Visualization

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

Moving ice

Ice in Antartica is in constant (very slow) motion, and as ocean waters…

Politics of religious leaders

Kevin Quealy for The Upshot looks at political party registration of religious leaders,…

Geocities map, a snapshot of an old web

Geocities was a place on the web you could create your own space…

Pollution popsicles

Students at the National Taiwan University of Arts made popsicles using sewage runoff…

Baseball hitting angles on the rise

After the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, home runs in professional baseball dipped the…

xkcd: Words in every state map

xkcd reading my mind somehow as usual. Not all state word maps are…

LeBron James passed Michael Jordan in playoff points

As a Golden State Warriors fan, I am obligated to dislike LeBron James,…

Multiplayer stock market game with real money

Twitch launched Stock Stream, which is a multiplayer stock market game that uses…

Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year

Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…

Melting glaciers

Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…

Medieval fantasy city generator

Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…

All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors

While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…

Satellites from the ground

There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…

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.…