guns

Visual explainer on what an AR-15 does to the human body

Infographics / damage, guns, shootings, Washington Post

This is necessarily uncomfortable to go through, but for The Washington Post, N.…
Trajectories of celebratory gunfire

Infographics / 1Point21, guns, trajectory

When someone fires a gun into the air, the bullet travels thousands of…
Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.

Statistical Visualization / guns, law, mortality, Washington Post

As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…
Empty school buses as a representation of student lives lost

Data Art / bus, guns, students

The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…
U.S. still the outlier for gun homicide rate

Statistical Visualization / guns, homicide

This chart from The New York Times, based on estimates from Our World…
Unreliable gun data from the CDC

Statistics / FiveThirtyEight, guns, The Trace, uncertainty

FiveThirtyEight and The Trace investigate the uncertainty and accuracy of gun injury data…
Gun emoji usage analysis

Statistics / emoji, guns

Jane Solomon collected tweets that used the gun emoji, and looked at what…
Public versus experts, gun control

Infographics / guns, Upshot

With this scatterplot, Quoctrung Bui and Margo Sanger-Katz for The Upshot describe where…
Going local on gun violence

Maps / guns, homicide, local

Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…
Gun deaths

Infographics / FiveThirtyEight, guns, mortality

As an introduction to a series on gun deaths in America, FiveThirtyEight uses…
U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

Statistical Visualization / guns, mortality

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…
Out-of-state gun purchasing

Maps / guns, New York Times

In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…
A visual exploration of US gun murders

Infographics / guns, interactive, murder, Periscopic

Information visualization firm Periscopic just published a thoughtful interactive piece on gun murders…