Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Olympians in your living room through augmented reality
Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…
Roger Federer career in rankings and wins
Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…
Scissors congruence
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…
Redistricting the congressional map with different goals
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
Bruises
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…
Finding fake followers
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…
Hand-drawn how-to instructions using zero words
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…
Release strategies for Oscar-nominated films
Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…
Is there something wrong with democracy?
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…
Surprise, the world was warmer again in 2017
According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…
Porn traffic before and after the missile alert in Hawaii
PornHub compared minute-to-minute traffic on their site before and after the missile alert…
Compare your fears against reality
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…
Mapping global accessibility to cities
From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…
Scale comparison of wildfires
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
Obliteration Room invited people to put dotted stickers everywhere
The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…
Where athletes in professional sports come from
Sports are growing more international with respect to the athletes. Gregor Aisch, Kevin…
