Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Flights passing through the shadow of the sun
Here’s a neat one by John Muyskens for The Washington Post. Using data…
He vs. She in film screenplay direction
In screenplays, there are directions that tell actors and actresses what to do…
C’est la vis, teaching kids how to visualize data
By adulthood, it’s expected that we can read charts to some degree. You’re…
Sunsquatch, the only eclipse map you need
It’s solar eclipse time. There have been a lot of maps leading up…
Catalog of visualization types to find the one that fits your dataset
There are a lot of visualization methods to choose from, and it can…
Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”
In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…
Photorealistic balls of precious metals placed outside their mines
Artist Dillon Marsh uses CGI balls of metal placed outside of mines to…
How far you can drive out of the city in one hour
Using anonymized cell phone data from Here Technologies, Sahil Chinoy for The Washington…
Game of Thrones character chart, you decide
I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones show, but I suspect this will…
Bread bag alignment chart
From @aurelianrabbit, the bread bag alignment chart. Lawful neutral, right here.…
Where North Korea can reach with its missiles
Troy Griggs and Karen Yourish for The New York Times mapped the estimated…
Perception of neighborhoods through Airbnb ratings
Beñat Arregi made a series of Airbnb maps with a simple premise. If…
Karate-inspired projection mapping
I have no idea how projection mapping works, so it kind of feels…
Music preference geography
Travel to different parts of the country, and you hear different types of…
Interactive shows map projections with a face
We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…
Boeing draws a plane in the sky with flight path
In a test flight, Boeing took the thing where you draw using your…
Voronoi diagram of people in the park
From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…
Flow of goods between states
Using data from the Freight Analysis Framework, Chris Canipe for Axios mapped the…