You know Matthew Ericson’s simple weather mashup? It shows only what you need…
Nathan Yau
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WeatherSpark for more graphs about the weather than you will ever need
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Billionaires, apples, and other things
The World’s Billionaires — Forbes publishes their annual list of the world’s richest…
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Japanese quake and predicted tsunami wave heights
The New York Times maps the reach of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan.…
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Animation: North and South Poles melting away
Adrian Meyer and Karl Rege of Zurich University of Applied Sciences visualize the…
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History and origins of science fiction
Artist Ward Shelley maps the history of science fiction in painstaking detail. See…
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Data-Driven Documents for visualization in the browser
As we know, browsers keep getting better, and it grows easier every day…
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Watching the growth of Costco warehouses
Costco is one of the best stores ever. It’s got everything you need…
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Review: Beautiful Visualization – Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
I finally got a chance to take a closer look at O’Reilly’s most…
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Entire movies compressed into single barcodes
Choice of color in a movie can say a lot about what’s going…
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Well-being of the nation mapped
Analyzing Facebook and Twitter updates to gauge happiness is all the rage these…
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Test your Rock-Paper-Scissors strategy against the machine
We learned the strategy to win Rock-Paper-Scissors every time, but does it really…
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Best of FlowingData – February 2011
February was a good month. We continue to inch closer towards the 50k-subscriber…
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Countdown to the end of Internet Explorer 6
If you’ve ever designed for the Web, you know what a pain it…
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Vincent van Gogh paintings as pie charts
Arthur Buxton breaks down van Gogh paintings for a view of color schemes.…
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Friday freebies: Visual history posters from Timeplots – winners announced
It’s Friday, and the weekend’s staring you in the face. You look like…
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Most typical person in the world
Continuing their series on world population, National Geographic focuses in on the “most…
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Lego cartograms show immigration and migration
LEGOs were my favorite toy growing up. This was back when the pieces…
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Tiger blood and adonis DNA
There are no words. More tips on winning in the world found here.…
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RStudio: a new IDE for R that makes coding easier
I tweeted this out earlier, but people are really excited about RStudio, an…
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German defense minister’s plagiarized PhD dissertation visualized
As some of you might know, Germany’s defense minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, resigned…