Visualization

Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.

Sci-Fi short film scripted by machine learning algorithm

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with…

What happened at Pulse in Orlando

The Tampa Bay Times takes you through a 3-D model of Pulse Nightclub…

We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores

For decades, Americans spent more money at the grocery store than at eating…

Motion capture dance

Really fun. “Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a…

U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…

Voting habits for various demographic groups

Voter turnout and political leanings for various demographic groups play an important role…

A map about the people who live there

Geographers Seth Spielman and Alex Singleton used something called “geodemographic classification” to classify…

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

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

Where people go to and from work

With an animated take on the commute map, Mark Evans shows where people…

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…

National drug overdose epidemic

Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…

Bot automatically generates maps from American Community Survey data

The American Community Survey is an ongoing survey run by the United States…

OpenVis Conf talks all online

If you’re looking for a knowledge bomb during your lunch breaks, the OpenVis…

Network visualization shows transitions between states

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

Gender pay gaps for major U.S. occupations

As we all know these days, there exists a gender pay gap across…

Kung fu particles

Using motion capture methods, Tobias Gremmler collected movement data for two kung fu…

History of Sumo charted

Sumo has a long history that goes back centuries. Unlike most things that…