Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Red counties mostly stayed red

For The New York Times, Denise Lu and Karen Yourish looked at the…

Spike past 100k Covid-19 cases in a day

Meanwhile… based on estimates from The COVID Tracking Project, the United States had…

Watch the election percentages for votes counted so far

Still waiting for those results? Bloomberg’s election page for each state shows the…

Election needles are back

The NYT election needles of uncertainty are back, and they’re about to go…

Comparing correlation in the FiveThirtyEight and Economist election forecasts

FiveThirtyEight and The Economist take similar inputs but output different forecasts. Adam Pearce…

Political search interest in 2020

In Waves of Interest, a collaboration between the Google News Initiative and Truth…

How your state makes electricity

The way we make electricity in America is changing. For The New York…

Early voting volumes

As you might expect, early voting volume is high across the country. In…

Interactive data essays on climate change

In their second issue, Parametric Press focuses on climate change with a set…

Data visualization in virtual reality

Virtual reality puts you in a digital world that can feel like a…

Covid-19 cases and state partisanship

From Dan Goodspeed, the bar chart race is back. The length of the…

NBA playoff win probabilities, animated over time

FiveThirtyEight publishes win probabilities for NBA games throughout the season. During the playoffs,…

Covid-19, the third leading cause of death

For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of…

Breaking down the $4 trillion bailout

Using a straightforward treemap, The Washington Post looks at where the $4 trillion…

Presidential Plinko

To visualize uncertainty in election forecasts, Matthew Kay from Northwestern University used a…

Shape of unemployment

For The New York Times, Ella Koeze looks at the various types of…

Millions of people experienced unhealthy air in 2020

NPR estimated how many people have experienced unhealthy air this year, largely in…

Timeline of the President’s taxes

The New York Times got a hold of the President’s tax records for…