Moving Bubbles

Making use of a force-directed graph, bubbles move between different clusters to show grouping over time.

Tutorials and Guides

Examples

When Americans Are Happiest

What people are doing when they are happy and not, from age 20 to 70.

History of wars and power in Europe, animated from 1500 to present

Agar.io is a multiplayer game where people control cells in a Petri dish-type…

Chartball is sports data visualized in a playful way

With Chartball, Andrew Garcia Phillips has visualized sports data for a while, publishing…

Income ladder for the children of immigrants

You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…

How Much Time We Spend Alone and With Others

Oftentimes what we're doing isn't so important as who we're spending our time with.

Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain

Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…

Unemployment and Occupation

Unemployment has hit some industries more than others. Here's how the most recent estimates compare against last year's.

School diversity visualized with moving bubbles

The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts to show the change in diversity…

The Stages of Relationships, Distributed

Everyone's relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage.

A Day in the Life: Women and Men

Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.

A Day in the Life: Work and Home

I simulated a day for employed Americans to see when and where they work.

A Day in the Life of Americans

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person's entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.