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2026
Who made the lollipop chart, and for what?
What Is a Bar Chart Race?
Gridded Cartogram
Pseudo-Continuous Cartogram
Non-Continuous Cartogram
Continuous Cartogram
Natural Earth's POV (Point of View) Data
Proportional Flow Map
Graduated Flow Map
Spark Words
Text Skimming
Typographic Stacked Bar Chart
Typographic Mekko Chart
Typographic Graph
Parallel Coordinates with River Labels
Line Chart with River Labels
Typographic Scatterplots
3D Yield Curve
Heatmap
Mekko Chart
Diverging Bar Chart
100% Stacked Bar Chart
What Is AIS?
What Is ADS-B?
Stacked Bar Chart
Grouped Bar Chart
The Evolution of Tableau Color Schemes
What Is MapLibre Tile (MLT)?
What Is VizQL?
What Is Show Me?
What Is Polaris?
What Is GeoPackage (.gpkg)?
ReConstitution 2008
Quotidian Record
Prime Numerics
Mary Huang's D.dress (2010): UI, Implementation, and Generative Algorithm
A Typical Day in the Life of Americans
Tokyo Dome City's Adaptive Identity System
The Wind That Moves Us
Participatory Parallel Coordinates Visualized with String
2025
Isopleth Map
Isoline Map
The Structure of the Art World Revealed by Network Science
Comparing the Behavior of Locals and Tourists Through Tweets
Why Web Map Data Sometimes Mentions EPSG:4326 and Sometimes EPSG:3857
Word Cloud
Word Bubble
Scatterplot Matrix
How Matplotlib Moved from jet to Viridis
When a Map Projection Changed a Border: The 1990 U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement
Why the African Union Called for Moving Beyond the Mercator Projection
Classified Maps and Choropleth Maps: Data Processing and Map Representation
Distances from Major Airports to City Centers
What Is the Craig Projection?
Understanding Map Projection Distortion Through Faces: Projection Face
Tissot's Indicatrix
The Map Projection on the United Nations Flag
Rethinking Color Contrast: From WCAG 2.x to APCA
Vector Tile Style Specifications: Comparing Mapbox, MapLibre, and GSI
Understanding Normalization and Standardization with Google Sheets
Using Map Tiles Created in Mapbox Studio with Kepler.gl or Foursquare Studio
William Playfair's Statistical Representation of the United States of America
William Playfair Drew Two Different Kinds of Circular Charts
Three-Dimensional Cylindrical Polar Scatter Graph
The Invention of the Pie Chart
The Crocodile-Mouth Chart: A Japanese Metaphor for Fiscal Imbalance
Scatter Plot
Range Plot
Pie Chart
Line Chart
How to Choose Among Bar Chart Variants
Bubble Chart
Bar Chart
3D Scatterplot
Yield Curve
Waterfall Chart
Visualizing the Most Prolific Type Designers
Violin Plot
Vertical Trees and Horizontal Trees
Vector Field Map
Time-Series Linear Dendrogram
Symbol Chart
Strip Chart
Stem-and-Leaf Plot
Spiral Chart
Space-Time Cube
Ridgeline Plot
Radial Tree
Radial Bar Chart
Radar Chart
Isotype Chart
Hyperbolic Tree
Hive Plot
Histogram
Geography-Based Connection
Gauge Chart
Gapminder World Map 2010
Gantt Chart
Funnel Chart
Force-Directed Diagram
Dot Plot
Dot Map
Dot Density Map
Diverging Stacked Bar Chart
Density Plot
Correlogram
Circular Layout
Circular Chart
Circle Voronoi Treemaps
Chord Diagram
Candlestick Chart
Calendar Heatmap
Bullet Graph
Box-and-Whisker Plot
Bivariate Choropleth Map
BioFabric
Arc Diagram
Adjacency Matrix
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Boston Merchant: Visualizing Time and Space
3D Treemaps
3D Choropleth Map
3D Bar Chart Map
Visualizing Brain Drain
From First Publication to Masterpieces: Timelines of Literary Lives
Atlases of World History: How Historical Atlases Distort Historical Memory
What If the World's Continents Were Drawn on the Same Scale?
