Network Visualization

Fun with links, nodes, and edges.

March Madness power rankings

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…

Character relationships in the Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem by Homer with a lot of characters…

Password reuse visualizer from Mozilla

When you use the same password for every online account, there could be…

Watching ‘wtf Wikipedia’ as SOPA/PIPA blackout begins

While SOPA and PIPA are no laughing matter (join the strike), the reaction…

Spot visualizes tweet commonalities

Twitter is an organic online location, full of retweets, conversations, and link sharing.…

High-resolution maps of science

While we’re on the topic of academic papers and how they’re linked, Johan…

Visualizing citations in research literature

From Autodesk Research, Citeology is an interactive that visualizes connections in academic research…

Backbone of the flavor network

Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a lot. Some cuisines use a…

Rise and fall of riot rumors on Twitter

During the riots in London this past summer, a lot of information spread…

What topics science lovers link to the most

Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bitly, examined links to 600 science pages and…

Who owes what to whom in Europe

As the Eurozone crisis develops, the BBC News has a look at what…

Politilines shows what candidates talk about during debates

If you don’t watch the candidate debates — and let’s face it, that’s…

Google+ Ripples show influence and how posts are shared

Posts and links get shared over and over again, but we usually don’t…

All numbers lead to one

In 1937, mathematician Lothar Collatz proposed that given the following algorithm, you will…

Who owns the beer

When you walk the beer aisle at the grocery store, there are lots…

Mobile patent lawsuits

Mike Bostock visualizes mobile patent lawsuits, improving on a graphic from Thomson Reuters…

People moving

Hundreds of thousands of people immigrate every year, with some countries seeing higher…

How tech companies are interconnected

Sarah Kessler and Nick Sigler examine the interconnectedness between major tech companies. I…