An interactive graphic showing projected and real U.S. national budgets. Adapted from Budget Forecasts, Compared With Reality by Amanda Cox, The New York Times (February 2, 2010).
Often credited as the founder of statistical graphics, William Playfair published this chart in 1822 in a letter to Parliament. It shows 250 years of the price of wheat, typical weekly wages of a mechanic, and the reigning monarch. He intended to demonstrate that "never at any former period was wheat so cheap, in proportion to mechanical labour, as it is at the present time."
The population of the German city of Falkensee over time, by Dominik Moritz. Based on an image from Wikipedia.
A collection of small multiple area charts, showing average daily temperatures in Seattle for each hour of the day.
Weekly weather data depicting ranges of record temperatures (light gray), normal temperatures (dark gray), actual temperatures (solid black) and forecasted temperatures (black barbells, with thick ends indicating forecasted ranges for high and low values).
A ridgeline plot showing the prevalence of various food and beverage categories in Seattle’s University District. Similar to a violin plot, this plot uses a continuous approximation of discrete data computed using kernel density estimation (KDE).