Greg Ross highlights an old school graphic from The Strand Magazine, published in…
Nathan Yau
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Vintage literary stature graphic from 1906
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Code to make your own movie barcodes available
You know those compressed movie barcodes that we saw last week? Here’s a…
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The Like Log Study: Buzzwords and engagement
The Web is a game of pageviews, and outlets such as Twitter and…
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Best of digital news design winners announced
The Society for News Design announced the winners of their annual digital competition.…
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Chinese provinces compared to countries
It’s easy to forget just how big some countries are. For example, China:…
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Typographic world map and water colors
Typographic maps are all the rage these days. Instead of drawing well-defined boundary…
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Why sports statisticians should be more involved in games
Hot off the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Sean Gregory argues for more…
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WeatherSpark for more graphs about the weather than you will ever need
You know Matthew Ericson’s simple weather mashup? It shows only what you 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…