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Interactive Map: Sierra Nevadas

Interactive maps can use data to create physical manifestations of something that might seem abstract at first. The New York Times took data gathered by NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory to create interactive maps that show the current state of the drought in the Sierra Nevada mountains. They used NASA’s data to compare the snow that accumulated […]

 

Data Visualization: Plotting Emotion

Data visualizations can help us identify and understand relationships with data, even when the data collected is an emotion. On Inauguration Day, Vox created a poll asking readers how they felt about the incoming president. After submitting five emotions, a two-by-two matrix plotted the collective of emotions by their level of happiness and intensity. The […]

 

Data Visualization: The Complete History Of The NFL

Sports fans are always debating which team is the greatest of all time. At FiveThirtyEight, an interactive data visualization examines the history of the National Football League using an Elo rating, which is a simple measure of strength based on game-by-game results. This allows viewers to quickly examine over 30,000 ratings and evaluate how each team […]

 

Data Visualization: Hamilton

The critically acclaimed musical “Hamilton” contains incredibly complex rhyming lyrics that draw inspiration from traditional musical theatre as well as modern hip-hop and rap. The Wall Street Journal created an algorithm to visualize the lyrics and analyze how common rhyming and rapping techniques intertwine to create one of the most popular musicals of 2016. The […]

 

Sport Statistics: 2015 NFL Preview

Sports statistics allow visual journalists the opportunity to analyze data, identify trends and learn how a player contributes to a team’s success. In this doubletruck previewing the 2015 NFL season, the data is presented in bar, doughnut and fever charts. The data demonstrates NFL’s transition to a pass first league. From a glance, the reader can quickly identify […]

 

Responsive design for graphics

Accessing interactive graphics on small, smart phone screens versus a large desktop computer screen results in two very different user experiences. Responsive design – designing content to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience across a wide range of devices – is a common way to address this. In other words, your graphic may be […]

 

Where Are Ü Now visualization

On Aug. 25, 2015, The New York Times published an innovative data visualization within a video. The entire piece, titled “Video: Justin Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex Make a Hit,” explains how the song and sounds behind “Where Are Ü Now” were created. The dataviz itself is similar to what you see when someone’s playing Guitar […]