I finally got a chance to take a closer look at O’Reilly’s most…
Nathan Yau
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Review: Beautiful Visualization – Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
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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…
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March Madness bracketology – winners and losers
Working off last year’s bracketology graphic, Leonardo Aranda took a simpler approach in…
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Lots of health data released via Health Indicators Warehouse
The government has been making a big push for more open health-related data,…
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Global Android activations mapped and animated
iPhone gets all the glory, but there are plenty of Android phones activated…
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FlowingData is brought to you by…
Big thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. This little blog of mine wouldn’t be…
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Visual evidence that movies are getting worse
Moki takes a page out of the OkCupid social media playbook and analyzes…
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Painting with light to show WiFi networks
WiFi is everywhere, floating and whirling around us somehow, but where is it…
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Best Picture vs. most popular – Oscar statistics
William Briggs and John Briggs examine the differences between movies that have won…