Visualization

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

Where the clouds are the highest

Cloud formation depends on temperature and moisture levels, so in places of high…

Real space location of Star Trek and other science fiction

Star Trek and related might be fictional, but they usually reference real stars,…

Mapping Israel and Gaza attacks

The New York Times is mapping rocket strikes, attacks, and ongoing conflict in…

Following the path of the 2024 solar eclipse

There is going to be a solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The…

Tree rings to compare life expectancy in your state

The Washington Post goes with a tree ring metaphor to compare life expectancy…

Billion dollar natural disasters

For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…

Visual explanation of menstrual cycle length and variability

For the Apple Women’s Health Study, which uses cycle tracking data from iPhones…

Search the text in historical maps

The David Rumsey Map Collection has been home to tens of thousands of…

Loneliness, life satisfaction, and time

For The Pudding, Alvin Chang examines loneliness through the lens of individual responses…

Two maps with the same scale

When you compare two areas on a single map, it can be a…

Evolution of beer

Beer dates back thousands of centuries, but it was not the beer we…

Twitter slows competitor links

When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…

Cooling a city

Tall buildings in dense cities can trap heat and restrict air flow, which…

Evolution of Lego brick colors

Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…

Visualization to better see true values in data

For Scientific American, Jack Murtagh describes the importance of visualization in understanding the…

Very Expensive Maps

In the Very Expensive Maps podcast, cartographer Evan Applegate interviews other cartographers about…

Shifting causes of death over the decades

Saloni Dattani, for Our World in Data, used a set of heatmaps to…

Declining groundwater

The New York Times analyzed water levels across the country since 1920. In…