Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Partisan gap in Covid death counts

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, David Leonhardt, New York Times, partisanship

David Leonhardt for The New York Times looked at the partisan gap for…
Palm oils and rainforest destruction

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, palm oil, rainforest

Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it…
Painbow color scale

Statistical Visualization / color, humor, xkcd

xkcd poked fun at the sometimes questionable color choices of researchers.…
Rising prices of everything

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, prices, spending, Washington Post

Using Consumer Price Index, Alyssa Fowers and Rachel Siegel for The Washington Post…
Check the frequency of salmonella in your chicken

Statistical Visualization / chicken, food, ProPublica, salmonella

The USDA recommends that you cook your chicken to at least 165°F to…
Bend the emissions curve

Statistical Visualization / climate change, emissions, New York Times

There has been progress since the Paris climate agreement in 2014, but there’s…
Drought extent by region

Statistical Visualization / drought, Scientific American

For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…
Spending bill in a treemap box

Statistical Visualization / government, spending, Upshot

Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat…
Treemap tour of political donations

Statistical Visualization / ABC News, contributions, politics, scrollytelling

The Digital Story Innovation Team for ABC News in Australia looked at political…
Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain

Statistical Visualization / bias, gender, New York Times, work

Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…
Possible cheating seen in a scatterplot

Statistical Visualization / cheating, Economist, election

When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist:…
Visualizing time-based data

Statistical Visualization / Observable, questions, time

Zan Armstrong, Ian Johnson, and Mike Freeman for Observable wrote a guide on…
Heatmap of average IMDb ratings for all the shows

Statistical Visualization / imdb, Jim Vallandingham, ratings, television

Inspired by a graphic on Reddit, Jim Vallandingham expanded the format for all…
How Facebook disappeared from the internet

Statistical Visualization / Cloudflare, facebook

Cloudflare describes how things looked from their point of view the day that…
Assessment of the Covid-19 dashboards

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, coronavirus, dashboard

Researchers evaluated 158 Covid-19 dashboards, assessing design, implementation, and usefulness. Marie Patino for…
Using rates for more relatable Covid-19 numbers

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, rate, scale, Washington Post

With millions of Covid-19 deaths worldwide, and hundreds of thousands in the US,…
Data visualization activities for kids

Statistical Visualization / kids, Nightingale

Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Get the kids started…
Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated

Statistical Visualization / CDC, coronavirus, unvaccinated, vaccination

The CDC released a chart that shows case, hospitalization, and death rates for…
How the demographics of your neighborhood changed

Statistical Visualization / census, demographics, San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle compares demographics in your neighborhood in 2020 against 2010.…
Lightning algorithm

Statistical Visualization / algorithm, Matt Henderson, Numberphile

Matt Henderson on Numberphile shows off a “lightning algorithm” which is actually a…

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