Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.

Snakes, seashells, mountains — this is something we, designers, might draw instead of showing data.

Many New Yorkers are avoiding the subway, fearful of jostling with strangers in crowded cars.

In this edition, 162 media outlets from 34 different countries have sent in their works.

Quantifying the songs that will characterize the ’90s

An Observable notebook by Pierre Ripoll.

What did cities sound like during the lockdown?

An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.

Here’s the outbreak’s toll in 25 cities and regions compared with hurricanes, heat waves and the Spanish flu.

In order to demonstrate the magnitude of the pandemic, James Beckwith made a time lapse map of each Covid-19 death.

How countries and regions are coping with the covid-19 pandemic

Two aquariums in Japan keep obsessive tabs on their penguins and maintain an updated flowchart that visualizes all their penguin drama.

From migration to trade, the disruption created by covid-19 is erasing decades of economic gains achieved through globalization.

Believe it or not, I learned a lot.

Racism is at the heart of our nation’s inequality.

She’s been having a moment — and that’s not a good thing. Using baby name data, we found other names that are equally as “Karen” as Karen.

As a 100-day project, Alli Torban has been imagining what a data visualization designer’s wallpaper might look like through the years.

It's hard to think of much else. These maps show the racial divide between black and white people in major cities.

Explore our interactive map to discover the most dominant colour of each currencies’ banknotes.

“Flatten the curve” was just the beginning.