Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

A view of the coronavirus outbreak through data

There’s a lot of figures and numbers floating around about the coronavirus disease.…

Flatten the coronavirus curve

The coronavirus can possibly infect a lot more people than there are those…

Responsible coronavirus charts

Speaking of responsible visualization, Datawrapper provides 17 charts and maps you can use…

Super Tuesday simulator

With Super Tuesday on the way, there’s still a lot of uncertainty for…

Making invisible gas leaks visible

For The New York Times, Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi went to…

Color breakdown of Scientific American covers

For Scientific American, Nicholas Rougeux and Jen Christiansen show the shift in hues…

Fashion runway color palette

From Google Arts & Culture: We came together with The Business of Fashion…

How parents spend time with their kids

For Quartz, Dan Kopf and Jenny Anderson on how time spent with kids…

How people laugh online

Laughter online is full of nuances. A capitalization of some letters or a…

Animated line chart to show the rich paying less taxes

David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…

The early beginnings of visual thinking

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…

Analysis of street network orientation in cities

Continuing his analysis of street grid-iness in cities around the world, Geoff Boeing…

How well players drafted in fantasy football

For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy used a heatmap to visualize fantasy football draft…

Gallery of uncertainty visualization methods

It must be uncertainty month and nobody told me. For Scientific American, Jessica…

A quiz to see if you’re rich

In a compare-your-preconceptions-against-reality quiz, The Upshot asks, “Are you rich?” Enter your nearest…

Exploration of players’ shot improvement in the NBA

Wondering whether if a player’s shot improves over the course of his career,…

Wikipedia views and every line of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…

Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies

For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…