Data Art

Remember when you played Telephone as a kid? No matter how simple the…

Typographic maps are all the rage these days. Instead of drawing well-defined boundary…

Artist Ward Shelley maps the history of science fiction in painstaking detail. See…

Choice of color in a movie can say a lot about what’s going…

Arthur Buxton breaks down van Gogh paintings for a view of color schemes.…

LEGOs were my favorite toy growing up. This was back when the pieces…

WiFi is everywhere, floating and whirling around us somehow, but where is it…

The list of one-off applications that visualize your digital life, whether it be…

We’ve seen this sort of thing before, but it doesn’t ever seem to…

Tonight on Jeopardy, the first day of the IBM Watson challenge, Ken Jennings…

Jer Thorp, who has a knack for creating stuff that’s both useful and…

Fact is not always clear cut. Sometimes fact is driven by opinion. People…

eCLOUD, conceived by Aaron Koblin, Nik Hafermaas, and Dan Goods, displays weather data…

Antrepo wonders what it might be like if the labels on consumer products…

William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…

Fabian Gonzalez goes minimalistic on superheroes. I like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.…

Gareth Holt designed several charts and graphs for Rank: picturing the social order…

Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…