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Days without rain
New York City recently issued a drought warning because of an abnormally dry fall. For Bloomberg, Denise Lu used a heatmap to highlight day streaks without rain via precipitation measurements in...
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Mapping every voter as a grain of sand
To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used a sand pile metaphor. Each grain of sand represents a vote for red or blue, and more votes create larger piles. Some piles are more...
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Dot density map for election results
With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot density map to show election results by county. The dot counts are scaled to population density. At first glance, I thought it was a...
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Evolution of the love song
For The Pudding, David Mora and Michelle Jia examine the death of the love song, or rather, the evolution of the love song to include other types alongside the sappy and puppy dog types. Each bubble...
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Margin of victory over past elections, in Minnesota
For the Minnesota Star Tribune, Yuqing Liu and C.J. Sinner show how the margin of victory changed each presidential election in Minnesota. Each bubble represents a county, size shows total votes, and...
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Swooping vote margins
The New York Times used swooping arrows to show vote swings left and right for the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections. A shift left makes the section of an arrow blue, and a shift right makes a section of...
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Participation in the annual United Nations climate conference
For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul visualized annual participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which has been running every year since 1995. If you think of the numbers as a...
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Tunnel through the live Bluesky firehose
Bluesky has a relatively easy-to-use firehose that lets you dip into the stream of events through the platform. Theo Sanderson made this tunnel view to immerse yourself in the stream of consciousness...
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Emoji rain and Bluesky Matrix
Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that fall down the screen. Larger drops represent longer posts. Or, if the Matrix aesthetic is your thing, Short did that...
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Bathymetry blanket crochet
Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to pass the downtime between tasks, she crocheted a bathymetry blanket: I assigned 11 colors to different depth ranges: reds and yellows...
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Tree blanket color-coded by local temperature
Speaking of data blankets, the knitting club in the area I live has an annual tradition of making sweaters for trees in their downtown. One of the trees was wrapped with a temperature blanket. Each...
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Rainbow Sky, the colors mentioned on Bluesky
Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky posts, via the firehose. Just let the wave of calm wash over you. I’m sure there are many more mashups to come, but...
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Movie runtimes framed by life expectancy
Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you use movies as a progress bar for life expectancy. Enter your birthdate and expected lifespan. Then select a movie from the list....
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3-D print of John Snow cholera map
You know the John Snow map that highlights a cholera outbreak in London, from 1854. Alex Selby-Boothroyd made a 3-D-printed version that brings the stacked counts out of the map. Tags: 3-D printing,...
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Material requirements from EV batteries
To make batteries for electric vehicles, manufacturers require materials from all over the world. It’s not always clear how these materials are obtained. The Washington Post provides insights into the...
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China jumps to car exports leader in just a few years
China exported next to zero vehicles in 2010, but from 2020 to 2024, China leapfrogged all other other countries to become the leading exporter, by a lot. For The New York Times, Agnes Chang and Keith...
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Higher margins with fewer hospital staff, not the best mix
Many hospitals in the United States are for-profit, which itself is not a bad thing, but problems arise when patient care suffers because of profit optimizations. For Bloomberg Businessweek, Caleb...
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Your name shaped under a trend line
Add another graphic to the baby name genre of visualization. Karim Douïeb put a spin on name trends by shaping the actual name to the line. Enter your name and see how many babies were given the name...
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When internet cables break under the sea
The network that connects the world still relies on surprisingly thin wires that run miles down on the ocean floor. Sometimes those wires break. For The New York Times, James Glanz, Elian Peltier, and...
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Tsunami alert, because earthquake off coast of Northern California
The folks up here received one of those loud emergency alerts a few minutes ago — for a “TSUNAMI WARNING.” I think that’s a first for me. There was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast. It still...
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