Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
All the ways to map election results
Every election, there’s a slew of election maps that come in all shapes…
Impact of Obamacare in maps
It’s been three years since the Affordable Health Care Act. Margot Sanger-Katz and…
Vintage cartography and geography documentary, from 1961
This is too good not to watch. It’s a 1961 documentary on cartography…
Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border
There’s been a lot of talk about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican…
Ad spending for Clinton and Trump
Adam Pearce for the New York Times charted ad spending for Clinton and…
Trump bar chart baselines are the worst baselines. Sad.
The Donald Trump campaign has a habit of highlighting poll results with a…
Composite photos of airplanes in flight
Photographer Mike Kelley visited airports around the world, took pictures of airplanes leaving,…
Visions penned by the 18th century king of Prussia
Past Visions, a visual archive of Frederick William IV’s, shows thousands of drawings…
Tron-style slippy map
Mapzen just released a Tron-style slippy map.
Today we introduce TRON version 2…
All the Harry Potter spells, when they were used
I often stare far into the distance and ponder world’s greatest questions —…
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?…
