If you’ve never heard of gerrymandering or never quite understood what it means, this is the place to start (and it really is an important issue you should be aware of). If you do, however, know what gerrymandering is, this is a great piece to go deep and explore in detail how re-drawing districts in various ways affects long term winning probabilities.
Probably the most comprehensive overview on this topic to date.
A complex issue, lots of data points, packed into one graphic, making it easy to understand and compelling to explore. I’m impressed.
Census data is often boring – but only until you make it tangible. A simple interactive visualisation to see how many people are like you, and unlike you.
An interesting attempt at creating a new set of tests to measure how equally genders are represented in movies, raising the bar from the intentionally low level set by the Bechdel test (Need a primer on the Bechdel test? Look no further)
I love how a NYT election visualisation has entered pop culture. This is the hommage it deserves.
Pieces of classical music, visualised in an inventive and beautiful way.
The scale of the Rohingya crisis, visualised. Unimaginable.
I think I’ve seen every single explanatory piece on the upcoming solar eclipse. This was one of the first and it still puts everybody else in the shade. A clever approach, brilliantly executed.