Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Great Lakes currents map
Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…
Life expectancy and child poverty as a tube map
Geographers James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien visualized life expectancy in London as a…
Eyeo Festival talks online
The Eyeo Festival, hosted over at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, seems…
Stop-and-frisk hotspots mapped →
WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…
Charts describe love and relationships →
Love is complicated. It twists, it turns, and sometimes it smacks you in…
Browse the web of Wikipedia with Wikiweb iPad app
While we’re on the subject of the web that is Wikipedia, four-man, Baltimore-based…
Graphing every idea in history →
Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on Wikipedia…
Olympian age distributions compared →
Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…
The future of maps isn’t maps →
Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic on why maps aren’t the best interface all…
Map of the underwater Internet →
Nicolas Rapp, for Fortune Magazine, mapped the underwater cables that make the global…
Where you measure up against Olympians →
I think the theme of this year’s Olympic graphics is how you relate…
Sonification of Stanley Cup goals →
Artist Bard Edlund sonified the goals during the 2012 Stanley Cup.
The goals…
Evolution of the Formula One car, animated
Animator and illustrator Rufus Blacklock animated 60 years of Formula One race car…
A year of global cloud coverage →
Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011…
Beer versus church mapped →
The geographers at Floatingsheep are at it again, this time comparing tweets that…
Age range of US Olympic athletes, by sport
The Washington Post has a fun piece that compares your age to that…
The Higgs Boson explained by PhD Comics
Don’t know what the Higgs Boson is (or even how to pronounce it)?…
A graphical summary of Euro 2012 on Twitter
Nicolas Belmonte, a data visualization scientist at Twitter, visualized the change in tweet…
