Network Visualization

Fun with links, nodes, and edges.

Online habitats

Ekisto, by visual artist Alex Dragulescu, is an experiment in visualizing online communities…

Evolution of western dance music

A quick animated look on the evolution of western dance music, a mixture…

10 seconds of extreme trading

The video below shows ten seconds of trading on Blackberry on October 2,…

British relationships throughout history

In Kindred Britain, Nicholas Jenkins, Elijah Meeks and Scott Murray provide a visual…

Network of shared flavors

Jan Willem Tulp, for this month’s Scientific American food issue, recreated the flavor…

Global migration and debt

Global Economic Dynamics, by the Bertelsmann Foundation in collaboration with 9elements, Raureif, and…

A people-centric view of your Gmail inbox

Immersion by the MIT Media Lab is a view into your inbox that…

Sniffing out Paul Revere with basic social network analysis

It’s just metadata. What can you do with that? Kieran Healy, a sociology…

An exploration of recurring jokes on Arrested Development

Watch Arrested Development enough and you start to realize there are a lot…

Lego minifigure taxonomy

There are over 4,000 Lego minifigure characters ranging from plumbers and judges to…

Interactive: Common chord progressions in 1,300 songs

If you listen to the radio long enough, you’ve probably noticed that many…

Word tree for any URL or Twitter username

In 2007, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda ViĆ©gas created the word tree, a search…

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, a 17th century social network

These days it’s relatively easy to figure out connections between people via email,…

The many relationships of Zeus

Viviana Ferro, Ilaria Pagin, and Elisa Zamarian had a look at all of…

Wine industry network in the US

A group of researchers at Michigan State University, led by Phil Howard, explored…

Animated growth of an organization

A company grows, it shrinks, people come and go. Justin Matejka, a research…

An introduction to diagrams

As a teaser for a larger project on diagrams, Jane Nisselson describes how…

An ideal bookshelf

Thessaly La Force, with illustrator Jane Mount, recently published My Ideal Bookshelf, which…