Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Frequency trails chart explainer

Statistical Visualization / frequency trails, joyplot

Frequency trails, or currently better known as joyplots, is a visualization method to…
Visualizing nonlinear stories

Statistical Visualization / movies, narrative, story, timeline

Many stories don’t follow a linear format. There are flashbacks, or multiple timelines…
Triangulate a picture

Statistical Visualization / Delaunay, images

Triangulate, a fun tool made by Michael Freeman, lets you upload a picture…
How fake data goes viral

Statistical Visualization / fake data

BuzzFeed describes how an article on Daily Mail — that falsely reported claims…
Nine rounds a second sonified

Statistical Visualization / New York Times, shootings, sonification

The New York Times used sonification along with a dot plot to demonstrate…
Given your income, most beneficial tax breaks

Statistical Visualization / taxes, Washington Post

With the release of the Republican proposed tax plan, Reuben Fischer-Baum and Kevin…
Comparing the strength of Hurricane Irma against previous hurricanes

Statistical Visualization / hurricane, New York Times

For perspective, The New York Times compares the strength of Hurricane Irma to…
Thirty years of hurricanes

Statistical Visualization / Axios, hurricane

After their graphic for thirty years of floods, Axios follows up with thirty…
Cost of Hurricane Harvey

Statistical Visualization / hurricane, Upshot, weather

Kevin Quealy for The Upshot charted the estimated cost of Hurricane Harvey, along…
Using an audience’s own data to highlight both play and security

Statistical Visualization / audience, mobile, talk

This is great. Daniel Goddemeyer and Dominikus Baur made Data Futures, which collects…
He vs. She in film screenplay direction

Statistical Visualization / gender, tropes

In screenplays, there are directions that tell actors and actresses what to do…
C’est la vis, teaching kids how to visualize data

Statistical Visualization / app, Data Stories, learning

By adulthood, it’s expected that we can read charts to some degree. You’re…
Catalog of visualization types to find the one that fits your dataset

Statistical Visualization / methods, tool

There are a lot of visualization methods to choose from, and it can…
Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”

Statistical Visualization / race, Upshot

In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…
Game of Thrones character chart, you decide

Statistical Visualization / Game of Thrones, Upshot

I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones show, but I suspect this will…
Voronoi diagram of people in the park

Statistical Visualization / voronoi

From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…
Hotter and hotter summers, extremely hot

Statistical Visualization / histogram, New York Times

Climate scientist James Hansen and team looked at summer temperatures over several decades.…
An interactive to explain histograms, for normal people

Statistical Visualization / distribution, histogram

Histograms require some statistical knowledge to grasp, and without the tidbits, the distribution…
Boost economy with immigration

Statistical Visualization / economy, immigration

Want to increase the GDP? Easy. Let more immigrants in. Lena Groeger for…
Gender representation in comic books

Statistical Visualization / comics, gender, The Pudding

Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic…

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