Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Five years of traffic fatalities

I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…

Longer life expectancy, more years of disease

Bonnie Berkowitz, Emily Chow and Todd Lindeman for the Washington Post plotted life…

Get a visual recap of your year on Twitter

As 2013 nears, let the recaps, reviews, and best ofs begin. Twitter put…

How tax rates have changed

Mike Bostock, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff for the New York Times explored…

Mitt Romney losing likes on Facebook, in real-time

If you go to the Facebook page for Mitt Romney, note the number…

History of film, 100 years in a chart

In something of an homage to the Genealogy of Pop & Rock Music…

Lord of the Rings visualized

Driven by his love for Lord of the Rings, Emil Johansson explores the…

Presidential campaign finance explorer

Hey, I think it’s election season, and you know what that means. It’s…

Color names plotted against gender

A couple of years ago, xkcd ran a survey that asked people to…

Animated political contributions

The Forest of Advocacy is a series of animations that explores the political…

History of tax breaks

Kat Downs, Laura Stanton and Karen Yourish of The Washington Post look at…

Wikipedia is dominated by male editors

After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…

Who pays for healthcare, 1960 to 2010

Josh Cothran looked at who’s paid for healthcare over the past five decades,…

Twitter Political Index measures feelings towards candidates

In partnership with social analytics service Topsy, Twitter launched a Political Index that…

Comparing Romney’s tax returns to presidential returns

Lee Drutman, a Senior Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, compared the tax returns…

Tracking the spread of AIDS

Adam Cole and Nelson Hsu for NPR plotted the percentage of people, ages…

Olympian age distributions compared

Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…

Where you measure up against Olympians

I think the theme of this year’s Olympic graphics is how you relate…