Visualization

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

A moving drumbeat, explained visually

When you first learn to play music, a lot of the instruction is…

Map of donut federations

In a fun one by Alyssa Fowers, for The Washington Post’s Department of…

Rights at risk at the U.S. Supreme Court level

For ProPublica, Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernandez evaluated records of sitting justices to…

Scale model of the universe’s timeline

To better understand the scale of time and feed your existential dread, Wylie…

More hiring, because more quitting

This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem…

A guessing game for place and time

Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. TimeGuessr shows you…

Shortening baseball games

Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over…

How teenagers’ job ambitions have changed

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), run by the OECD since 2000,…

A geolocation game in the format of Wordle

With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The…

A portrait of your stolen identity in data breaches

You’ve probably heard about big data breaches over the years. They’re in the…

Swipe left or right to cut the national debt

Cutting the national debt is a complex process that involves a lot more…

How much AI will affect your job

Research by Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj, and Robert Seamans provides estimates for…

Eurovision winners past and present

The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest finished up this past weekend with the winning…

A visual story about kimchi and family

Alvin Chang, for The Pudding, illustrated the search for his kimchi, which is…

Scale of billions of dollars in Australia’s budget

To show the scale of tax cuts and Australia’s budget, ABC News takes…

Population surrounded by interstate highways

Filed under random but fun calculations, Alasdair Rae estimated the number of people…

Mapping where trees will grow

As the climate changes, the places that different types of trees will grow…

Quantum computing visual explainer

Quantum computing promises a higher level of processing power over current computers, but…