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…