Visualization

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

Physical demo of how all maps are wrong

We’ve seen many one-off projects that show the distortions you get when you…

Detailed time-lapse of everywhere on Earth

A few years back, Google released a time-lapse feature in Google Earth that…

Food patterns

Food trends come and go. Some stay longer than expected, and others come…

American infrastructure mapped

I can always find time to enjoy me some minimal maps. Tim Meko…

Typeface interweaves words and graphs

Datalegreya is a new typeface by Fig that lets you intertwine a graph…

Actual deportation numbers

There was a lot of talk about deporting millions of illegal immigrants immediately,…

in/ex troversion

Here’s a short illustrated animation on introverts and extroverts by Julia Rodrigues. This…

Increasing diversity

Dan Keating and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post map the change in…

Visual collection of bird sounds

Different species of birds make different sounds. However, the sounds are so quick…

History of Earth in the context of a football field

In the latest addition to the put-big-numbers-in-context genre, here’s the history timeline of…

Dear Data headed to MoMA’s permanent collection

What started as a personal project and then turned into a book, Dear…

What $100 buys in each state

A hundred bucks in one state doesn’t always get you the same thing…

Dialect book of maps

In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people…

Visual connections between art pieces

This is neat. A Google Arts & Culture Experiment, X Degrees of Separation…

Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast

During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…

Data Sketches, a monthly visualization matchup

Data Sketches, a collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu, aims to visualize…

Peaks and valleys of presidential support

This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…

Randomness of scientific impact

A group of researchers wondered if there was a trend or predictability for…