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…

Colors of Tintin

Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…

Charting cholera, beyond John Snow

John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…

Names in movies vs. real life

Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…

How fast emissions would reduce if other plans were adopted

The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…

Language used for the wall

For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words…

News story lifespan charts

A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of…

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…