I regularly post my work on Reddit’s DataisBeautiful, likely the largest dataviz community in the world. It’s brought me decent personal benefits–my post on coloring roads by suffix became popular and ended up escaping the Reddit orbit into the general internet, which was super neat. It’s also got drawbacks. When I post and my work…
And now for something completely different! I’m kidding, it’s more maps. I’ve been wanting to make a map of the polar regions for a while–it’s a fun perspective that you don’t see very often (and everyone loves a good circle!)–but I didn’t have a dataset that would lend itself well to being mapped…
This project, like the one before it, started as an offshoot of another project that I’ll finish… someday… I start one project, which brings up questions I need to answer in other projects, so I start those projects, which lead to more questions… and before I know it I have a tangled mess that’ll take…
Most one-hit wonder analyses focus on the time the song spent on the charts, and whether the artist ever charted again. For this analysis, I was interested in something a bit different–what are the biggest one hit wonders as defined by current listening data? In other words, what songs make up the highest percentage of…
First things first: I couldn’t think of anything better to call this project, so the poorly-defined “Topography of Tea” will have to do. Second things second: my office provides a sampling of Bigelow teas. The staples, like English Breakfast, plain green tea, and mint tea, tend to always be in stock, but whoever purchases these…
Geoff Boeing’s Street Network Orientation visualization really caught my imagination when it was published last year. It’s such a simple, beautiful way to illustrate the patterns around us we may not otherwise notice. On my Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities work, lots of Reddit comments mentioned that Avenues in their city tend to run north-south…
This is one of those projects I thought would be a quick and easy way to play with the sf package and ended up being a hellish slog through Photoshop. My vague starting notion was to extract all international borders and arrange them in some visually pleasing way. I started by testing my ideas out…
Last Halloween, I was blown away by Joshua Stevens’ Graveyards of the Contiguous USA. Very often, mapping individual locations of attractions just creates, essentially, a population-density map, and it was really exciting to see one that didn’t. I also loved seeing the traces of the country’s history in the unusual distribution of graveyards. This Halloween,…
The response to The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities was way more positive than I ever expected! There’s been some demand for prints–they’re available now on Society6. If you’d like a custom city that hasn’t been done yet, drop me a line and I’ll make it available for purchase! Of course, you’re always free to download/print…
After finishing my map of the most common road suffixes by length, I realized I could also map each individual road, colored by its suffix. This has led to the loveliest maps I’ve made. Driving around your city, you’re probably somewhat aware of Avenues and Boulevards and Streets and Roads and so on. Here in…