Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Atlas of all the moons in our solar system
National Geographic went all out on their atlas of moons. Space. Orbits. Rotating…
Cost of a Census undercount
The citizenship question for the upcoming Census is still stuck in limbo. One…
Wikipedia views and every line of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…
A view on despair
Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers:
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Scale of the Hong Kong protest
You know those sped up videos where there’s a long line for something…
Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies
For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…
Increasing ocean temperatures, decreasing ice
For National Geographic, Kennedy Elliot made a series of heatmaps that show the…
The role of cartography in early global explorations
For Lapham’s Quarterly, Elizabeth Della Zazzera turns back the clock to maps used…
What to expect at data visualization job interviews
Krist Wongsuphasawat, who recently interviewed for a healthy helping of visualization jobs, outlines…
Mapping Bob Ross
Fathom Information Design recently made tools to find patterns in documents of text.…
Map of the most popular people replacing the cities they lived in
For The Pudding, Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg used Wikipedia pageviews to replace…
Jeopardy! winners making chart jokes
James Holzhauer is on a record-breaking Jeopardy! win streak. It’s not so much…
Charts as a medium for expression
Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…
Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs
Vox delves into why Ls and Rs often get replaced by Asian speakers…
Getting to zero coal in Britain
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda shows the decrease in coal usage for power…
