Visualization

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

Gerry, a font based on gerrymandered congressional districts

Gerry uses congressional district boundaries as letters. Hahahahaha. Oh wait.…

Natural selection simulation

Using blobbies with varying traits such as size, speed, and food gathering ability,…

Peak accommodation type at national parks

When staying at national parks, some people choose a tent. Some bring an…

Maps of the movies and their characters

Andrew DeGraff painted maps that show the geography in movies and their characters’…

Blanket pattern visualizes baby’s sleep data

Seung Lee collected sleep data for his son’s first year. Then he knitted…

Isotype, a picture language

Jason Forrest delves into the history of a single Isotype and a bit…

Searching for the densest square kilometer in different cities

Based on data from Gridded Population of the World, geographer Garrett Dash Nelson…

How practitioners learned data visualization

Visualization is still a relatively young field, so people learn about and how…

Airport runway orientation reveals wind patterns

Airport runways orient certain directions that correlate with wind direction in the area.…

Exploration of players’ shot improvement in the NBA

Wondering whether if a player’s shot improves over the course of his career,…

Modern reproduction of an 1868 catalog of flower illustrations

Nicholas Rougeux, who has a knack and the patience to recreate vintage works…

Data-driven hipster reading list

When it comes to reading lists, we usually look for what’s popular, because…

Atlas of all the moons in our solar system

National Geographic went all out on their atlas of moons. Space. Orbits. Rotating…

Animated maps of seasonal Earth

As you might expect, NASA collects a lot of data, and much of…

Cost of a Census undercount

The citizenship question for the upcoming Census is still stuck in limbo. One…

Guide to manipulated video

I have a feeling we’re in for a lot of manipulated videos as…

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: You might be…