Data Visualizations
Inspiration for visualizing data, concepts and theories. And on how to work with data and become a data scientist.
Collection by Katja Evertz
Nathan Yau
Counting Happiness and Where it Comes From
2 min read · Jul 29th · Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots.
Nathan Yau
Olympic medal tracker
Jul 27th · The Bloomberg medal tracker is fun to look at. I think the graphics desk was instructed to use as many new-ish chart types as they could without alienating readers: the streamgraph, force-directed …
FiveThirtyEight
Every Olympic ‘Sport,’ In One Chart
3 min read · Jul 22nd · The Olympics are an international celebration of sport, but not all sports are invited to the cool kids’ table. The first modern Olympics in 1896 had only a han…
Visual Capitalist
Long Waves: The History of Innovation Cycles
~11 min read · Jul 1st · Creative destruction plays a key role in entrepreneurship and economic development. Coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942, the theory of “creative destruction” suggests that business cycles…
The Pudding
A Visual History of Rickrolling
Jul 21st · Millions of comments, posts, and links, charted.
The New Yorker
When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death
7 min read · Jun 14th · Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems.
Nathan Yau
Visualization Tools and Resources, June 2021 Roundup
Jun 25th · Here’s the good stuff for June 2021.
KDnuggets
Data Science Books You Should Start Reading in 2021
4 min read · Apr 23rd · Check out this curated list of the best data science books for any level.
My Modern Met
Colorful World Map Reveals the Oldest Running Businesses of (Almost) Every Country
1 min read · 2020-03-23 · These color-coded maps reveal the oldest business of each country that's still running today — some have been going strong for nearly 1,500 years!
cardesignhistory.com
Car Design History
1 min read · Apr 21st · Explore the evolution of car design through a data visualization of all cars designed by the big Italian design studios
Data Visualization Society
Visualizing Environmental Action
~17 min read · Apr 22nd · How I visualized United Nations data on environmental treaties
Nathan Yau
Seeing How Much We Ate Over the Years
2 min read · Jun 8th · How long will chicken reign supreme? Who wins between lemon and lime? Is nonfat ice cream really ice cream? Does grapefruit ever make a comeback? Find out in these charts.
observablehq.com
Simplex Stacks
May 11th · You may have heard of Simplex Noise, you can find many amazing visuals using it on Observable. But have you ever seen a stacked area chart of Simplex noise? This notebook does just that, using Plot to…
