Visualization

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

SimCity 2013 is coming tomorrow

I’m not into video games, and my experience has been near zero since…

Stately: A simple map font

Add another way to make state-level choropleth maps. Stately, a project by Intridea,…

CS547

The Stanford seminar lectures on human-computer interaction are all free to view online.…

Finding and Making Sense of Geospatial Data on the Internet

Steven Citron-Pousty provides a thorough primer on finding and making sense of geospatial…

Languages of New York, via Twitter

In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…

Pope face composite

With Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, 116 cardinals from various regions have to come…

Curved Paths

Possible path drawing in video games [via]…

Map of Craigslist Missed Connections

On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

A dissection of movie trailers

Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, and Mike Bostock for The New York Times, analyzed…

U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

A shroud of cold air descends on the U.S.

From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…

Chart Check: Did Obama’s Graphics ‘Enhance’ His Big Speech?

Helped out some for this NPR article…

Redrawn United States of electoral votes

Neil Freeman reimagined state boundary lines based on population. He started with an…

Visualization spectrum

A handful of experts weighed in on visualization as a spectrum rather than…

State of the Union address decreasing reading level

With the State of the Union address tonight, The Guardian plotted the Flesh-Kincaid…

The many relationships of Zeus

Viviana Ferro, Ilaria Pagin, and Elisa Zamarian had a look at all of…

Artists use data to make political statements

Bringing the human to data…

Mapping translations of Othello

Tom Cheesman of Swansea University, along with Kevin Flanagan and Studio NAND, dives…