Visualization

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

Words used to describe men and women’s bodies in literature

Authors tend to focus on different body parts for men and women, and…

Where people are wearing masks

NYT’s The Upshot ran a survey through the data firm Dynata asking people…

Bitcoin scam, Twitter hacked

Twitter was hacked yesterday. Over a few hours, prominent accounts were tweeting that…

A million dollars vs. a billion visualized with a road trip

A million dollars. A billion dollars. The latter is 1,000 times more than…

Comparing the coronavirus to past deadly events

One way to estimate the impact of the coronavirus is to compare it…

Increase in cases since states reopened

Using the now all too familiar baseline chart, where all of the time…

Race and the virus

The New York Times obtained data on race and those affected by the…

Cases vs. testing

There have been assertions that increased case counts are all from increased testing.…

Coronavirus counts across Europe

Going with the shaded triangle peaks to show case counts and deaths, The…

Why time feels weird right now

For Reuters, Feilding Cage provides a series of interactive tidbits to demonstrate why…

Map shows where to go to get away from fireworks

Using a voronoi map, David Yanofsky for Quartz mapped the places in the…

Decade-long time-lapse of the sun

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking a picture of the sun every…

When the world shut down, seen through global flights

Lauren Tierney and William Neff for The Washington Post used a rotating globe…

Map of Covid-19 surge

Axios provides a straightforward state map showing the percentage change in the 7-day…

LEGO relief map

Cameron Bennett made a relief map of Idaho, completely out of LEGO bricks:…

How the coronavirus won in the United States

Using a wide array of sources, The New York Times shows how the…

Who is responsible for climate change?

Kurzgesagt, in collaboration with Our World in Data, tackle the question of who…

Gaps between black and white America

New York Times Opinion compared several demographics, such as unemployment and income, between…