Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Global cloud coverage
In the latest Chrome experiment, Google mapped cloud coverage around the world in…
Bike patterns
Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, visualized five million bike rides using…
Data sculpture shows emotional response to Olympics
During the Olympics, Studio NAND, Moritz Stefaner, and Drew Hemment tracked Twitter sentiment…
