Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Tapestry for reflective data visualization

As a way to reflect on 2020, Catherine Madden wove tapestry to visualize…

Transform an image into a pixel-ly visual

Here’s a fun interactive by Duc-Quang Nguyen. Upload an image and get back…

Bird song sonographs show distinct drawing patterns

These sonographs of bird song, in contrast to the sounds from traditional instruments,…

Generate a color analysis by uploading an image

Mel Dollison and Liza Daly made a fun interactive that lets you upload…

Bird flight patterns captured through long-exposure photography

For several years, Xavi Bou has been using long-exposure photography to capture stills…

Sonification of Covid-19 deaths

This is interesting: What does 425,000 Covid deaths sound like? I was inspired…

Snowflake generator

Vivian Wu made a snowflake generator. Adjust parameters such as growth, kaleidoscoping, and…

Data Sketches, the book

Data Sketches was a one-year visualization collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu…

A game where you get to be a faceworker and mess with an AI system

Kyle McDonald, in collaboration with Greg Borenstein, Evelyn Masso, and Fei Lui, made…

Minimalist creative coding environment

tixy.land is a minimalist coding environment by Martin Kleppe: Control the size and…

Exploration of 12 timelines along Sunset Boulevard

In 1966, artist Ed Ruscha published Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which…

I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.

Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have a new book out called I am…

Elevation data molded in the base of a pint glass

North Drinkware molded Half Dome in the bottom of a hand-blown pint glass…

Disappearing animals as a matrix of dots

Reddit user WhiteCheeks used dot density to show population counts of various animals.…

Stock market mountains

After seeing stoxart, I was reminded of Michael Najjar’s project High Altitude from…

Stock market charts turned into illustrated landscapes

stoxart is a project by Gladys where she turns stock market charts to…

Using a slime mold simulation for generative art

Slime mold are single-celled organisms that can work together to form multicellular structures.…

A million dollars vs. a billion visualized with a road trip

A million dollars. A billion dollars. The latter is 1,000 times more than…