Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Hours of daylight mapped as a function of latitude and time of year
Reddit user harpalss animated hours of day light by latitude and day of…
Quietest highway route in each state
Geotab made a rough estimate of the quietest route in each state, based…
KPI overload
From Tom Fishburne, the Marketoonist. Maybe a dashboard isn’t the answer you’re looking…
Map of nighttime lights normalized by population
You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…
Paying for Elizabeth Warren’s proposed policies
Elizabeth Warren has big plans, and they would cost a lot with a…
Daylight Saving Time gripe assistant tool
In a follow-up to a map from a few years back, Andy Woodruff…
