Visualization

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

Live flight tracking site shows crash of circling plane

Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…

Tracking drought in the US

NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…

Explore the Solar System like your backyard

Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…

Graphs, from paper to pixels

Brian Hayes for American Scientist discusses science publications’ roots in print and the…

Interactive Islands of Mankind

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…

A century of ocean shipping animated

Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…

How recruiters look at your resume

In a study by TheLadders (of n equals 30), recruiters looked at resumes…

Under the Sea, Under the Sea

In usual xkcd fashion, Randall Munroe plots the depths of lakes and oceans,…

Metal bands per capita

By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…

Conducting Demystified

The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab,…

Explore Geographic Coverage in Mapping Wikipedia

TraceMedia, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, maps language use across Wikipedia…

GM Uses LEGOs for Visual Management Tool

I thought this was a joke, but it appears GM really is using…

8-bit Google Maps, Start Your Quest

If you go to Google Maps right now, there’s an option in the…

How Much More Women Pay for Health Insurance

So the Obama campaign posted this yesterday. Discuss.…

Rising Water Levels in the Immediate Future

Stamen Design, in collaboration with Climate Central, shows major areas that could be…

Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns

I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg…

Where Campaign Spending is Going to

Making use of data from the Federal Election Commission and The New York…

Perpetual Ocean

Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…