Data Visualization

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I'm always happy to see good charts being produced by national statistical offices. Thanks to Xan Gregg I've discovered these interactive visualizations by Rob Fry's team at the UK Office for National Statistics. They are sequences of density plots of the ages of people who committed suicide every year. As the annotation layer on the charts themselves point out, there were fewer suicides in the 90s than today or the 1980s, and they were more common among younger people. In later years the…

The Financial Times visualizes how Britons spend their time at weekends vs. week days, a graphic that is part of a story about how weekend working affects families. The array of graphs is elegantly designed, as it often happens with the FT, which has developed a massive library of high quality visualizations and even has a column about data journalism. That said, what really does the trick for me is the detailed annotations. Several members of the FT data and graphics team have repeatedly…

“#Sportsviz round 2 - Many evenings lost to make this! 🏀#NCAA 🏀scored hoops for the whole of 2018 colour coded by point value and visualised over elapsed game time. Accumulating hex pillars show location patterns the shot was taken from. This was fun! #dataviz #basketball #map https://t.co/CGUVlkg3wb”

A new study finds government programs for adults often lead to more government spending, but programs for low-income children return taxpayer dollars over time

The Gates Foundation's 2019 Goalkeepers Report is titled Examining Inequality, and it exemplifies how to combine different languages within a single narrative piece. My favorite visuals in the report are the conceptual hand-drawn diagrams; these ones reveal the factors that may hinder a person's progress, such as gender, geography, etc.: The report also contains orthodox visualizations. The designers at Graphicacy used scrollytelling in the middle section to zoom from a world map down to a…

The Gates Foundation's 2019 Goalkeepers Report is titled Examining Inequality, and it exemplifies how to combine different languages within a single narrative piece. My favorite visuals in the report are the conceptual hand-drawn diagrams; these ones reveal the factors that may hinder a person's progress, such as gender, geography, etc.: The report also contains orthodox visualizations. The designers at Graphicacy used scrollytelling in the middle section to zoom from a world map down to a…

Understanding relationships between sets is an important analysis task that has received widespread attention in the visualization community. The major challenge in this context is the combinatorial explosion of the number of set intersections if the ...

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Graphicacy worked with our partners at Johns Hopkins University to design and engineer visualizations that are easy for users to quickly understand as part of their renowned Coronavirus Resource…

The big U.S. newspapers get most of the attention when it comes to news visualization, but other players are producing excellent work, as well. ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization I donate to every year, has a very good tracker of COVID-19 cases in the U.S, designed by by Lena Groeger and Ash Ngu. The geographically arranged animated arrows on top are lovely.

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