Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
A visual exploration of US gun murders
Information visualization firm Periscopic just published a thoughtful interactive piece on gun murders…
