The beauty of this diagram is its simplicity you can see quickly all the various spellings and how common they each are. As a big of GOT fan, I find myself utterly enthralled in this and spent around 20 minutes playing around with it – a sure sign of a good piece of visualization.Ĭolin Morris – People’s attempt to spell ‘Gyllenhaal’ Split out into sections for direct interactions, vocabulary used, sentiment for each character, and a final part on how the data was used. This incredible data visualization allows you to explore the relationships between characters of every season of the popular TV show game of Thrones.

This really added something new and unique, showing the Democratic or Republican swing for the whole of the US. The Guardian especially did a great job of this, with their arrow map. The midterms saw a lot of media organisations setup their own dedicated results page explaining the data in various ways. The level of coverage and quality when it comes to election results has continued to improve over the last few years and 2018 was no different. I’m not normally a fan of music within visualization, but I think it works really well here.

What caught my eye about this piece of visualization was the impressive level of detail and how they’ve shown this in such an interesting and attractive way. immigration 1790-2016įirst off, the winner of the Information is Beautiful award for most beautiful visualization, showing immigration in the US over time.

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