Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Voting similarities between Netherland cities
This month the Netherlands held national elections, and now that the results are…
Make cool images with emergent algorithm
I’m not sure what I’d do with Ablaze.js, a JavaScript library by Patrick…
Animated political contributions
The Forest of Advocacy is a series of animations that explores the political…
Comparing Map Projections →
Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose…
Soundscapes of city pollution
Aaron Rueben and Gabriel Isaacman used data from sampling air in tunnels, where…
Presidential campaign stops mapped →
Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…
Review: The Functional Art
Alberto Cairo’s newly translated book on information graphics, The Functional Art, is a…
How people are connected on Facebook, by country
As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…
Wikipedia is dominated by male editors
After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…
Words used at the National Conventions
The elections season is in full swing, and the New York Times graphics…
RGB Colorspace Atlas shows every shade in a cubic book
The 8-inch cube RGB Colorspace Atlas by artist Tauba Auerbach shows every color…
Mapping urban footprint
After identifying 129 metropolitan regions that represent 35 percent of the world’s urban…
How NASA visualizes large datasets
Horace Mitchell, director of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio discusses the process behind…
Physics as a geographic map
The fictional map of physics by Bernard H. Porter in 1939 reads:
Containing…
Making of Perpetual Ocean →
Making of Perpetual Ocean. NASA interview on how they made this; surprisingly, they…
Long-exposure fireworks photos
Photographer David Johnson took long-exposure shots of fireworks. Fireworks already leave trails when…
