Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Comparison of terms and conditions lengths
Most of us don’t read the terms and conditions before we click on…
Tweeting a map of every Census tract in the United States
By Neil Freeman, the @everytract bot on Twitter, as the name suggests, is…
Mapping a diverse but segregated America
Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh for The Washington Post delve into diversity and…
A game to better understand the wisdom (and madness) of crowds
You’ve probably heard of the wisdom of crowds. The general idea, popularized by…
All the buildings in Manhattan in 3-D map
Taylor Baldwin mapped all of the buildings in Manhattan using a 3-D layout.…
Get all caught up with The Avengers using this timeline
It’s been a decade since the first Iron Man movie, and some 30…
Waiting Game, through the steps of asylum seekers
Sisi Wei for ProPublica and Nick Fortugno of Playmatics made a game to…
Umpire strike zone changes to finish games earlier
When watching baseball on television, we get the benefit of seeing whether a…
Shapes we make, seen from the sky
Look from the above at the shapes and geometry we use for cities,…
Algorithms drawn as IKEA furniture instructions
Learning algorithm steps can be a challenge when viewed only through code or…
Maps show spring arriving earlier
From Joshua Stevens at the NASA Earth Observatory:
But over the longer term,…
The Moon in 4k resolution
Based on data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA pieced together this…
Day of the year companies stop paying women
One way to think about gender pay gap is to imagine women receive…
A musical journey in 1939, retold with visualization
In 1939, John and Ruby Lomax traveled through ten southern states in three…
SimCity-like views using satellite imagery
Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…
Income mobility for different groups
Building on their previous visualization work on black boys dropping income levels in…
Average first leaf appearance, as animated map
The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…
Apollo 11 conversations on the way to the moon
As you can imagine, there was plenty of conversation between Earth and Apollo…
