Hexagon

An hexagon is a shape.

An hexagon has six sides.

A hexagon has six sides.

A triangle has three angles, and a hexagon has six angles.

A triangle has 3 corners, and a hexagon has 6 corners.

France looks like a hexagon.

France resembles a hexagon.

France is shaped like a hexagon.

Connect Sirius, the Gemini twins, Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, and then back to Sirius, and you have completed the Great Hexagon!

A hexagon has six angles and six sides.

The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt.

If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.