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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: 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 […]

 

NYT Lasik interactive

Animated graphics allow us to take viewers where cameras cannot, providing close-up views of microscopic,  invisible, or hard-to-capture processes, events, and actions. For example, if you wanted to explain the delicate process of how Lasik eye surgery is performed, a video camera in the operating room would do little more than chronicle the actions of doctors […]