Ritchie S. King

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.

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The last 24 years for me

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Interactive Projects

Rescued from the FiveThirtyEight archives and rehosted here. The teasers below aren’t screenshots — they’re the real, working graphics. Click around.

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Democratic gerrymander
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District partisan breakdown: Democratic gerrymander
Proportionally partisan
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District partisan breakdown: Proportionally partisan
Majority minority
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District partisan breakdown: Majority minority
Highly competitive
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District partisan breakdown: Highly competitive
Compact (borders)
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District partisan breakdown: Compact (borders)
Compact (algorithmic)
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District partisan breakdown: Compact (algorithmic)
Current
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District partisan breakdown: Current
Republican gerrymander
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District partisan breakdown: Republican gerrymander

all 435 districts, redrawn seven ways — the current map for comparison

The Atlas of Redistricting

FiveThirtyEight · Jan 2018 · editor

Seven ways to redraw every congressional district in America. I edited this one — coordinating the cartography, data, and design.

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The Book

Cover of Visual Storytelling with D3

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

Graphics-Driven Explainers

Writing

The New York Times, 2011–2012 — gift links, free to read.