Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
History through the president’s words →
The Washington Post visualized the use of specific words throughout the years during…
What a computer sees while watching movies
Benjamin Grosser visualized how computers “watch” movies through vision algorithms and artificial intelligence…
Public transit times in major cities
Last year, WNYC made an interactive map that shows transit times in New…
A century of passenger air travel →
Kiln and the Guardian explored the 100-year history of passenger air travel, and…
Music timeline of plays and history
Two Google research groups, Big Picture and Music Intelligence, got together and made…
Lexical distance between European languages
Using data from linguistics research by Kostiantyn Tyshchenko, Teresa Elms clustered European languages…
Map projections illustrated with a face
Most people, at least those who visit sites like FlowingData, know about map…
A visual exploration of refugee migrations
Hyperakt and Ekene Ijeoma visualized migrations over time and space in The Refugee…
Cherry picking years for random sports statements
When you watch sports, it can sometimes feel like the stat guy pulls…
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…
