Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Inside out map of the Grand Canyon
John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…
Build a parasite to block your digital assistant
Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…
One-year time-lapse of the weather
Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides…
Voronoi diagram from smooshing paint between glass
It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick percolating in there…
Time-lapse of all the wind in 2018
Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…
Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
Vintage map with modern 3-D elevation
This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…
List of visualization best-of-year lists, 2018
The end of a year is always a good time to look back…
Applying for a PhD program in visualization
Niklas Elmqvist provides a detailed guide for finding and a visualization PhD program:…
Context to the stock market rise and falls
The stock market is in a state. So finicky the past few months.…
Higher turnout for midterm elections
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2018
Visualization continues to mature and develop into a medium. There's less focus on visualization the tool and more focus on how to use the tools. That is a good thing.
Kernel density estimation explainer
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.…
Finding all of the trees in the world with machine learning
Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the…
Old Christmas songs get all the play time
Jon Keegan scraped the playlist from the local radio station’s all-Christmas playlist for…
Make a figure-ground diagram using OpenStreetMap data
In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…