Up to 45% of Dementia Risk May Be Preventable: Visualizing Risk Factors Across the Life Course
Time-Distance Diagram
Ninomiya Sontoku and the Idea of Land Classification
Circle Packing
Venn Diagram
Further Education, Longer Life: Visualizing Education and Social Structure
Euler Diagram
Painters in the Making: Lives and Masterpieces
Nobels, No Degrees: Visualizing Genius Beyond Credentials
Minard's Map of Napoleon's March to Moscow
Visualizing The Memory of the World Register
Visualizing Progress Toward Gender Equality
Urban Story: Lisbon Is on a Par with Honolulu
Objects Launched into Space
Noise Pollution: Visualizing Urban Noise and Hearing Loss
Waffle Chart
Selling at Sundance: An Infographic on the Economics of Film
Stefanie Posavec's Visualization of On the Road
Geniuses, Visualized: Harold Bloom and the Kabbalistic Tree
A New Way to Read Shakespeare
TextArc: A Map for Looking at Alice
Sunburst Chart
Multicolor and Texture: A 1904 German Wheat-Yield Map
Mission(s) to Mars: Visualizing Challenge and Progress in Mars Exploration
History Flow: Visualizing Wikipedia's Invisible Battles
Digital Nostalgia: Visualizing Internet History in Life Online
(En)tangled Word Bank: Visualizing the Evolution of Darwin's Origin of Species
Polar Area Chart
Connected Scatterplot
Bump Chart
Mosaic Plot
Vaccine Confidence Cascade by Stefanie Posavec
The Origin of the Japanese Term "Quantity-Proportion Graph"
Radar Charts and Parallel Coordinates: A Debate About Readability
Parallel Sets
Debates and Alternatives Around the New York Times COVID-19 Spiral Visualization
Beeswarm Plot
Word Spectrum: Visualizing Word Relationships with Google-Scale Data
Visualizing the U.S. Federal Budget: Understanding USA and USAFacts
Newsmap: An Experiment in Seeing the News at a Glance
A South China Morning Post Infographic on Hong Kong's COVID-19 Outbreak
A Big Deal: Visualizing the Economic Scale of RCEP
A Dynamic Identity Reflecting Northern Norway: Visit Nordkyn
Reading Los Angeles Through Faces: Eugene Turner's Life in Los Angeles
Implementing Chernoff Faces in Data Analysis Languages
Design-Oriented Chernoff Faces
#ShowYourStripes: A Global Campaign that Speaks Climate Change Through Color
The 2011 MIT Media Lab Logo: Algorithmic Design Through Intersections
Provisional Inundation Depth Maps from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
Chernoff Faces
The Temperature Spiral and the Trajectory of Global Warming
Stock Prices Carved into Mountain Photography: Michael Najjar's High Altitude
Color Design in Kikikuru Disaster Risk Information
Algorithms That Reshape Terrain: From Kevin Slavin's TED Talk
Organizing Cognitive Biases by Task
Looking at Human Thought Through the Cognitive Bias Codex
Comparing Classifications of Cognitive Biases
A Statistical Chart Map of Transportation Infrastructure
A Railway Development Map Drawn with Circle Areas
Travel-Cost Distance Cartogram
Time-Distance Cartogram
Classification of Cartograms
Cartogram
How the Japanese Word for Statistics Became Established
Why Dual-Axis Charts Are Often Criticized, and When They Are Needed
2020
Examples of Focus+Context Techniques
Organizing Interaction in Visual Analytics
A Taxonomy of Interaction Techniques in Information Visualization
Drawing Charts with D3.js and Flexbox Instead of SVG
Data Visualization as a Medium for Communication
Visual Vocabulary
Scatterplot Matrix
Chart Catalogues by Task
Chart Catalogues by Data Type
Treemap
Examples of Treemaps
Why Venn Diagrams Fail for Three or More COVID-19 Symptoms
Florence Nightingale's Coxcomb Chart
A Cartogram Map as Edwin Reischauer's View Toward Japan
Examples of Vector Field Maps
Examples of Sunburst Charts
Examples of Dasymetric Maps
Dasymetric Map
Icicle Chart
Examples of Icicle Charts
Examples of Choropleth Maps
Choropleth Map
Statistical Symbol Map
Proportional Symbol Map
Graduated Symbol Map
Examples of Statistical Symbol Maps
Examples of Dot Maps
Examples of Dot Density Maps
Examples of Beeswarm Plots
Word Clouds and Word Bubbles
Slopegraph
Examples of Mosaic Plots
Examples of Bump Charts
Examples of Alluvial Diagrams
Euler Diagrams and Venn Diagrams
Alluvial Diagrams
Sankey Diagram
Fineo
Examples of Sankey Diagrams
Examples of Parallel Sets
The Similar Order in Which Color Names Appear Across Languages
Color Change, Physical Difference, and Psychological Effect
When COVID-19 Broke the Legend
A Critique of Critiques of Data Visualization
The Datasaurus Dozen
Streamgraph
Parallel Coordinates
Examples of Streamgraphs
Examples of Parallel Coordinates
What Are Small Multiples?
Examples of Chart Maps
Chart Map
Sketching for Sender-Oriented Information Visualization
Data Humanity for Those Who Remain
Information Visualization Examples from Government Agencies Around the World
The First Mars Image on Television Was a Data Visualization
Data Visualization and Infographic Works that Art Students Noticed in 2020
Katy Borner's Need-Driven Workflow Design
When a Person Learns a Word
Visualizing Friend Connections on Facebook
Tweets of Support from Around the World After March 11
Apache Superset, the Open Source BI Tool Developed at Airbnb
Uber H3
Different COVID-19 Death Counts for Tokyo in Official Sources
Tamara Munzner's Definition of Tasks: Targets
Tamara Munzner's Definition of Tasks: Actions
Why Visualize? Actions and Targets in Task Abstraction
What Changes When Moving from Desktop to Mobile Visualization?
What Is GeoJSON?
Data-Ink Ratio
Stevens' Power Law
Data Scale
Jenks Natural Breaks in Map Classification
Classification in QGIS
When fTools and GDALTools Are Missing in QGIS
EPSG Codes
The Seven Cs as an Alternative to LATCH
Four Cascade Levels for Complex Visualization Design Problems
Scientific Visualization and Information Visualization
2019
OpenRefine: GREL Date Function Pattern Characters
Edward Segel's Taxonomy of Data Storytelling
Overthinking This: Handmade Excessive Charts
Four AI Transcription Apps for Attending Overseas Conferences
Six Ways to Find Value in Tweets
JUDGIT!: Searching How National Project Budgets Are Used
Three Different Acts Called Data Visualization
Installing Tabula on Windows When Setup Fails
Data Visualization Creates Value When It Lands with the Audience
A Simple Auto-Reloading Local Server with Visual Studio Code and Live Server
