

Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires. Calculating…

Designing EV sounds

Vox explains the process of designing artificial car sounds for electric vehicles to…

1,300 allegations against New Hampshire Youth Development Center

In a collaboration between NHPR and the Pudding, Jason Moon and Russell Samora…

Accuracy of temperature forecasts where you live

You’ve probably noticed that the weather forecast can change a lot for predictions…