There’s big money in wizarding worlds, galaxies far away, and various time-shifted universes. Let’s take a stroll through the billions of dollars earned by franchises over the years. | Continue reading
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New York Times, Brad Plumer and Blacki Migloiozzi, show the current status and what could happen if the U.S. adopted more dra… | Continue reading
Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries. That is all. | Continue reading
After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission with the Opportunity rover. It was originally only planned to last 90 days. Jonathan Corum, for The New York Times, mappe… | Continue reading
Figure out the useful bits and get rid of everything else. | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words used by Donald Trump. This time Quealy examines descriptions of the wall and who will pay for it, pre- and post-inauguration. | Continue reading
Only 15 people have done it, since you know, it’s not really easy to do. Here’s how and when they did it. | Continue reading
Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using a gradient from an image of your choosing. Fun. And excellent wallpaper material. | Continue reading
It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode I through VIII, plus Rogue One and Solo. Need I say more? | Continue reading
Visit the best American breweries of 2018, based on RateBeer rankings, while minimizing travel time and distance. | Continue reading
As more elements were discovered, the table grew and changed layout. For Science Magazine, Jake Yeston, Nirja Desai, and Elbert Wang provide a visual history. | Continue reading
In visualization, there are tools, templates, and defaults, which are meant to be copied and reused. Then there are data graphics that are designed with a specific purpose and dataset, which are so… | Continue reading
Jan Willem Tulp visualized train travel times using distance and color as an indicator. His reasoning: When a train starts running from one station to the next station, conceptually, these two stat… | Continue reading
RateBeer puts out a list every year for top 100 breweries in the world. Here are the states that cracked the list. | Continue reading
It started with a mom holding her painting of a bird. Then someone painted that photo and took a picture of himself holding the painting. Then someone painted the photo of the man holding the paint… | Continue reading
Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Johannes Kroeger constructed the average snapshot for 2018. Fun. | Continue reading
Many parents stop at two kids. Most are done by three. Still, everyone has their own timelines. Here are 1,000 of them. | Continue reading
Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for January. | Continue reading
A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of rise and falls. Something captures the general public’s attention, and then it fades off. Thank you, next. This collaboration betwee… | Continue reading
Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the centuries, evolving to what it is now. Grab the print. | Continue reading
Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming. Unfortunately, the print is sold out. Sad trombone. | Continue reading
Also known as a Marimekko diagram, the mosaic plot lets you compare multiple qualitative variables at once. They can be useful, sometimes. | Continue reading
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes. | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma visualized the path to Congress for every member. See it all at once like above or search for specific members. The vertical scale represents prev… | Continue reading
We looked at prime dating age and when people usually marry. Now it’s time for the next step in the circle of life. | Continue reading
Unfortunately, you can’t just conjure data out of thin air. Well, I guess you can, but it’d probably be sort of unreliable. Kind of. Maybe. So where do you find data? Here’s where… | Continue reading
Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to represent rail delays. Weber’s mom knitted two rows per day and used color to indicate the delay. Grey was under 5 minutes, pink w… | Continue reading
I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer: Anyone need a video demonstrating 1000s, 100s, 10s and 1s? You're in luck pic.twitter.com/sMGKlXKVy7— Dave (@sheepfilm… | Continue reading
DataKind, the organization known for helping others use data for social good, received a $20 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth: The grant … | Continue reading
Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes people indicate the difficulty by following their uncertainty with “(sp?)”. Colin Morris collected all the wor… | Continue reading
Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late: By James O’Donoghue, the animation shows the speed of light in real-time. The distance between Earth, the moon, and Mars is to scale, but the locat… | Continue reading
Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this one is slightly different. For FiveThirtyEight, Maggie Koerth-Baker and Julia Wolfe provide a quiz used by psychologists to gauge… | Continue reading
Datawrapper is an online tool that helps you make nice-looking charts for the web. No code is required. Instead, a focused interface lets you load data, pick your chart type, refine, and publish. | Continue reading
John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better: Some of my earliest memories of the place had to do with the trippy feeling of my eyes and mind trying to make sen… | Continue reading
Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not always clear when the tech is listening. Alias by Bjørn Karmann is a device you put on top of t… | Continue reading
Amanda Cox is the new data editor for The New York Times: As data editor, Amanda will continue to provide direction for The Upshot, and she’ll add the expertise from Computer-Assisted Reporting jou… | Continue reading
There’s a space on the basketball court called “mid-range.” It’s actually not off-limits. In fact, people used to shoot these so-called “mid-range” shots. | Continue reading
Using color as the visual encoding, show changes over time in two dimensions. | Continue reading
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South Africa, looking for stolen property, but John and Ann didn’t steal anything. For Gizmodo, Kashmir Hill investigates… | Continue reading
Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides this one-year time-lapse of the weather over the United States: Fun. [via kottke] | Continue reading
It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick percolating in there somewhere. I’m not sure where this is from. It looks like it’s a recording from a camera pointed at a telev… | Continue reading
Compelling visualization don’t just conjure itself out of nowhere. The ideas come from somewhere, and oftentimes they build off previous ones. | Continue reading
Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map of Earth, Cameron Beccario put together a time-lapse for all of 2018. Watch it on full-screen in its 4k glory. | Continue reading
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The New York Times uses others industries for scale. Ugh. | Continue reading
This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes for me. | Continue reading
Denise Lu for The New York Times provides a quick overview of the proposed border wall and its progress. Scroll for zeros. | Continue reading
The end of a year is always a good time to look back at past work, because the day-to-day can sometimes feel like an endless churn. There’s also just no way to remember everything, and becaus… | Continue reading