scale

Depth of bunker-buster bombs

Infographics / bomb, New York Times, scale

To show how deep bunker-buster bombs penetrate the ground, the New York…
Pay more taxes and receive less

Statistical Visualization / bill, Congressional Budget Office, G. Elliott Morris, government, scale, taxes

The Congressional Budget Office published a report estimating effects on household income if…
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Zooming Out For Clarity

The Process / perspective, scale

With data, we can zoom out. Gather context, get the big picture, and filter out the noise.
Election touchscreen really deep dive by The Onion

Maps / election, humor, Onion, scale

The Onion gained access to the most granular election data yet. Technology sure…
Scale of buildings destroyed in Gaza

Infographics / buildings, Gaza, Reuters, scale

Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged…
Energy used to generate an email with AI

Infographics / email, energy, generative, scale, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of…
Fingers for scale

Infographics / buildings, Reuters, scale

This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and…
Scale of dragons from House of the Dragon

Infographics / fiction, House of the Dragon, scale

Dragons are pretty big, I guess. (Please let me know if you know…
Shrinking down to the size of an atom

Infographics / Epic Spaceman, scale, small

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In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things,…
Limited progress towards a plan for planting 1 trillion trees

Infographics / Bloomberg, Marc Benioff, scale, trees

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1…
Plastics banned in Hong Kong in an effort to reduce waste, scale

Visualization / garbage, plastic, scale, South China Morning Post

Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South…
Tiny chip manufacturing, visually explained

Infographics / chip, Financial Times, manufacturing, scale

Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial…
Scale of all the things, compared to you

Infographics / Kurzgesagt, scale

Kurzgesagt illustrates the scale of the tiniest of things and the biggest of…
Gaza Strip size compared to U.S. cities

Maps / Gaza, scale, Washington Post

One of the most straightforward ways to help others better understand the scale…
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Scale of Things

The Process / scale

Whether a difference seems big or small, important or not, depends on the scale you choose.
Scale of Sports Fields and Courts

Data Underload / scale, sports

Here are the major sports drawn at the same scale to help appreciate the differences between field and court sizes.
Two maps with the same scale

Maps / Josh Horowitz, scale

When you compare two areas on a single map, it can be a…
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Chart Options for When the Scale is Squished by the Full Range of Data

The Process / options, scale

Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get…
Scale model of the universe’s timeline

Data Art / Alex Gorosh, scale, time, Wylie Overstreet

To better understand the scale of time and feed your existential dread, Wylie…
Scale of billions of dollars in Australia’s budget

Infographics / ABC News, budget, scale

To show the scale of tax cuts and Australia’s budget, ABC News takes…

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