Visualization

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

Locations of every photo from International Space Station

Over the last 12 years, astronauts have taken a lot of pictures from…

Doing good with data

Periscopic founders Kim Rees and Dino Citraro spoke with Co.Design on what makes…

Personal space per person in various countries

How much space is there per person in different countries? Andrew Bergmann for…

Analysis of baseball ticket pricing

If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…

Map: Travel safety by country

As summer rolls around here on this side of the planet, CBC News…

Distance to Mars

Long distances (and big numbers) can be difficult grasp. Designers Jesse Williams and…

Wall shelf represents water in snowpack

Melting snowpacks feed into streams and rivers and serve as a source of…

How a cab driver makes money

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cab drivers and chauffeurs make a…

The fallacy of new cartography

Cartographer Kenneth Field argues that mapping on the Web isn’t really new. The…

An experimental map service using 3-D data

For the past few months, Stamen Design has been working with 3-D data…

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,…

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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…