Visualization

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

Penrose map binning

Cartographer Daniel Huffman tried out Penrose tiling for binning in maps: A Penrose…

Scale of Aleppo against Berlin and London

A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…

Find a safe bike route with this map

Spring is in the air in a lot of places, and that means…

How many tables restaurant servers have to wait on to earn minimum wage

In most states, there is minimum wage and there is tipping minimum wage.…

Republicans’ health care plan compared against Obamacare

Based on estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz…

Data visualization GIFs

The nice thing about animated GIFs for visualization is that they can get…

Visa restrictions and possible impact on innovation

The Washington Post talked to three experts on the American workforce and innovation…

Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers

Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw from ProPublica with a set of straightforward maps…

The range of Meryl Streep

Here’s a fun piece from Stephanie Merry and Shelly Tan for The Washington…

Apple vs. Google company structure, as seen through patents

For Co.Design, Periscopic compared patent ownership between Apple and Google, which ends up…

Bill Paxton tribute through storm spotters’ GPS coordinates

Bill Paxton, who played a storm chaser in Twister, died on Sunday. To…

Oil and gas wells in the United States

Tim Meko and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post take a dive into…

xkcd: Projecting country borders by time zone

Time zones are odd sometimes.…

Evolution of The New York Times front page

From Josh Begley, this quickfire flip book shows every New York Times front…

Forest of Numbers

To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the National Art Center in Tokyo, Emmanuelle…

Graphs from 1900 that depict a snapshot of African American life

In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois and his students drew a series…

One square mile in different cities

As part of his dissertation, Geoff Boeing generated these maps that show one…

Sharing the same traits and qualities

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8tjhVO1Tc”/] My son used to watch Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (a modern take…