Visualization

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

xkcd: Words in every state map

xkcd reading my mind somehow as usual. Not all state word maps are…

LeBron James passed Michael Jordan in playoff points

As a Golden State Warriors fan, I am obligated to dislike LeBron James,…

Multiplayer stock market game with real money

Twitch launched Stock Stream, which is a multiplayer stock market game that uses…

Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year

Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…

Melting glaciers

Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…

Medieval fantasy city generator

Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…

All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors

While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…

Satellites from the ground

There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…

Chernoff emoji

Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis. This visualization…

Breathing Earth of vegetation

Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…

Gerrymandering game shows you how it works

Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors…

Life expectancy by state, against the US average

FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…

X-Ray of the oceans

Using satellite data and spatial models, researchers estimate human influence in the ocean.…

Most popular colors used by most popular sites

Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…

Sandwich alignment chart

By @matttomic, this chart speaks to me.…

YouTube plays for ‘It’s Gonna Be May’

It’s that time of year again. Turn up the volume and blast It’s…

Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured

Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…

Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014

Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…