Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
More global warming, more flooding
Water levels are rising, and naturally, the coasts are feeling it. Jonathan Corum…
Out of state, public education
Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…
Animal migrations in animated map
The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
Composite Olympic moments
One more Olympics-related piece for the road. The New York Times used photo…
Global terrain maps from Stamen
Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…
Heptathlon rankings with parallel coordinates
The Guardian covered the rankings for the women’s heptathlon, specifically how Nafissatou Thiam…
Long-exposure bird flights
Using a long-exposure photography technique, Xavi Bou captured bird flight patterns in his…
Generate your own fantasy map
Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
Michael Phelps race times since his first Olympics
That Michael Phelps. He is a crazy man, in the best possible way.…
Streamgraph of Olympic medal wins
Gregor Aisch and Larry Buchanan for the New York Times visualized Olympic medal…
What makes the Olympic athletes great
Rather than a focus on the events and their details, the New York…
Games to test your skillz against Olympians, from your computer
The last couple of Olympics, news graphics desks went with gloriously detailed explainers…
Star Trek character network
Star Trek fans rejoice. Mollie Pettit from Datascope Analytics visualized the interactions between…
An interactive look at handwriting recognition from 1960s
In the 1960s, the RAND corporation developed a handwriting recognition system using, well,…
