I make charts and the tools that make charts. Currently a staff data visualization engineer at Netflix; before that, a decade in journalism as senior editor for data visualization at FiveThirtyEight, a reporter at Quartz, and a science writer at The New York Times. I also wrote Visual Storytelling with D3, an introduction to making charts for the web.
State-by-state win probabilities, polls, and the many ways the presidential election could go.
A hands-on demonstration of p-hacking: prove either party is better for the economy, just by tweaking your variables.
The fastest airline on every domestic route, mined from millions of flight records.
Seven ways to redraw every congressional district in America. I edited this one — coordinating the cartography, data, and design.
How bitcoin actually works, explained with animated graphics — and a twist: the article itself “mines” as you read.
The New York Times, 2011–2012 — gift links, free to read.
Visual Storytelling with D3 (Addison-Wesley, 2014) — an introduction to data visualization for the web, walking through a complete project from raw data to a finished interactive.
“I’ll buy Ritchie a beer if I ever run into him.” — an Amazon reviewer