Bye bye tricky SVG alignments. Hello SVG-free data viz!

Leaning on CSS to simplify the process

The what, why, and how to use scrollama.js for your next scrollytelling story

Some pointers on learning to design data-driven visual essays.

Familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.

A look at actual data and how to deal with it

How (and why) the interactive chart was born

A guide to smoothing geospatial data in R

How to plan or adapt a scrollytelling story for mobile.

How to tackle a simple scroll-driven chart using six different libraries

Can you spell the hardest names in the NBA?

Every year the top high school basketball recruits get hyped up—do they pan out?

What makes a titletown in sports?

Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.

Warning: this video contains a high dosage of LeBron footage.

The greatest single-season anomalies in the last 30 years

Defining what a superteam is with data

Historic NBA games and plays, ranked by YouTube views

As of March 10, Russell Westbrook is averaging a triple-double.

Analyzing reviewed calls to rank NBA teams by favorable home court officiating

A review of the NBA officiating from the Last Two Minute Report

Using career stats to prove the best/worst NBA draft picks, ever

Identify the most statistically unlikely comebacks this season

We looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue represents women of all shades.

What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.

Tracking the rise in popularity from Cardi B to Carson Wentz

Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.

Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018

You already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.

What pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die

Kinshasa, DR Congo, a city of 13 million people has 13 departing flights per day.

No TMI here, just 20,759 people describing their experiences with contraception.

Fenty Beauty is a champion for makeup inclusivity. How do other brands compare?

Cookie recipes written by computers — what could go wrong?

Using data to write love letters to the cities we call home

How US culture dictates geographic restaurant patterns

Exploring over 30 million feelings towards 3,000+ topics

The frequency of dining alone

Using beer review data to rank the best cities in the country

Emerging slang, identified by searches for words’ definitions

Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium

The genius of Ali Wong’s Netflix special

The story behind the gender divide on This American Life

Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts

A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show

How are female characters in superhero comics depicted?

This is a story about how film plots mirror (or shape) historical events.

How much progress has American literature made towards gender equality?

Mapping the popularity of Oscar-nominated films in 2017

From the moment I sat down to listen the whole way through, I was done for...

From 2,000 screeplays, broken down by age and gender

The writers, directors, and producers who make films that fail the Bechdel test

How often do women’s issues appear in party platform documents over time?

What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress codes

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines

This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.

Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain

Tech retraining programs are becoming more popular. They may not be a solution.

Exploring 100 years of women in politics through data and machine learning

Exploring 100 years of women in parliament through data and machine learning

How “gayborhoods” in 15 major American cities are divided by gender

Brain death’s role in the uncertainties of death

The story you get depends on the channel you watch

Measuring racial diversity in journalism

Mapping the cities and places with the worst access

Job automation is only a matter of time. Here's why the right will benefit.

The past, present, and future of captive whales and dolphins

Births, broken down by geography and month

How we got here is one of the most debated questions in policy.

How do historic incarceration rates differ between slave and non-slave states?

Analyzing 12,147 images of Trump and Clinton

Today, there's no single way to measure popularity in music.

The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics

Every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980

Who has more emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo-rap or Dashboard Confessional?

An exploration into the music of skateboarding

We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places.

Today’s hit artists are take fewer risks and create a narrower range of sounds

Using math to rank words that are central to artists’ vocabularies

Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm

What three years and 75,000 shows tell us about the chance of success

An interactive story about the art of sampling

25 years after his death, you can find Davis' fingerprints on many other ideas.

Top 5 songs, from '58-'16, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good

Looking at playlists to learn how parts of culture perceive genres

Hip hop record labels, sorted by their artists' chart performance on Billboard

Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music

A look at Outkast's history through the lens of data