Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Facial hair trends over time
In 1976, Dwight E. Robinson, an economist at the University of Washington, studied…
Timeline shows a century of rock history
Jessica Edmondson visualized the history of rock music, from foundations in the pre-1900s…
Body maps show where we feel emotion
Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.…
Evolution of reddit in stacked areas
Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare…
Highway traffic reorganized by color
In the video above, filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker reorganized midday traffic by color. No…
Military footprint
Similar to his collection of prison map snapshots, Josh Begley collected images of…
Network of subreddits
There are over 5,000 subreddits with plenty of overlap and similarities. Randy Olson…
Data and visualization year in review, 2013
Visualization continues to mature and focus more on the data it represents than on novel designs and size. Let's have a look back.
Airport billboard encourages wonderment
Airports conjure thoughts of security, bag checks, and cramped spaces, and flights are…
State gun laws since Newtown →
The New York Times explored state gun bills since Newtown.
In the 12…
Rocky movie breakdown
Fathom Information Design watched all six Rocky movies, classified segments into dialogue, training,…
Growth in civic tech
Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with the Knight Foundation and Quid, visualized the…
Artist temperaments
Just for kicks, Jimmy Chen plotted artists on a subjective arrogance-vs-genius scale. Above…
Online habitats
Ekisto, by visual artist Alex Dragulescu, is an experiment in visualizing online communities…
What Antarctica looks like underneath the ice
Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection…
