Jessica Edmondson visualized the history of rock music, from foundations in the pre-1900s…
Nathan Yau
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Timeline shows a century of rock history
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Happy new year around the world
New Year’s is a worldwide event, but as we know, it doesn’t happen…
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New members perk: Download all tutorials as ebook
The great thing about online tutorials is that you can access them from…
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How Netflix creates movie micro-genres
Alexis Madrigal and Ian Bogost for The Atlantic reverse engineered the Netflix genre…
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Body maps show where we feel emotion
Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.…
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Clusters of single malt Scotch whiskies
Luba Gloukhov of Revolution Analytics used k-means clustering to find groups of single…
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Statistics Done Wrong, a guide to common analysis mistakes
Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of…
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Weightless Project uses personal tracker data to abate hunger and obesity
The Weightless Project gives you another reason to use your Jawbone or Fitbit…
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Happy holidays
Checking out for the year. I assume most of you have already, and…
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FlowingData Job Board, December 2013
Looking to get a jumpstart on that new year’s resolution to find a…
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Iron Maiden uses piracy data for tour locations
When you hear “piracy data” and “music” in the same sentence, it usually…
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Evolution of reddit in stacked areas
Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare…
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Highway traffic reorganized by color
In the video above, filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker reorganized midday traffic by color. No…
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Military footprint
Similar to his collection of prison map snapshots, Josh Begley collected images of…
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Data scientist surpasses statistician on Google Trends
The relative interest in data scientist surpassed statistician this month. It was also…
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Earth wind map
Remember the wind map of the United States by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda…
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Network of subreddits
There are over 5,000 subreddits with plenty of overlap and similarities. Randy Olson…
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Data and visualization year in review, 2013
Visualization continues to mature and focus more on the data it represents than on novel designs and size. Let’s have a look back.
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Airport billboard encourages wonderment
Airports conjure thoughts of security, bag checks, and cramped spaces, and flights are…
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State gun laws since Newtown →
The New York Times explored state gun bills since Newtown.
In the 12…