Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Old Christmas songs get all the play time

Jon Keegan scraped the playlist from the local radio station’s all-Christmas playlist for…

Soup-Salad-Sandwich space

The debate rages on about the categorization of food items as soup, salad,…

Heatmap shows deaths by age in different countries

This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…

Teaching kids data visualization

Jonathan Schwabish gave his fourth-grade son’s class a lesson on data visualization. He…

A collection of Charles-Joseph Minard’s statistical graphics

Charles-Joseph Minard, best known for a graphic he made (during retirement, one year…

Millions of data points with deep scatterplots

Ben Schmidt uses deep scatterplots to visualize millions of data points. It’s a…

Measuring the varied sentiments of good and bad words

There was a survey a while back that asked people to provide a…

Inside Hurricane Maria, a 3-D perspective

This 3-D view inside Hurricane Maria, from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA’s…

Constructing charts and graphs

Jeffrey Heer, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, provides an…

Experience a soccer game through crowd noise

Sports visualization and analysis tends to focus on gameplay — where the players…

More wildfires than ever

Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News delves into the increasing number of wildfires in…

Why the city is hotter than the suburb

NPR used video from a thermographic camera to explain why cities tend to…

Twitter bot purge

With Twitter cracking down, some users are experiencing bigger dips in follower count…

Street network orientation in major cities

Using OpenStreetMap data, Geoff Boeing charted the orientation distributions of major cities: Each…

Visual introduction to bias in machine learning

A few years ago, Stephanie Yee and Tony Chu explained the introductory facets…

Math gender gap bigger in richer school districts

This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for…

A visualization game to understand education and school segregation

Educate Your Child by Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee uses census data and the school…

Income mobility for different groups

Building on their previous visualization work on black boys dropping income levels in…