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,…
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…
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…