Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Math gender gap bigger in richer school districts
This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for…
Ancient Earth globe shows where you were located 750 million years ago
In a spin on the view of ancient Earth and the shift of…
Convert an image to LEGO brick shopping list in R
Every day you wish you could convert a picture of your family or…
History of the health meter in video games
The health meter in video games wasn’t always so commonplace. It took time,…
Unsolved killings mapped
Thousands of homicides. Some cases result in an arrest. Many end up unsolved.…
All the volcano eruptions
Slowly becoming the person who charts the past century of natural disaster events,…
Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood
The ink-drawn map of Hundred Acre Wood by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard…
Imagining gigantic places with satellite imagery
Artist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds where there are so many people that the…
Vintage chart shows the evolution in design of everyday objects
By Raymond Loewy, this chart from 1934 shows the shifts in design of…
Nigel Holmes new illustrated book on Crazy Competitions
Nigel Holmes, the graphic designer known for his playful illustrated graphics, has a…
A visualization game to understand education and school segregation
Educate Your Child by Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee uses census data and the school…
Subway delays visually explained
Adam Pearce for The New York Times describes the sad state of affairs…
What data visualization is for
Eric Rodenbeck from Stamen Design discusses visualization the medium over visualization the tool…
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…
