Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Increasing ocean temperatures, decreasing ice
For National Geographic, Kennedy Elliot made a series of heatmaps that show the…
Getting to zero coal in Britain
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda shows the decrease in coal usage for power…
Game of Thrones viewer ratings by season
The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…
Pitch speed distribution, a decrease with age
Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…
Remixing the grocery receipt with data visualization
In prototyping mode, Susie Lu incorporated visualization into the common receipt from the…
Game of Thrones books versus television series
I think I started watching Game of Thrones around the fourth season (my…
Chart chooser based on data format
There are many chart types to choose from, which is great, because there’s…
Tax changes for different groups
There’s less than a month until taxes are due. It’s the most wonderful…
How to spot a partisan gerrymander
For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called…
Charting cholera, beyond John Snow
John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…
How fast emissions would reduce if other plans were adopted
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…
Personality quiz with traits on a spectrum
Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this…
Voronoi diagram from smooshing paint between glass
It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick percolating in there…
Higher turnout for midterm elections
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…