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nightingaledvs.com

Why visual journalism is so slow

Tracking every hour of a typical project to uncover the biggest time drains and share insights on how to speed things up.

a11y-collective.com

Implement WCAG rules in your infographics

Create WCAG-compliant infographics with expert tips on alt text, contrast, and screen reader support.

reuters.com

Cozy comfort

New research backs up what gamers have thought for years: video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety.

nightingaledvs.com

A garden of sleep

Tracking the emotional distance between two bedtimes—an experimental dataviz project.

historicaltechtree.com

Historical tech tree

Interactive visualization of technological history.

szupie.github.io

Life & supercontinents

A history of Earth’s supercontinents and their impact on evolution.

hai.stanford.edu

The 2025 AI index report

A report by Stanford HAI on why AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced.

tomazweiss.github.io

The decline of Stack Overflow

With the rise of AI-driven coding assistants, the platform’s relevance has taken a hit.

shirleywu.studio

What killed innovation?

How interactive data visualization has gone from bold experimentation to polished, predictable formats.

ft-interactive.github.io

Dataviz vocabulary

There are so many ways to visualise data—how do we know which one to pick?

blog.luap.info

The reality of dating apps

This engineer has been working inside a dating app for a few months and has learned a lot of interesting things about dating behaviors.

datavizproject.com

Data viz project

A collection of more than 160 different types of data visualizations, with definitions, taxonomies, and examples.

informationisbeautiful.net

The New York Good Times

A different way of seeing the news.

subwaystories.nyc

Subway stories

A beautiful and interactive visualization of the MTA’s subway ridership data. Created for the 2024 MTA Open Data Challenge.

informationisbeautiful.net

Most beautiful news of 2024

Distilling the world’s data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations.

fossheim.io

Dataviz accessibility principles

I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong.

informationisbeautiful.net

Per second vibrations

Distilling the world’s data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations.

worldindots.com

Dotted maps generator

Create vector dotted maps with custom options and download them as SVG or PNG files.

justinjay.wang

Methods for random gradients

An overview of techniques I’ve used to generate random gradients.

teresaibarra.com

Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend

Facebook allows you to download all of the messages you've ever sent, ever, as JSON files.