Graphics, data viz, words and code @washingtonpost // Trying to be a little bit better every day
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8 Sep 2016
i have no idea what this console error means, but damn does it cut right into my existential anxieties
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
31 Jul 2025
In yesterday's @washingtonpost we published a portion of the known names of 18,500 Gazan children killed in the war. We could only fit 18% of the names on these 2 pages — it would have taken 5 more pages to list them all.
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26 Feb 2025
As usual @JStein_WaPo says it best 🙂
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Incredible work by @Timmeko @asteckelberg @lmshap @AdrianBlancoR and @sfrostenson visualizing every vote this presidential election as a grain of sand
washingtonpost.com/elections…
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
27 Mar 2024
If the avg. American was in Gaza, this is what it'd mean for their family and friends.
"After five months of war, seven would be dead."
Powerful framing and statistics from @alyssafowers, @lmshap, @catebrown12, Hajar Harb. washingtonpost.com/world/int…
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2 Feb 2024
one of the most fun projects i've ever worked on :-)
i built an interactive beat maker, using the extremely cool and underrated ✨Web Audio API✨, to help you *hear* the story of how reggaeton beats evolved (& make your own beats!).
wapo.st/480gwGj
2 Feb 2024
Make your own reggaeton beat using our virtual drum machine — part of an audible tour through the genre’s evolution, from Jamaican dancehall to dembow: wapo.st/480gwGj
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
5 Dec 2023
Workers @washingtonpost have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months.
But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.
So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.
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16 Nov 2023
got to spend a week answering a question i've long had. the answer, as you might expect, is much deeper than i imagined: washingtonpost.com/science/i…
(also i got to draw lots and lots of leaves!! 🍃🍂)
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23 Oct 2023
Some tech notes for the nerds: I built the viz here in plain old canvas/javascript (in React), with a RAF loop for animations: washingtonpost.com/world/int…
I tried *a lot* of implementations (SVG, P5, animation libs). This was by far the most performant and easiest to manage!
23 Oct 2023
When generative art makes the A1 :)
Sunday's front page was our story on the U.S. life expectancy gap, feat. a print version of the generative rings I built for online.
You can see your own personalized version of this viz in our online story: washingtonpost.com/world/int…
ALT Image of the Washington Post front page from Sunday 10/22, featuring a generative visualization of life expectancy
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23 Oct 2023
When generative art makes the A1 :)
Sunday's front page was our story on the U.S. life expectancy gap, feat. a print version of the generative rings I built for online.
You can see your own personalized version of this viz in our online story: washingtonpost.com/world/int…
ALT Image of the Washington Post front page from Sunday 10/22, featuring a generative visualization of life expectancy
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26 Jun 2023
the wapo paywall is off until thursday (!!!) and we have this HOT NEW STORY about FONTS just in time 😉 washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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26 Jun 2023
this version of the link is an especially fun one to click :-) washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
26 Jun 2023
We're those weirdos.
Our latest: What’s your type? How fonts change the way you read and write.
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
28 Mar 2023
I do not give a flying FUCK about Fonts... Weirdo shit.
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
15 Nov 2022
The World population has just reached 8 billion people.
@sadbumblebee @lmshap @RubyMellen and Hailey Haymond worked on this big visual story that includes a calculator to check how many people like you are int he planet
(I'm one in 367,900)
washingtonpost.com/world/int…
ALT Calculator showing how mnay people of the same age, country and gender are in the world right now. With the options 42 years old, from Spain and male, the calculator shows 367,900 persons.
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
19 Jul 2022
“Cut Short” by @alyssafowers @lmshap of the Washington Post reads like a story, introducing a fraction of the 1 million individuals who died of COVID. @ClaireESantoro's interview explores this powerful work and the choice to visualize #qualitative data nightingaledvs.com/cut-short…
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
27 May 2022
🚗⛽️ Planning to hit the road on Memorial Day weekend? We built a gas calculator that tells you how much you’ll pay at the pump (spoiler alert: it’s a lot more than in pre-covid times!). wapo.st/3LNRGOJ w/ @lmshap @n_kirkpatrick @dataKateR
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Leslie Shapiro retweeted
18 May 2022
Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. @lmshap and I marked one million deaths from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the pandemic: what they loved doing and what they wanted to do next. washingtonpost.com/health/in…
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13 Aug 2021
New: an interactive look at racial demographic change since 1990, for every census tract in the country!
wapo.st/census-race-change
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21 Jul 2021
New version of a story we first did back in May, looking at the covid case rate when the vaxxed population is factored in.
One big diff: In May, low-vax states were actually looking better than some high-vax states.
With the delta surge, that's over.
washingtonpost.com/health/in…
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21 May 2021
new story with @dtkeating on a seemingly simple but overlooked covid rate issue:
as more people are vaxxed, covid cases/hospitalizations are concentrated among the unvaxxed... which means their risk is actually much greater than general pop rates reflect. washingtonpost.com/health/in…
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1 Apr 2021
𝓢 𝓞 𝓞 𝓝 . . .
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
ALT Illustration of a Brood X cicada with the text "Soon, they will emerge."
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1 Apr 2021
ok but for real all the graphics in here by @arturgalocha are great!!
ALT Graphic showing what 30 cicadas per square foot looks like (very crowded).
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