Visualization

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

Chartspotting: Coffee graph menu

FlowingData reader Amir sent this along. In lieu of a list of coffee…

Gun deaths since Sandy Hook

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…

Metrico, an infographic puzzle game

Metrico is a puzzle action game for PlayStation Vita that centers around charts…

March Madness fan map

Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…

Spatial Memory: Mapping Blank Spots in the Cheeseboard Maze

Mapping Blank Spots in the Cheeseboard Maze. “IST Austria Professor Jozsef Csicsvari together…

Every known drone attack in Pakistan

It’s hard to know the impact of drone attacks as outsiders looking in,…

Deleted Slides

Science graphics editor Jonathan Corum of The New York Times is great at…

A visualization of pi for high school math students

On Kickstarter: A project that uses a visualization of pi to connect Brooklyn…

Internet Census

Upon discovering hundreds of thousands open embedded devices on the Internet, an anonymous…

Interactive: Common chord progressions in 1,300 songs

If you listen to the radio long enough, you’ve probably noticed that many…

A new brand of cartographer

Emily Underwood on new cartographers and the growing field: Geographers have traditionally studied…

How to be Interesting by Jessica Hagy

Jessica Hagy, the one who made Venn diagrams on index cards popular, has…

An exploration of how Oscar winners express gratitude

Each year, Oscar speeches seem to follow a similar format, with familiar names…

Geo Point Plotter

Geo Point Plotter by Derek Watkins is a quick and dirty mapper. Copy…

App shows what the Internet looks like

In a collaboration between PEER 1 Hosting, Steamclock Software, and Jeff Johnston, the…

A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator

A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map…

Choosing the right seat

It can be tricky picking the right seat at a dinner party. So…

Word tree for any URL or Twitter username

In 2007, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas created the word tree, a search…