Shrinking down to the size of an atom
In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic Spaceman starts at human size and shrinks down ten times every 21 seconds. Tags: Epic Spaceman, scale, small
View ArticleSeeing the world after Google Streetview
Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame from Google Streetview. He used to only stream from his desk, but he’s exploring the physical world now. For the New York...
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Visually navigate code as stars and galaxies
Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through. Every dot here is a package. Position of a package is determined by force based graph layout algorithm and...
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Conservatives lose UK election by a lot
For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the Conservatives lost the election from multiple angles: lost seats, historical vote share, shift of support to Reform, an easy win by...
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UK party gains and winners
Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the other end with party gains. Angled arrows have become a staple to visualize net differences for regions on a...
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Accuracy of temperature forecasts where you live
You’ve probably noticed that the weather forecast can change a lot for predictions many days out. The amount of fluctuation changes depending on where you live. For the Washington Post, Niko Kommenda...
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1,300 allegations against New Hampshire Youth Development Center
In a collaboration between NHPR and the Pudding, Jason Moon and Russell Samora break down the allegations by time and category. The descriptions of child abuse are hard to read and listen to, but the...
View ArticleDesigning EV sounds
Vox explains the process of designing artificial car sounds for electric vehicles to make EV rides safer. Electric vehicles are quiet, which is nice while you’re driving, but complete silence can also...
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Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires. Calculating Empires takes Donna Haraway’s provocation literally that we need to map the “informatics of domination.”...
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Famine prevalence in different countries
Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in Gaza. The plight of Gaza’s children is part of a bigger trend. Globally last year more than 36 million children under 5...
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Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films
Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our future, Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, examines the shift in settings, themes, and endings over the past eight decades. Pixel art adds depth...
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Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants come from other places, of course. Using immigration records from the past decade, the Washington Post provides a breakdown with...
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Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers
Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes in the real world, or vice versa. Doug Sillars has you covered with HTTP Area Codes. This is very important. Tags:...
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Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took his forecast models with him, is not a fan of the new models on 538, developed by G. Elliott Morris: I thought the 538...
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Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor them. Follow the Crypto by Molly White tracks the spending: Cryptocurrency companies have raised hundreds of millions...
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Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to reconstruct the scene of the rally. They show four lines of sight: from the location of the gunman and three countersniper teams. You...
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Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington Post, Harry Stevens illustrates how a company aims to convert geothermal heat to usable electricity with zero emissions....
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How Olympic athletes combat the heat
A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather, which is a challenge when it’s really hot and you have to run as fast as you can for a couple of hours. Bloomberg illustrates the...
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Illustrated guides to Olympic sports
Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the Olympic sports. (Trampoline is tucked into the Gymnastics category in case you’re looking.) For each sport, there’s a...
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Embroidered landscapes
Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above was inspired by a local creek: I was once again directly inspired by my local landscape, copying the shape of the...
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