Visualization

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

Atlas of Design, Volume 7

Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas…

Fingers for scale

This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and…

Making unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated

For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between…

Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds

Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has…

Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xKVXOt240″ /] You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and…

Weight of cars and fatalities

The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions,…

Internationalization of K-Pop

K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…

Basketball globe

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…

Map of job gains and losses

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…

Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor

To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…

Air Quality Stripes

In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a…

Scammed out of life savings, a line chart

Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little,…

Maps of climate tipping points

The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will…

Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians

Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a…

Meat industry olympic chart

Speaking of data projects in unexpected places, David Mora repurposed one of my…

Sun vs. Moon, a game kind of

Neal Agarwal made a game of sorts where you either click for the…

One million screenshots of the web’s homepages in a single layout

One Million Screenshots, by Urlbox, is a collection of 1,048,576 homepage screenshots in…

Uncertain risk behind climate change models

To demonstrate the level of uncertainty in using climate forecasting models, Bloomberg compared…