Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Doctors’ political leanings
Based on data from researchers at Yale, the Upshot charts party registration by…
Classical music visualized
Artist Nicholas Rouguex visualized some musical scores in his project Off the Staff.…
Map shows two-party presidential shifts since 1920
In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…
Finding the biggest busts and steals from NBA drafts past
Picking basketball players for a professional team is no easy task. College and…
Breaking the algorithmic black box
The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
Rise in income for the poor and middle class
We know that income increased by a lot in 2015, but for who?…
Shifting Clinton and Trump support for different demographic groups
Using data from their Washington Post-ABC News polling, the Washington Post compares shifting…
Food pictures taken with thermal camera
Thermal cameras, which use infrared to detect heat, provide images of temperature. Firefighters…
Computed screen time for men and women
In a collaborative effort, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media computed…
Mississippi drainage
Horace Mitchell for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio mapped the massive drainage basin that…
Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…
xkcd: Earth temperature timeline
In classic xkcd-fashion, Randall Munroe timelines the Earth’s temperature, dating back to 20,000…
Watch bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotic
Scientists at Harvard University setup the MEGA-plate, essentially a giant petri dish, with…
Swing states are a relatively new thing
Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…
Serena Williams, greatest of all time
Serena Williams, who plays tonight in the U.S. Open semifinal, might be the…
Radio station frequencies, by genre
In most areas in the United States, lower FM frequencies are reserved for…
