Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Stock trading game
Bloomberg Business has an interesting stock trading game with a simple premise. A…
Evolving LEGO color palette
DaveE from the Brickset Forum was curious about the changing LEGO color palette,…
Superhero HR dashboard
Talent Lab is an application for human resource professionals to evaluate a work…
Classic 1939 book on graphs in its entirety
Willard Cope Brinton is credited as one of the pioneers of information visualization,…
Power sources in each state
A clean and simple set of slope charts to show the change between 2000 and 2014.
Automatic charts and insights in Google Sheets
So you have your data neat and tidy in a single spreadsheet, and…
Top high school plays and musicals, by decade
Based on annual high school play and musical rankings from the magazine Dramatics,…
Technology sector, share of market over time
Here’s a straightforward stacked area chart from the Economist that shows shifting market…
Comparison of shifted public opinion
David Leonhardt and Alicia Parlapiano compared public opinion over time for various social…
Length of the average master’s thesis
A while back beckmw found the average length of a dissertation for various…
Compare your curve to reality for income versus college attendance
Those who grow up in poorer families are less likely to go to…
Estimated age based on your name
A while back, Nate Silver and Allison McCann for FiveThirtyEight estimated age based…
Rising beef prices and cattle theft
Eric Benson for FiveThirtyEight delves into cattle theft, which can cost an owner…
Black and White America compared as if they were countries
The Economist made a simple yet effective comparison of Black America and White…
Disaster risk indices estimate impact on people
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 can affect countries differently, depending on…
Quick change of mind on social issues
As Supreme Court hearings for same-sex marriage start today, Alex Tribou and Keith…
Why exploring big data is hard
The talks from OpenVisConf 2015 went up, so I’m slowly making my way…
Emptied reservoirs in California
Winter is over and it’s shorts weather these days in California. This is…