Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Hurricane Florence trackers
Hurricane Florence is forecast to touch down Thursday night or Friday, and what’s…
Experience a soccer game through crowd noise
Sports visualization and analysis tends to focus on gameplay — where the players…
Hotter days where you were born
It’s getting hotter around the world. The New York Times zooms in on…
Algorithmic art shows what the machine sees
Tom White is an artist who uses neural networks to draw abstract pictures…
World map shows aerosol billowing in the wind
Using a mathematical model based on satellite data, NASA shows an estimate of…
Synesthesia used to paint numbers through color
Lucy Engelman has synesthesia, which is a perceptual response where one sensory pathway…
Visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations
Peter Beshai was tasked with visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations. He arrived…
World Cup play activity visualized like wind maps
A fun experiment by Neil Charles that used the aesthetics of wind maps…
A visual analysis of jean pockets and their lack of practicality
Frustrated with the size of pockets on women’s pants, Jan Diehm and Amber…
More wildfires than ever
Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News delves into the increasing number of wildfires in…
Scale of the California wildfires
The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…
A transforming river seen from above
The Padma River in Bangladesh is constantly shifting its 75-mile path. Joshua Stevens…
Aerial view of sheepdogs herding sheep
Sometimes the visualization takes care of itself. Photographer Tim Whittaker filmed sheepdogs herding…
Charting the similarity of summer songs
Popular summer songs have had a bubbly, generic feel to them the past…
Visualizations using Play-Doh
We usually visualize data on computers, because it’s where the data exists and…
Scale model shows how levees increase flooding
Levees are intended to prevent flooding in the areas they are built, but…
