Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Explorable explanation for signal detection theory

When you have a lot of noisy data, it can be helpful to…

Declining vacation time from work

Despite available vacation days, it appears that American workers are taking less and…

Congress still getting older

For FiveThirtyEight, Geoffrey Skelley digs into the ongoing trend: What’s behind these increasingly…

Changing Fed projections

This clever chart by Lazaro Gamio shows changing interest rates set by the…

UC admission rates for California public and private high schools

For the San Francisco Chronicle, Nami Sumida shows admission rates at University of…

Online dating, who filters out what

With online dating apps, you’re able to filter out potential matches based on…

Past and present California drought severity

It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most…

Excess Kia and Hyundai car thefts

In the middle of 2022, a popular video on TikTok, since taken down,…

Increasing range of electric vehicles

Hannah Ritchie compared electric vehicle range over the years: The median range of…

100 visualizations from a single dataset with 6 data points

The structure of a dataset can help you pick a visualization method or…

Trying to isolate Russia

The New York Times shows how the west tried to isolate Russia and…

LeBron James’ longevity

Okay, one more LeBron James thing, mostly because I like seeing different looks…

Cumulative points scored by LeBron James and other top scorers

Never fear, Sopan Deb, K.K. Rebecca Lai, and Eve Washington, for The New…

Sankey diagrams to show change in opinion

For Bloomberg, Joe Mayes, Andre Tartar, and Demetrios Pogkas show shifts in public…

Reservoir refills in California

There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to…

Tom Brady of other jobs

Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is 45 years old,…

Animal extinction over time

Animals are going extinct at a faster rate. Reuters shows a developing pattern…

Names that are more dog or more human

There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa…