Visualization

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

Bugs that live on you, in AR

I really like what The New York Times has been doing with augmented…

Tree visualization to represent texting interactions

Shirley Wu used a tree metaphor to represent the interactions of five individuals…

Graveyards of America mapped

It’s Halloween. Joshua Stevens mapped all the graveyards: Right away I was struck…

Interactive comic to remember things better

In a time we commit less to memory and rely more on technology…

Visualizing science

Jen Christiansen spoke about her extensive experience as a graphics editor for Scientific…

Tree of Life

From Evogeneao: This Tree of Life diagram is based primarily on the evolutionary…

Geography of voter turnout

Based on data from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, The Washington…

Building statues of hope in augmented reality

Accurat, in partnership with the Google News Initiative, built an augmented reality app…

A closer look at the U.S.-Mexico border

The Washington Post provides a flyover view of the barriers at the U.S.-Mexico…

Mapping all the buildings

A few months back, Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset that included the estimated…

Mapping predominant race block by block

Based on data from the Census Bureau, National Geographic mapped predominant race in…

Create your own visual journal of data

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec continue on their path of Dear Data with…

News homepage design overview

As you click through the news, you can probably almost always figure out…

Measuring the varied sentiments of good and bad words

There was a survey a while back that asked people to provide a…

Inside Hurricane Maria, a 3-D perspective

This 3-D view inside Hurricane Maria, from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA’s…

Mapping opportunity for children, based on where they grew up

Opportunity Atlas, a collaboration between Opportunity Insights and the Census Bureau, is the…

Coral-like cities to show road networks

Craig Taylor from Ito World used a coral metaphor to visualize road networks…

Constructing charts and graphs

Jeffrey Heer, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, provides an…