Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and lack of sunlight can change aspects of …
This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of carbon dioxide swirl around the planet, “using …
Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says. Pan the globe and listen to live …
Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events could grow more common. ProPublica and The …
By design, the electoral college and population don’t quite match up state-by-state. This results in a lower ratio of electoral …
Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out and where candidates campaign. Neil Freeman demonstrates …
Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and Cloud, look at how a network deals …
Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community Survey to identify “megaregions” in the United …
BuzzFeed used interpretive dance to describe the average age of the milestones in our lives, from birth, losing the first …
We’ve seen many one-off projects that show the distortions you get when you project a map. There’s just no avoiding …
‘Tis the season.
The Beer Judge Certification Program lists 100 styles of beer. Here’s a chart for all of them.
A king bed isn’t the same size everywhere. Sometimes, a king is a queen.
How does the distribution of calories vary by fast food restaurant? Here’s a chart that shows all the menu items for ten of the biggest national fast food chains.
Separately, we looked at marrying age, divorce rates, and those who never married. Now let’s look at marital status all together, with the addition of the widowed status.
Based on bachelor’s degrees conferred, here are the fields that were and are currently popular.
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How to make a bunch of maps and string them together to show change.
How to make a more readable and more visually accurate map, before you dive into the big transitions.
Rarely do you have evenly-spaced data across an entire geographic space. Here is a way to fill in the gaps.
There are many ways to show parts of a whole. Here are quick one-liners for the more common ones.
This is an update to the guide I wrote in 2009, which as it turns out, is now mostly outdated. So, 2016. Here we go.
For those who work with R and d3.js, the differences between the two are obvious. But for those who are …
Visualization is complex, but if I were to break it down simply, I’d say it’s something like the process below. …
Here are some tips to get you started, based on my own experiences with R, and more recently, the JavaScript library d3.js.
