A good portion of my time in high school was spent trying to…
Nathan Yau
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Spirit of graph and dance is alive
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Cleaning house.
I’m transitioning to a new server right now, and let me tell you.…
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Man as Industrial Palace, Animated
In 1926, Fritz Kahn illustrated man as a working factory in his famous…
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Sunlight Labs releases mapping framework, ClearMaps
Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…
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Data Underload #10 – Daily Crossword
Working towards the ultimate Sunday crossword.
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Thank you, FlowingData sponsors
A big thank you to FlowingData sponsors. They help keep the blog running…
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OpenStreetMap Edits Towards Haiti Relief
ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…
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How a Giant Shark Took Down an Airplane
This graphic from designer Stephen Taubman is entertaining in so many ways. It…
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NSF Announces 2009 Visualization Contest Winners
The National Science Foundation announced the 2009 winners of their annual visualization challenge.…
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Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong provides the dos and don’ts of data presentation.
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Open thread: What visualization tutorials do you want to see?
After the county map tutorial a few months ago, I decided to write…
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Road to Recovery – Is the Recovery Act working?
The Obama administration just posted a graph showing monthly job loss from December…
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Build Online Visualization for Free with Tableau Public
Tableau Software, popular for making data more accessible, mainly in the business sector,…
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Data Underload #9 – Big Graphic Blueprint
Go big or go home.
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Watching the Pulse of the Olympics on Twitter
The Olympics are in full swing, so of course Twitter is abuzz with…
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Weekend Fodder: Valentine’s Geekery
Tales around the Web for everyone’s favorite holiday.
Obligatory Valentine’s Day map –… -
Math Functions in the Real World
RIT student Nikki Graziano photographs math functions in the real world. Some are…
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An Easy Way to Make a Treemap
If your data is a hierarchy, a treemap is a good way to show all the values at once and keep the structure in the visual. This is a quick way to make a treemap in R.
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Get a Date With Your Online Profile Pic – Myths Debunked
The online dating world can be a confusing place. How do you interact…
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Track Mouse Activity On Your Computer
Anatoly Zenkov provides this nifty tool (Mac and PC) to track your mouse…