Visualizing How Sorting Algorithms Work Is as Good as Any Art

We don’t need to tell you that data can be beautiful—but the process of putting it in order can look pretty darn good, too. A new site called SORTING aims to make people aware of just how elegant some of computer science’s most fundamental algorithms can be. Read more…        

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The Entire Racial Distribution of the US, Person-By-Person

This map is covered in dots. In fact, there are 308, 745, 538 of the little things—each one representing a single individual living in the US, and its color indicating ethnicity. Read more…        

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The Entire Racial Distribution of the US, Person-By-Person

The World’s Biggest Data Breaches, Visualized

It sometimes feels like there’s a big data breach in the news every week—but some are far worse than others. This data visulization shows the world’s biggest data breaches to date, and how they compare over time. Read more…        

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The World’s Biggest Data Breaches, Visualized

How Americans Speak Differently in Various Regions, Visualized

Depending on where you’re from and where you’ve lived in the United States, you probably say things a little differently than people from other parts of the country. You’ve experienced this, but you’ve never seen how the regional dialects of the United States break down quite so cleanly. Read more…        

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How Americans Speak Differently in Various Regions, Visualized