simulation

Subway delays visually explained

Infographics / New York Times, simulation, subway

Adam Pearce for The New York Times describes the sad state of affairs…
Waiting For a Table

Data Underload / simulation, waiting

A simulation to estimate how long until you are seated at a restaurant.
Simulation shows swirling of smoke, sea salt, and dust around the world

Maps / environment, NASA, simulation

NASA. Data. Good. Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see…
Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured

Infographics / mortality, simulation

Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…
How disinformation spreads in a network

Network Visualization / disinformation, simulation

Disinformation is kind of a problem these days, yeah? Fatih Erikli uses a…
Visual simulations to show Uber game strategies

Statistics / New York Times, simulation, Uber

Uber uses psychology and video game mechanics to encourage drivers to work longer…
LOOPY is a tool to think in systems

Visualization / simulation

Nicky Case, whose projects to simulate segregation and systems with emoji you might…
Simulation shows how your mouth works when you talk

Infographics / simulation, talking

You have a mouth with a bunch of tissue in it and manipulate…
Here’s how a neural network works

Infographics / neural network, simulation

Daniel Smilkov and Shan Carter at Google put together this interactive learner for…
Simulation shows why polls don’t always match future results

Infographics / polling, simulation, uncertainty

With election season in full swing, as far as the news is concerned…
Super Tuesday simulation to show uncertainty

Infographics / elections, simulation, uncertainty, Upshot

As we know, there are various outcomes during election season, with uncertainty in…
Possible paths for a Trump nomination loss or win

Infographics / elections, government, simulation, Upshot

It pains me to imagine a time when Donald Drumpf earns a Republican…
Try to win the lottery

Statistics / lottery, simulation

The Powerball Lottery is big news in the United States right now. The…
Simulate the world as an emoji system of rules

Apps / Nicky Case, simulation

We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…
A Day in the Life of Americans

Data Underload / simulation, time use

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.
Years You Have Left to Live, Probably

Data Underload / life expectancy, simulation

The individual data points of life are much less predictable than the average. Here's a simulation that shows you how much time is left on the clock.
Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty

Statistics / crime, FiveThirtyEight, Marshall Project, simulation, uncertainty

Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
Why buses bunch at single stops

Infographics / bus, simulation, transportation

Maybe you’ve waited at a bus stop for longer than usual, and your…
Traffic gridlock simulation

Infographics / commute, gridlock, simulation, traffic

I hate all things commute- and traffic-related, and it’s probably why I like…
Vaccination rate and measles outbreak simulation

Infographics / Guardian, measles, simulation, vaccination

You’ve probably heard about herd immunity by now. Vaccinations help the individual and…
Genetic algorithm walkers

Statistics / algorithm, QWOP, simulation

If you ever wondered what it looks like when QWOP-like figures learn to…
Understanding segregation with a simulation

Infographics / Nicky Case, segregation, simulation, Vi Hart

In 1971, Nobel laureate economist Thomas Schelling proposed that a desire to have…
A simulation of the traveling salesman problem

Statistics / simulation, traveling salesman

In a nutshell, the traveling salesman problem is as follows: “Given a list…