Visualization

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

Rise of the summer sequel

For The New York Times, Keith Collins shows the growing popularity of summer…

New abortion restrictions by state, since 2011

For FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Gus Wezerek categorized and mapped new abortion restrictions…

Mapping politically polarized cities

Rachael Dottle, for FiveThirtyEight, looked for political differences in cities and ranked them,…

Game of Thrones viewer ratings by season

The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…

Inverted world map

Frans Block wondered what the world would look like if water and land…

More candidates and earlier

For Bloomberg, Lauren Leatherby and Paul Murray describe the heightened eagerness to enter…

Interactive explainer for how disease and ideas spread through a network

Kevin Simler uses interactive simulations to explain how things — ideas, disease, memes…

Sprawlball, an in-depth look into the evolution of modern basketball

If you’ve seen a basketball shot chart in the past few years, it…

Pitch speed distribution, a decrease with age

Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…

Growing similarity in global diet

Diet around the world is growing more similar. National Geographic charted estimates of…

Amount of fish to raise a big fish

Raising living things requires resources. In the case of fish, it requires more…

Remixing the grocery receipt with data visualization

In prototyping mode, Susie Lu incorporated visualization into the common receipt from the…

Game of Thrones books versus television series

I think I started watching Game of Thrones around the fourth season (my…

Chart chooser based on data format

There are many chart types to choose from, which is great, because there’s…

Maps of natural disasters and extreme weather

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko mapped floods, tornados, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, wildfires,…

A more detailed view of the Mueller Report

By now we’ve all seen the zoomed out thumbnail view of the Mueller…

What happened at Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame in Paris, France was on fire. The New York Times describes what…

Comparing the potential cost of Medicare for everyone

For The Upshot, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz, consulted economists to…