Visualization

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

Regional personality

Peter J. Rentfrow, et al. studied personality clusters across states using data from…

Super duper full-featured paper map

Check out this awesome new thing called MAP. It’s made of 100% sustainable…

Average man graphic renderings

James Hamblin for The Atlantic rendered the average American man based on BMI…

Maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea, animated

Digital artist Lauri Vanhala animated a day of maritime traffic in the Baltic…

Map of median home listing prices

In their continued efforts to help potential home buyers find out all they…

Furloughed employees during shutdown

Dan Delany took a simple look at furloughed employees due to the government…

Real-time media consumption

Last year, URL shortening service bitly and Forbes made a map that showed…

10 seconds of extreme trading

The video below shows ten seconds of trading on Blackberry on October 2,…

Most visited site by country

Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata for Information Geographies mapped the most visited…

Greco-Roman mapmaking

Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity opens at Institute for…

Quarterback streaks

Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times explore…

Cities pulse via Foursquare check-ins

Foursquare check-ins can be self-encapsulated and personal to the individual, where each dot…

Science fiction starships, an extensive size comparison

A while back we saw a size comparison of random spaceships. That one…

Great Britain recreated in Minecraft

The Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, mapped 220,000 square…

Searching for other Earths

In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…

Impressive exploration of projection mapping

Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…

Planet and moon resizer

It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…

Acetaminophen availability around the world

Probublica has a detailed piece on the potential overuse of acetaminophen, commonly known…