State of the Art: Exemplary Cases by Category

Interactive Dashboards

Exploration with filters and facets

• COVID-19 Dashboard, Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
• HealthCare.gov Explorer, Wall Street Journal
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, Carnegie Mellon University
• It wasn’t always the east - where Germany chooses on the right, Berliner Morgenpost
• Election 2016 Results, The Guardian

Small multiples

• Treatment Tracker with details of Medicare’s 2015 payments, ProPublica
• Ambulances for Dialysis Patients on Rise, ProPublica
• Workers’ Comp Benefits: How Much is a Limb Worth?, ProPublica

Motion pictures with time series data

Animated visualizations that have a temporal dimension. Users may be able to pause the animation to view the screenshot at a specific time node.

• World Development Indicator
• 35 Years Of American Death, FiveThirtyEight
• Reading the rriots, The Guardian

Narratives

Visualizations where episodes are revealed with user interactions, such as scrolling.

• A Disappearing Planet, ProPublica
• The Stories Behind a Line, Federica Fragapane with Alex Piacentini
• Charting Germany - Tracking a Nation’s Changes, Zeit Online
• How Belgium’s heating up

Real-time data streaming

Visualizations that use live data, instead of historical data, to create a product.

• Wind Map, HINT.FM
• Earth Wind Map, Nullschoool
• Twin Cities Buses, Shiny from R Studio
• F Bomb

User Contribution

• The Death of a Terrorist: A Turning Point?, The New York Times

Quizzes and games

Entries of data by users are checked against the database.

• You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s College Chances, The New York Times
• How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk, The New York Times
• The Uber Game, Financial Times

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