Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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…
Weather models, a visual comparison
Forecast, one of the best if not the best quick-look weather sites, uses…
Rappers’ claimed wealth versus actual wealth
Allison McCann for Businessweek graphed rappers’ claimed wealth in their songs versus their…
Visualizing uncertainty still unsolved problem
Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
Data from an experiment may appear rock solid.…
Price of Damien Hirst spot paintings →
Damien Hirst is an artist known for a number of works, one of…
Central limit theorem animation
The central limit theorem:
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states…
Ratings of TV shows over time
The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…
A thorough Facebook analysis by Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…
Analysis of baseball ticket pricing
If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…
Chartspotting: Coffee graph menu
FlowingData reader Amir sent this along. In lieu of a list of coffee…
Internet Census
Upon discovering hundreds of thousands open embedded devices on the Internet, an anonymous…
State of the Union address decreasing reading level →
With the State of the Union address tonight, The Guardian plotted the Flesh-Kincaid…
Super Bowl ad costs vs. company profit during game
Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now…
Baseball Hall of Fame voting trajectories
Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…
Character mentions in Les Miserables
Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables via character…
Five years of traffic fatalities
I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…