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.

Twenty years, one chart. Explore the full interactive résumé →

Interactive Projects

2016 Election Forecast FiveThirtyEight · 2016

FiveThirtyEight’s forecast of the presidential election: state-by-state win probabilities, polls, and the many ways it could go.

Hack Your Way to Scientific Glory FiveThirtyEight · 2015

A hands-on demonstration of p-hacking: prove that either Republicans or Democrats are better for the economy, just by tweaking your variables.

Which Flight Will Get You There Fastest? FiveThirtyEight · 2015

The fastest airline on every domestic route, mined from millions of flight records — plus a lookup for your own itinerary.

The Atlas of Redistricting FiveThirtyEight · 2018 · editor

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

Graphics-Driven Explainers

By reading this page, you are mining bitcoins Quartz · 2013

How bitcoin actually works, explained with animated graphics — and a twist: the article itself “mines” as you read.

Writing

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

The Book

Cover of Visual Storytelling with D3

Visual Storytelling with D3 (Addison-Wesley, 2014) is an introduction to data visualization for the web — walking through a complete project, from raw data to a finished interactive, with JavaScript’s D3 library.

“I have read several D3 books and this is still a favourite.” — Amazon reviewer

“I’ll buy Ritchie a beer if I ever run into him.” — another Amazon reviewer