Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Public versus experts, gun control
With this scatterplot, Quoctrung Bui and Margo Sanger-Katz for The Upshot describe where…
Immersive digital waves to visualize nature
FLOW is an interactive art installation by Maotik that represents real-time weather data…
Language in 2016, seen through Google Search Trends
People go to Google to find information about things, and when new words…
Mixing cartography and landscape drawing
Artist Matthew Rangel hikes cross-country and through the mountains, exploring and drawing along…
Draw the patterns of Obama’s presidency
A couple of years back The New York Times asked readers to draw…
National Geographic Infographics, the book
Infographics devolved a bit in recent years, but there was a time the…
Giant map for inauguration planning
In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
Looking for America’s heartland
By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…
U.S. culture through TV show geography
Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
Where people use certain words
Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
Following the carbon dioxide
This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…