Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Increasing rates of men who don’t work
Recent data from the Census Bureau suggests the rate of non-working men has…
Physical infographics
Photographer Marion Luttenberger used physical objects and people as her visual cues in…
Book genres for visualization
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas from Google Research ran with the book metaphor…
Understanding segregation with a simulation
In 1971, Nobel laureate economist Thomas Schelling proposed that a desire to have…
Detailed visualization of NBA shot selection
Sports loves conditional distributions. What does Joe Billy Bob typically do against such…
Make your own detailed tweet maps
Eric Fischer, known around these parts for his detailed dot maps, describes his…
Motion Exposure →
Motion Exposure, a photography project by Stephen Orlando, captures movement patterns with light.…
Elemental cartograms
Along the same lines as the scaled Periodic Table, Elemental Cartograms by chemistry…
A scaled Periodic Table of Elements
Inspired by a diagram from 1976, the Big Picture group at Google Research…
Detecting your face
Sterling Crispin reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms and produced masks that only kind…
Why you feel bloated after holiday meals →
Because that’s what happens when you eat ten full plates of turkey and…
Friends in Space
Part celebration of Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly into space,…
English versus Chinese color descriptors
Color exists on a continuous spectrum, but we bin them with names and…
Tracking global fishing through satellite data
Global Fishing Watch is an initiative to place some accountability on global fishing,…
