Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors
While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
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,…
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…
How disinformation spreads in a network
Disinformation is kind of a problem these days, yeah? Fatih Erikli uses a…
NFL draft performance vs. expectations
Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post looks at professional football expectations given their…
Stephen Curry for MVP, because he makes his teammates better the most
The choice for Most Valuable Player in the NBA is only minimally about…
Why momentum works
Gabriel Goh models momentum over at the new machine learning journal Distill. The…