Visualization

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

Mortgages in terms of years of working life

Buying a house is often confusing and complex, compounded by a dollar sign…

Thirty years of hurricanes

After their graphic for thirty years of floods, Axios follows up with thirty…

Cost of Hurricane Harvey

Kevin Quealy for The Upshot charted the estimated cost of Hurricane Harvey, along…

Everyday thresholds visualized in dramatic fashion

This is a fun one that’s weirdly suspenseful. Everyday thresholds, like the slow…

Most frequent how-tos we search for

Xaquín G.V., in collaboration with the Google News Lab, investigated what people around…

Thirty years of floods

Based on data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Lazaro Gamio for Axios mapped…

Using an audience’s own data to highlight both play and security

This is great. Daniel Goddemeyer and Dominikus Baur made Data Futures, which collects…

Measuring things with ships

We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…

Harvey rainfall map

In case you didn’t hear, Houston is getting some rain due to Hurricane…

Data Comics

Comics are a way to tell stories and for a while now, people…

Color profiles of every Game of Thrones episode

As the final episode of Game of Thrones nears, Kavya Sukumar for Vox…

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…