Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Everything in the universe
In this video, Dominic Walliman attempts to illustrate and explain all of the…
Scroll, scroll, scroll through the depths of the ocean
The oceans are deep. But how deep and what’s down there? Neal Agarwal…
Compare your city’s air pollution to the rest of the world
High air pollution can lead to serious health risks, but you can’t usually…
Fashion runway color palette
From Google Arts & Culture:
We came together with The Business of Fashion…
Traveling Salesman art
Robert Bosch likes to use the Traveling Salesman Problem to draw famous portraits…
2,774 miles traveled by a lone wolf
From the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a map shows the travels of a lone…
How parents spend time with their kids
For Quartz, Dan Kopf and Jenny Anderson on how time spent with kids…
