Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
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…
Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds
Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…
Global forest change
Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. produced high-resolution maps of global forestry to…
