Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Most popular GIFs used to express emotion in different countries
People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…
Favourite maps from 2017 →
Cartographer picked his favorites. Better late than never.…
Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities
Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…
Time-lapse shows night sky at varying levels of light pollution
One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…
10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2017
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
Charting all the major California wildfires since 2000
Based on data from CAL FIRE, Erin Ross, for Axios, plotted California wildfires…
Family displacements through urban renewal
Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…
Ed Sheeran’s creative process explained with music visualization
The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…
Tax calculator that considers where you live
Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…
Rumsey Collection with a data visualization subject tag
The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now…
