Visualization

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

When feelings of nostalgia peak

YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades…

Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball

To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which…

Energy surges due to solar storm

The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some…

Change in housing prices where you live

I don’t know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep…

Mapping Hacker News

Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments…

Visualization of flying into a black hole

Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space…

Shifting to batteries for electricity

To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…

Map of magnetic fields in the Milky Way

Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Villanova University…

Communal Plot, a shared coordinate space to see how your taste compares

PerThirtySix made a communal plot that asks for your opinion via scatterplot and…

Genetic algorithm car race thingy

From the oldie-but-goodie department, this fun program uses a genetic algorithm to drive…

Low risk for human bird flu transmission

For Reuters, Mariano Zafra, Anurag Rao, and Jon McClure describe how bird flu…

Historical cicada maps

It’s been over 200 years since the cicadas of Brood XIII and Brood…

Cicada brood timeline

The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two broods…

Limited progress towards a plan for planting 1 trillion trees

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1…

Welcome to the future of data reporting, in musical format

The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists…

xkcd: Alphabetical cartogram

A deeply insightful map from xkcd. See also: 19 maps that will blow…

Counts for pro-Palestinian college protests increasing

Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the…

Map of NHL player birth places

Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data…