Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
UK government org charts
When I think government structure, I tend to think in general overviews where…
Can’t find Iran on a map
Based on a Morning Consult/Politico survey, most people don’t know where Iran is:…
Scale of Australia bushfires shown with unit charts
Outside of Australia, it can be a challenge to get a grasp of…
Where the Australia fires are burning
The New York Times zoomed in on southeastern Australia where the fires have…
Visual guide for the fires in Australia
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda and Josh Holder provide a visual guide to…
Draw a ridgeline map showing elevation, for anywhere on Earth
Ridgeline charts or frequency trails use parallel lines that overlap on the fluctuations,…
Urban growth via satellite imagery
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…
One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones
A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…
Making invisible gas leaks visible
For The New York Times, Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi went to…
Where Christmas trees come from
For The Washington Post, Tim Meko and Lauren Tierney:
Before the 1930s, Christmas…
Color breakdown of Scientific American covers
For Scientific American, Nicholas Rougeux and Jen Christiansen show the shift in hues…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2019
As I do every year, I picked my ten favorite visualization projects. Here they are in no particular order.
How online school ratings are flawed
Standardized ratings are a challenge, because they often try to encapsulate many variables…
Using old ship logs as a window into the weather in the 1800s
For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…
Haikus generated based on your map location and OpenStreetMap data
Satellite Studio made a map thing that generates haikus based on OpenStreetMap data…
