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  • Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America, Interactive Edition Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America, Interactive Edition

    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?
  • Reflecting On the Data Viz VI Conference Reflecting On the Data Viz VI Conference

    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 …
  • Map With All the Common APIs at Once - Mapstraction Map With All the Common APIs at Once - Mapstraction

    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. …
  • Playful Infographics Triumph Over Pure Analytics (Sometimes) Playful Infographics Triumph Over Pure Analytics (Sometimes)

    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 …
  • The Girl Effect - Beautiful Use of Animated Typography The Girl Effect - Beautiful Use of Animated Typography

    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 …
  • 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 …
  • Hacking the Coffee Maker - Caffeine Viewer Hacking the Coffee Maker - Caffeine Viewer

    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 …
  • Statistical Graphics Conference - Jet Lag Wins. I Lose. Statistical Graphics Conference - Jet Lag Wins. I Lose.

    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 …
  • Coolest Design Job Ever - Infographics in the Movies Coolest Design Job Ever - Infographics in the Movies

    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, …
  • An Experiment in Organic Software Visualization An Experiment in Organic Software Visualization

    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 …
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