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Sales receipt redesign
Design firm Berg rethinks the everyday sales receipt under the premise that registers…
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Complete Volume 1 from 1987, available for free
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Hitler learns topology
In another reword of the pivotal scene in Der Untergang, Adolf Hitler learns…
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Organizational charts in major tech
Manu Cornet caricaturizes org charts of major tech companies, such as Amazon with…
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Custom maps in Processing
Till Nagel teaches you how to design custom maps in Processing with TileMill.…
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Takin’ data to the streets. Word.
Whenever I’m out late at night with my bottle of black spray paint…
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A year of food consumption visualized
My pending thesis is on personal data collection (i.e. quantified self, personal informatics,…
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DataBot mouse makes larger files physically harder to move
Files and folders on your computer look and feel the same regardless of…
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Anatomy of a computer virus explained
Motion designer Patrick Clair tells the story of Stuxnet, “a Microsoft Windows computer…
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Elements of Happiness: A happy life depicted in diagrams
For several decades, Harvard Laboratory of Adult Development has chronicled the lives of…
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Dotspotting to make city data more legible
Last year Stamen Design received a grant from the Knight News Challenge to…
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Average color of NYC skies, every five minutes
The color of the sky changes through the day and into the night…
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Sufficiently large X
As comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal explains, this is what happens when a…
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Imagining the future of information graphics
While information graphics have been around for decades, their current form is brand…
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Words used in commencement speeches
If you’ve visited YouTube in the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably noticed…
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Award-nominated movies vs. highest grossing
Dorothy Gambrell of very small array continues with her fascination of movie quality…
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Data Without Borders
Data is everywhere, but use of data is not. So many of our…
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Inbox Influence shows political contributions by the people in your email
While browser plugins like Rapportive tell you the social networks that people in…
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Most common iPhone passcodes
Some people use a passcode on their iPhones simply to prevent their kids…