Nadhir on DataNotes across the data disciplines

Real-World Examples

Newsroom

Film Dialogue, by Gender, by The Pudding

Film Dialogue, by Gender

The Pudding · 2017

Human Terrain

Matt Daniels, The Pudding · 2018

Demography · interactive

You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s College Chances

The New York Times, The Upshot · 2015

Education · interactive

What’s Really Warming the World?

Bloomberg · 2015

Climate · interactive

The Rhythm of Food

Moritz Stefaner and Google News Lab · 2017

Food and search behaviour · interactive

Visualizing the Number of Costco Stores, by Country, by Visual Capitalist

Visualizing the Number of Costco Stores, by Country

Visual Capitalist · 2023

The Bush tax cuts chart

Fox News · 2012

Tax policy · static image

Gun deaths in Florida, with the axis upside down

Reuters · 2014

Gun policy · static image

The crossing lines shown in Congress

Americans United for Life, shown at a congressional hearing · 2015

Health politics · static image

Georgia’s COVID-19 cases, with the dates shuffled

Georgia Department of Public Health · 2020

Public health · static image

Public statistics

Life expectancy, in the Our World in Data grapher, by Our World in Data

Life expectancy, in the Our World in Data grapher

Our World in Data

CO₂ emissions against GDP per capita

Our World in Data

Climate and economics · interactive

US unemployment rate (UNRATE)

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Labour economics · interactive

The 10 year minus 2 year Treasury spread

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Fixed income · interactive

IMF DataMapper, World Economic Outlook

International Monetary Fund

Macroeconomics · interactive

Gapminder Tools: the animated bubble chart

Gapminder Foundation

Global development · interactive

Warming stripes, by Ed Hawkins, University of Reading

Warming stripes

Ed Hawkins, University of Reading · 2018

The first line, bar and pie charts, by William Playfair

The first line, bar and pie charts

William Playfair · 1786

The Georgia Negro: data portraits for the Paris Exposition, by W. E. B. Du Bois and his students at Atlanta University

The Georgia Negro: data portraits for the Paris Exposition

W. E. B. Du Bois and his students at Atlanta University · 1900

Science & health

The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard

Johns Hopkins University · 2020

Public health · dashboard

WHO COVID-19 dashboard

World Health Organization

Public health · dashboard

Global temperature anomaly

NASA

Climate · interactive

John Snow’s cholera map, by John Snow

John Snow’s cholera map

John Snow · 1854

Minard’s map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign, by Charles Joseph Minard

Minard’s map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign

Charles Joseph Minard · 1869

Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East, by Florence Nightingale

Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East

Florence Nightingale · 1858

Mendeleev’s periodic table, by Dmitri Mendeleev

Mendeleev’s periodic table

Dmitri Mendeleev · 1869

The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell

The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell · 1911

The Keeling Curve

Charles David Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography · 1958

Climate · interactive

Flatten the curve, by Adapted from a CDC pandemic planning graphic

Flatten the curve

Adapted from a CDC pandemic planning graphic · 2020

The night-before charts on the Challenger O-rings

Morton Thiokol engineers, for NASA · 1986

Engineering safety · static image

The foam-strike slide, Columbia

Boeing, for NASA · 2003

Engineering safety · static image

History & power

The partition of Africa, by The European powers at the Berlin Conference

The partition of Africa

The European powers at the Berlin Conference · 1884

The Sykes–Picot map, by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot

The Sykes–Picot map

Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot · 1916

The Nuremberg Laws classification chart

Nazi Germany · 1935

Persecution · static image

The skull and profile plates of “scientific racism”

Nott and Gliddon, Types of Mankind, and others · 1854

Pseudoscience · static image

The original Gerry-Mander, by Elkanah Tisdale, Boston Gazette

The original Gerry-Mander

Elkanah Tisdale, Boston Gazette · 1812

The Mercator projection, by Gerardus Mercator

The Mercator projection

Gerardus Mercator · 1569

Finance & trading

A TradingView symbol page

TradingView

Markets · interactive

The Finviz market map

Finviz

Markets · interactive

The daily Treasury yield curve

US Department of the Treasury

Fixed income · interactive

Business dashboards

The Power BI Retail Analysis sample

Microsoft

Retail · dashboard

Viz of the Day

Tableau Public community

Mixed · dashboard

The Looker Studio report gallery

Google

Marketing and web analytics · dashboard

Cloud & DevOps

Grafana Play, the live demo instance

Grafana Labs

Infrastructure monitoring · dashboard

The Grafana community dashboard library

Grafana Labs and contributors

Infrastructure monitoring · dashboard

Amazon CloudWatch dashboards

Amazon Web Services

Cloud operations · dashboard

The GitHub contribution graph

GitHub

Software work · interactive

Video & social

Four in a hundred, as leaves

World of Statistics · 2026

Diet · static image

The German Bundestag as a room full of seats

World of Statistics · 2026

Politics · static image

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes, by Hans Rosling, BBC

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

Hans Rosling, BBC · 2010

The economy, explained by a cartoon news bulletin, by The Amazing World of Gumball, Cartoon Network

The economy, explained by a cartoon news bulletin

The Amazing World of Gumball, Cartoon Network

A school presentation, played for laughs, by Abbott Elementary, posted by BET International

A school presentation, played for laughs

Abbott Elementary, posted by BET International

Essence of linear algebra, by 3Blue1Brown

Essence of linear algebra

3Blue1Brown

Commits in 2020 against 2026, as two contribution calendars

Mounir Laggoune, Finary · 2026

Software work · video

The bar chart race, by Flourish, after a format popularised on social feeds

The bar chart race

Flourish, after a format popularised on social feeds

Data art

Dear Data

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec · 2015

Personal data · physical

earth: a global map of wind, weather and ocean conditions, by Cameron Beccario

earth: a global map of wind, weather and ocean conditions

Cameron Beccario

Earth Temperature Timeline, by Randall Munroe, xkcd

Earth Temperature Timeline

Randall Munroe, xkcd · 2016

The London Underground diagram, by Harry Beck

The London Underground diagram

Harry Beck · 1933

Collected

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