Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Celebrity name spelling test
Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…
Segregation compared during work and at home
Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland,…
Searching for the saddest punt ever, with statistics
For SB Nation, Jon Bois takes a statistical deep dive in the search…
How fast emissions would reduce if other plans were adopted
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…
French fry power rankings
Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries.…
Opportunity rover’s path on Mars
After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…
Generate a noise field from an image
Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using…
Scale of Star Wars characters and ships
It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode…
Evolution of the periodic table of elements
As more elements were discovered, the table grew and changed layout. For Science…
Distorting geography to show train travels
Jan Willem Tulp visualized train travel times using distance and color as an…
Average view of Earth from space
Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer…
Evolution of the alphabet
Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the…