Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Grace Hopper explains a nanosecond with a visual aid
A nanosecond is a billionth of a second, but we’re not very good…
Piecing together satellite images
You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
Square pie chart beats out the rest in perception study
Many hate pie charts. Others love them. I think they’re useful but have…
Cross-country road trip at a constant 70 degrees
Road trips are fun, but it can be hard to enjoy yourself when…
History lesson on data visualization
Clive Thompson for Smithsonian Magazine gives a quick history lesson on infographics.
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One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow →
Detailed description of what it’s like for someone with a stat-heavy background.…
Charted history of music, from its origins to present
Musicmap is an attempt to show the history of music over time and…
Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years
Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…
Procedurally generated spaceships
Video game developer Michael Davies provides a Blender script to procedurally generate pretty…
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…
