2012

Don’t like the title, but the (free) report could be worthwhile

Brian Ball and M. E. J. Newman analyzed friendship data from a high…

Improving on gradient-filled bar charts with clarity [via]

Mostly a correlation with geography

Easy way to add a pie chart as your favicon, to update loading progress

Streamgraph seems to be growing into de facto chart type for Twitter trends

They just need to learn how to use bar charts

Expanding on his Vincent van Gogh pie charts, Arthur Buxton minimalized famous paintings…

Renee DiResta got to wondering about state stereotypes, so she looked them up…

A critique of the arms trade interactive from Google

Thousands of people have attended Edward Tufte’s one-day course on data graphics. Robert…

Tutorials on working with government data

Redesign kinda works, but some might argue that Wikipedia’s barebones approach is a reason for its success

I went on a backup spree after reading this

Meters, by Berlin-based designers Patrick Kochlik and Monika Hoinkis, celebrates the joy of…

In the what-happens-when-technology-takes-over-our-lives genre, Sight by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, imagines a…

Import all FEC data from 1980 and beyond into PostgreSQL database

NYT put links to all the graphics they’ve done on one page

I’ve never played Portal 2 (or the first), but I suspect some of…

Kosara didn’t like it, which is what I expected