Visualization

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

Senators and Reps whose voting doesn’t quite match the constituent’s

I know, it’s only April 2017, but some senators and representatives have some…

Finding the craft beer capital of America

You had me at craft beer. Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding looks for…

New images of Earth at night

NASA just released a composite map of the world at night using satellite…

Climate Change Coloring Book

The Climate Change Coloring Book by Brian Foo makes data tactile and interactive.…

A century of facial hair styles

Facial hair styles change with the years. One year it might be more…

Challenges of visualization in industry

The most recent Data Stories episode with Elijah Meeks is worth a listen…

A story of humanity in the pixels of a Reddit April Fool’s experiment

On April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched a blank canvas that users could add…

Listen to soundtrack based on FedEx shipment tracking

FedEx (yes, the shipping company) put up an interactive piece that audiolizes a…

Best infographics in the news

The annual Malofiej Awards is the big one for infographics in the news.…

National precinct map

Mapping at the precinct level of detail is tough because there isn’t a…

Time-lapse of community-edited pixels

For April Fool’s Day, Reddit ran a subreddit, r/place, that let users edit…

Pianist eye tracking

What does a pianist look at while playing? Put a pair of eye…

Visualization as skill set or stand-alone profession

Jumpstarted by Elijah Meeks asking why visualization people are leaving the field for…

Looking for more affordable homes and better schools in the suburbs

Families often move out of the city to the suburbs for more affordable…

Compare your commute time to others

Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…

Trump approval ratings compared to past presidents

Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…

LOOPY is a tool to think in systems

Nicky Case, whose projects to simulate segregation and systems with emoji you might…

All major meteor showers, as seen from space

There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…