Visualization

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

Open source mapping lab

Mapzen focuses on building open source mapping components for developers.…

Flooding risk cartogram

As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it…

Drones programmed for light painting in the sky

What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones…

No Ceilings highlights progress towards gender equality

No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative from the Clinton Foundation, aims…

Quartet point cloud

This is beautiful to watch. Graham Roberts, Daniel J. Wakin, and others from…

Hand-drawn, detailed city maps

Maps can be about a lot of things, from strictly geography and location…

How search works

Google explained the process of a web search with a scrolling infographic. Might…

Household incomes rise

Since the recession, it’s taken a while for household incomes to come back…

PhD gender gaps around the world

Periscopic, for Scientific American, visualized the number of PhDs awarded in various countries.…

Search for word usage in movies and television over time

Movies and television shows often reflect cultural trends of the time they are…

Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style

You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…

Pantone beer cans

Graphic designer Txaber created beer can labeling to match the typical color of…

Probabilities of failing birth control methods

In high school health class, where I learned about contraceptives and the dangers…

Extinctions and animal species at risk

Data journalist Anna Flagg for ProPublica reported on animal species at higher risk…

Generative book covers

The New York Public Library is developing an eBook-borrowing system, which includes an…

Beat Blox

Beat Blox is a student project by Per Holmquist from Beckmans College of…

Dinosaurs versus airplane

Scientists found the fossils of a giant dinosaur that they estimate was 26…

Old maps overlaid on Google Maps

The British Library georeferencing project places old maps, as far back as the…