Visualization

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

ITP Spring Show: Iraq war and diabetes visualizations

Yesterday I visited the ever popular NYU ITP bi-annual show which is a…

Global shipping network

Nicolas Rapp dives into the patterns and growth of worldwide shipping in a…

Stop motion music video

Music visualization with stop motion board games. You can’t go wrong. [via @jcukier]…

Gay rights in the United States, by state

Gay rights vary across states and by region. The Guardian US interactive team…

Neighborhood boundaries based on social media activity

Researchers at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University investigate the…

An era of human-affected Earth

Welcome to Anthropocene: Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship…

Minecraft server connections

I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means…

Titanic infographics from 1912

With the Titanic anniversary this year, Chiqui Esteban dug up graphics back from…

Avengers characters first appearances

With The Avengers coming out today in the US, artist Jer Thorp had…

Parallel Sets for categorical data, D3 port

A while back, Robert Kosara and Caroline Ziemkiewicz shared their work on Parallel…

Extreme ice time-lapse

Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…

Agreement groups in the US Senate

PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of…

Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated

The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…

Data and visualization blogs worth following

About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about,…

Eating healthiness mapped over 24 hours

The Eatery app by Massive Health lets people snap pictures of their food…

World Happiness Report makes statisticians unhappy

It feels oh so wrong posting about bad charts in a report about…

Learning data visualization

I listen to a lot of podcasts. They make my workouts much more…

Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent

The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file…