Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Visualization as skill set or stand-alone profession
Jumpstarted by Elijah Meeks asking why visualization people are leaving the field for…
Looking for more affordable homes and better schools in the suburbs
Families often move out of the city to the suburbs for more affordable…
Compare your commute time to others
Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…
Trump approval ratings compared to past presidents
Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…
LOOPY is a tool to think in systems
Nicky Case, whose projects to simulate segregation and systems with emoji you might…
All major meteor showers, as seen from space
There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…
Fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf
Sorting algorithms. Apparently there are an endless number of ways to visualize them…
Towards simple visualization
Irene Ros, the Director of Data Visualization at Bocoup, talks about her path…
Catching a real ball in virtual reality
Man wears virtual reality headset. Another man throws a ball to headset-wearing man.…
Conflicted public opinion about global warming
Based on estimates from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, The New…
Simulation shows how your mouth works when you talk
You have a mouth with a bunch of tissue in it and manipulate…
Shifting national budget
The Washington Post looks at the shifting national budget over the past 40…
Penrose map binning
Cartographer Daniel Huffman tried out Penrose tiling for binning in maps:
A Penrose…
Scale of Aleppo against Berlin and London
A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…
How many tables restaurant servers have to wait on to earn minimum wage
In most states, there is minimum wage and there is tipping minimum wage.…
Republicans’ health care plan compared against Obamacare
Based on estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz…
