Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with…
Nathan Yau
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Mapping demographics of every block and city in America
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Filling in the black holes of the Facebook friendship map
While it was fun looking at the worldwide connections on Facebook, I thought…
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Growth in visual culture via science magazine pages
William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…
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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010
Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects…
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Facebook worldwide friendships mapped
As we all know, people all over the world use Facebook to stay…
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No axis labels
xkcd geekdom for your slow Monday afternoon. Can you imagine being with someone…
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How the world searched in 2010
Google recaps search trends for the year in Google Zeitgeist 2010, from the…
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Superheroes minimalized
Fabian Gonzalez goes minimalistic on superheroes. I like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.…
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College football coaches’ ballots
Brett Coffman and Juan Thomassie for USA Today have a look at how…
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Picturing social order
Gareth Holt designed several charts and graphs for Rank: picturing the social order…
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Data analysis is the future of journalism
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the Web, says analyzing data is the future…
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Axes of peeing in public
You might think this is a joke, but this is serious business. From…
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Similarities between PhD dissertations
Certain fields of study tend to cover many of the same topics. Many…
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The United States of Autocomplete
Very Small Array has some fun with Google’s autocomplete. Utah… Jazz. Kentucky… Fried…
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Relationships on the Bold and the Beautiful explained
I don’t get soap operas. People get married, divorced, evil twins show up,…
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Thank you, FlowingData sponsors
My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. They keep the lights on and…
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Jon Stewart explains Wikileaks’ Cablegate
You’ve probably already heard and read about Wikileaks’ Cablegate. If not, Andy Baio…
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Advanced visualization without programming – Impure
Programming can be tough in the beginning, which can make advanced visualization beyond…
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Amanda Cox on data graphics and stuff
At New Media Days 2010, New York Times graphics editor Amanda Cox talks…
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Finding Global Agenda Councils who should work together
This past month, the World Economic Forum convened in Dubai to discuss issues…