Visualization

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

Reconstructing Google Streetview as a point cloud

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, an MFA Design & Technology student, scraped depth from Google…

Human heartbeat

Jen Lowe tracks her heart rate with a Basis watch, and she’s showing…

Level of road grid

Seth Kadish looked at the road network of several major counties and estimated…

Graph TV shows ratings by episode

Kevin Wu made a straightforward interactive that lets you see IMDB television ratings…

Failed Bitcoin market activity

Stamen visualized Bitcoin activity, noting a variety of traders who knew what they…

NBA passing dynamics

With player tracking installed in all of the NBA arenas, the sports analytics…

An exploration of cultural production

Pantheon, a project from the Macro Connections group at The MIT Media Lab,…

Beer me, Minnesota

The Star Tribune has a fun interactive that recommends Minnesota brews, based on…

Before and after lot vacancy

Justin Blinder used New York’s city planning dataset and Google Streetview for a…

Find new beers to drink

Based on reviews from BeerAdvocate, Beer Viz, a visualization class project, asks you…

Basketball movements visualized

The NBA has been kind of gaga over data the past few years,…

Solar time versus standard time around the world

After noting the later dinner time in Spain, Stefano Maggiolo noted relatively late…

Why you should buy the bigger pizza

Because you get more pizza to eat, and if you don’t finish it,…

An exploration of selfies

Selfiecity, from Lev Manovich, Moritz Stefaner, and a small group of analysts and…

Near-real-time global forest watch

Global Forest Watch uses satellite imagery and other technologies to estimate forest usage,…

A human-readable explorer for SEC filings

Maris Jensen just made SEC filings readable by humans. The motivation: But in…

Using slime mold to find the best motorway routes

This is all sorts of neat. Researchers Andrew Adamatzky and Ramon Alonso-Sanz are…

Why we think of north pointing up

Nick Danforth for Al Jazeera delves into the history books for why north…