Data continues on its upwards trajectory and with it comes the importance of visualization.

Google Fonts now provides two open source fonts by Dmitry Ivanov that let you make simplified, small to medium line and bar charts.

Every year, I pick my favorite data visualization projects, which tend to cover a wide range of purposes but are typically for presentation.

This is a story about pizza, geometry, and making sure you get what you paid for.

Say what you will about circular visualization, but the spiral plays. This one from NASA shows global temperature change over time.

Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.

FlowingData turned 14 years old last week. Is that old? It feels old. The site started as a sandbox to put class projects.

It’s been a year. We saw a lot of charts. These are the best ones.

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.

I thought we (i.e. me) could use a break, so I made these abstract charts to represent the most popular quotes about hope on Goodreads.

A lot of the time when I meet someone new, the name goes in one ear and out the other.

My main goal for Flowing Data this year was to make charts. I hoped to make one chart per week, along with the newsletter and tutorials.

Visualization is a relatively new field, but we seem to be developing an understanding of what it is and what it can be used for.

When you think emergency room, you often think real emergencies.

In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to represent the number of animals left for endangered species.

We use some names for boys and some for girls, but then there is a small percentage of names that, over time, switched from one gender to another.

How has time use changed during the past 15 years?

Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ.