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The animated map starts slow with the first location in Arkansas in 1962 and then spreads like a wildfire. When did your nearest Walmart open?
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America, Interactive Edition -
A little over a week ago, I was in Bremen for the Data Viz VI conference. Read that Data Viz 6 - not Data Viz V.I., as I thought through …
Reflecting On the Data Viz VI Conference -
For those who want more out of the commonly-used mapping APIs from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc, but don't want to get too heavy on the programming, Mapstraction is for you. …
Map With All the Common APIs at Once - Mapstraction -
The New York Times shows how presidential candidates have spent more than $900 million so far with this bubbly graphic by Lee Byron, Hannah Fairfield and Griff Palmer. The area …
Playful Infographics Triumph Over Pure Analytics (Sometimes) -
The Girl Effect - "the idea that adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world" - is portrayed in this beautiful video using …
The Girl Effect - Beautiful Use of Animated Typography -
Infographics Movie: Cost of the War In Iraq
In the time that it takes you to watch this movie, the US government will have spent $500,000 towards the war in Iraq. At least that's what this Atari-sounding clip … -
The colmeia group recently installed their Caffeine Viewer project where they hacked their coffee maker to log their "insane coffee consumption" in real-time. Every time a person presses a button …
Hacking the Coffee Maker - Caffeine Viewer -
As you might have noticed, I haven't been live blogging the Data Viz VI conference here in Bremen. I arrived Tuesday evening and on Wednesday, the first day of the …
Statistical Graphics Conference - Jet Lag Wins. I Lose. -
Mark Coleran has hands down one of the best jobs in the world. He makes infographics for feature films. His résumé includes Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, …
Coolest Design Job Ever - Infographics in the Movies -
This organic visualization, code_swarm by Michael Ogawa from UC Davis, has been making the rounds on the Web lately, and rightfully so. The data: history of commits to a software …
An Experiment in Organic Software Visualization
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