Network Visualization

Fun with links, nodes, and edges.

Apple vs. Google company structure, as seen through patents

For Co.Design, Periscopic compared patent ownership between Apple and Google, which ends up…

How much the US imports from Mexico

Most goods imported from Mexico are untaxed under the North American Free Trade…

How different languages represent van Gogh

Christian Laesser takes an abstract look at how different languages represent Vincent van…

Star Trek character network

Star Trek fans rejoice. Mollie Pettit from Datascope Analytics visualized the interactions between…

Charted history of music, from its origins to present

Musicmap is an attempt to show the history of music over time and…

Play chess against the machine and see what it’s thinking

The Thinking Machine, by Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, shows you the thought…

Game of Thrones discussions for every episode, visualized

I hear there’s some show called “Game of Thrones” that’s kind of popular…

Air transportation network

Flight pattern maps are fun to look at and reveal the complexity of…

Network visualization shows transitions between states

If you think of network visualization as a collection of nodes and edges,…

Interconnectedness of the galaxies

A group of researchers are studying how all the galaxies in the universe…

Tarot cards for complex network concepts

Peter Dodds teaches a course on complex networks, and he put together a…

Social network of Earth’s plants and animals

Plants and animals interact with each other to stay alive, which in turn…

Who marries who, by profession

People with certain professions tend to marry others with a given profession. Adam…

Shakespeare tragedies as network graphs

Martin Grandjean looked at the structure of Shakespeare tragedies through character interactions. Each…

Timelines show Star Wars character interactions

Remember when xkcd charted character interactions for fictional stories? Inspired by that and…

Interactive lets you fly through a software galaxy

This is a fun one. Software Galaxies by Andrei Kashcha visualizes popular software…

Disney business strategy chart, 1957

This is Walt Disney’s corporate strategy from 1957. The theatrical films serve as…

NCAA tournament bracket predictions

March Madness starts this week in the states, which means it’s time for…