Visualization

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

Balloon maps

There was a time when the best way to get a view from…

National Geographic Infographics, the book

Infographics devolved a bit in recent years, but there was a time the…

Going local on gun violence

Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…

Football catches visualized

It’s always fun to go back to sports articles and graphics that were…

Giant map for inauguration planning

In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…

Change in rain, 2016

In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…

Looking for America’s heartland

By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2016

Here are my favorites for the year.

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…

Map of New York City shadows

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…

Following the carbon dioxide

This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…

Listen to radio around the globe

Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…

Houston flooding on the rise

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…

Electoral college and state population representation weights

By design, the electoral college and population don’t quite match up state-by-state. This…

Random states of America show changing election outcomes

Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out…

New region boundaries based on commutes

Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community…

An average life as interpretive dance

BuzzFeed used interpretive dance to describe the average age of the milestones in…