Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Views of white Americans

In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put…

How people die in America

Matthew Klein for Bloomberg View explored mortality in America through a slidedeck of…

Five decades of warm and cold weather anomalies

This year’s polar vortex churned up some global warming skeptics, but as we…

Graph TV shows ratings by episode

Kevin Wu made a straightforward interactive that lets you see IMDB television ratings…

Failed Bitcoin market activity

Stamen visualized Bitcoin activity, noting a variety of traders who knew what they…

An exploration of cultural production

Pantheon, a project from the Macro Connections group at The MIT Media Lab,…

Why you should buy the bigger pizza

Because you get more pizza to eat, and if you don’t finish it,…

A human-readable explorer for SEC filings

Maris Jensen just made SEC filings readable by humans. The motivation: But in…

Music timeline of plays and history

Two Google research groups, Big Picture and Music Intelligence, got together and made…

Cherry picking years for random sports statements

When you watch sports, it can sometimes feel like the stat guy pulls…

Facial hair trends over time

In 1976, Dwight E. Robinson, an economist at the University of Washington, studied…

Happy new year around the world

New Year’s is a worldwide event, but as we know, it doesn’t happen…

Body maps show where we feel emotion

Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.…

Evolution of reddit in stacked areas

Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare…

Top reddits of all time

For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…

Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds

Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…

Furloughed employees during shutdown

Dan Delany took a simple look at furloughed employees due to the government…

Crunching the wedding numbers

Weddings are special events where friends and family come together to celebrate, and…