It can feel like there’s so many rules of visualization that it’s impossible to make a proper visualization. The key: Nothing is absolute.
Nathan Yau
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Charting Pitfalls, Flexible Guidelines, Exceptions to the Rules
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Synesthesia used to paint numbers through color
Lucy Engelman has synesthesia, which is a perceptual response where one sensory pathway…
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Visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations
Peter Beshai was tasked with visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations. He arrived…
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What data scientists really do
Statistics. I kid, I kid. Hugo Bowne-Anderson, host of the DataFramed podcast, culled…
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World Cup play activity visualized like wind maps
A fun experiment by Neil Charles that used the aesthetics of wind maps…
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2018 House forecast from FiveThirtyEight
Ever since the huge forecasting upset in 2016, I’ve tended to stay away…
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A visual analysis of jean pockets and their lack of practicality
Frustrated with the size of pockets on women’s pants, Jan Diehm and Amber…
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Visualization Away from the Computer, Developing Ideas, Bring in the Constraints
Made-by-hand visualization has been making a mini comeback as of late, and it’s been fun to see what people do with data away from the computer.
Of course, we don’t have the time to draw every chart and map by hand, but there are some parts of the practice we can use in our own work.
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More wildfires than ever
Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News delves into the increasing number of wildfires in…
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Scale of the California wildfires
The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…
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Cartography Playground
Map-making is a tricky business with many variables to consider that can directly…
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Optical illusion shows our messed up lightness perception
A gray piece of paper moves along a gradient. You won’t believe your…
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A transforming river seen from above
The Padma River in Bangladesh is constantly shifting its 75-mile path. Joshua Stevens…
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Robot arm seeks out Waldo, using machine learning
The camera on the slightly creepy arm takes a picture of the pages…
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Analysis of fake YouTube views
Wherever more attention or the appearance of it equates to more money, there…
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Aerial view of sheepdogs herding sheep
Sometimes the visualization takes care of itself. Photographer Tim Whittaker filmed sheepdogs herding…
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Charting the similarity of summer songs
Popular summer songs have had a bubbly, generic feel to them the past…
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Detailed Intentions of a Map, When Everything Leads to Nothing, Designing for Misinterpretations
The New York Times published an election map. A lot of people did not like the map, arguing that it was an inaccurate representation. Those who did like the map argued that one must consider intent before throwing a map to the flames.
What happens when intended use and actual use do not match up?
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Visualizations using Play-Doh
We usually visualize data on computers, because it’s where the data exists and…
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Collection of data visualization pitfalls
There are many mistakes you can make when you first get into visualization.…