2012

And visualization is useless without data; you do the math.

The Forest of Advocacy is a series of animations that explores the political…

When you Google “bacon number” followed by an actor’s name, you’ll get the degrees of separation

Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose

Aaron Rueben and Gabriel Isaacman used data from sampling air in tunnels, where…

Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…

New course on how social, economic and technological structures interact

Video tutorials on using Illustrator by professor Mike Wirth

Alberto Cairo’s newly translated book on information graphics, The Functional Art, is a…

Old, but I keep coming back to it. Simple use of ImportHtml() function brings an HTML table into spreadsheet

As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…

Kat Downs, Laura Stanton and Karen Yourish of The Washington Post look at…

After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…

Tutorial based on the NYT graphic on word use at the National Conventions

Including the Economist, Stata, and oh yes, Excel 2003 [via]

Nate Silver says the weatherman is not a moron.
Still, most people take…

From data graphics to art, it’s a continuous spectrum; last sentence of article includes a lot more people though

A wishful syllabus by NPR news app head

Ways to display data based on vision and variables

Taking it from paper and pencil sketch to illustration