Visualization

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

Military footprint

Similar to his collection of prison map snapshots, Josh Begley collected images of…

Earth wind map

Remember the wind map of the United States by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda…

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…

Uncertain cartographies

Most people know the layout of their neighborhoods and some are good with…

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…

Climate change described visually

A video from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme explains global warming and projected changes…

MiseryMap of current flight delays and cancelations

FlightAware is a live flight tracker that lets you look up a flight…

Top reddits of all time

For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…

Your life in jellybeans

Using the effective jellybean method, Ze Frank describes the finite time we have.…

Where the public radio is

Andrew Filer mapped the reach of public radio stations in the United Stations,…

Super ZIP codes

The Washington Post looked at Super ZIP codes, a classification based on household…