Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Hurricane tracker for Sandy
The New York Times has an updated version of their hurricane tracker up…
Urine wheel to diagnose disease
Some days you take a whiff it’s easy: “Yep. Definitely had asparagus last…
Insisting on beautiful maps
In the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society,…
Tracking homicides in Washington, D.C. →
In a multipart special report, The Washington Post investigated homicides in the nation’s…
ReConstitution recreates debates through transcripts and language processing
ReConstitution 2012, a fun experiment by Sosolimited, processes transcripts from the presidential debates,…
Shifting states over the decades, between Democrat and Republican →
Mike Bostock and Shan Carter visualized how states have shifted parties over the…
Solar energy potential, mapped in Cambridge →
Sustainable Design Lab at MIT and MoDe Studio estimated the potential hotspots for…
How viral photos spread on Facebook
Number of likes and shares for a Facebook post are just simple aggregates…
State of polar bear populations →
There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world, and…
Every Lost episode visualized and recreated
Santiago Ortiz visualized every episode of the show in the interactive Lostalgic. It’s…
Game: Match states on a blank map →
In case you’re interested in learning how much you suck at US state…
Visualization for scientific discovery
Jeffrey Heer on visualization for interactive exploration:
We were visualizing the results of…
Quick sites tell you if Obama or Romney are president →
In the same spirit of the quick update site on Olympic records a…
Presidential campaign finance explorer
Hey, I think it’s election season, and you know what that means. It’s…
