Visualization

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

Geography of government benefits

I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, accidental chart

This came via Twitter from @christopferd: Will @flowingdata caption my 2 yr old’s…

Data in a human context

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…

Growing urban populations

In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…

Taxonomy for interactive visual analysis

Interactive visualization continues to grow more useful and prominent in every day analysis.…

Spotlight on movie profitability

Movies are a curious business. There a variety of forces that encourage people…

Mobile phone digital traces

In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…

Difference between weather and climate explained

The difference: In this animated short, the relationship between trend and variation are…

Wind motion patterns animated

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…

Really old maps online

Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know…

Maps with R

Three-part tutorial on making non-ugly choropleth maps in R. This is part one.…

Giant globe display

Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…

Map your Twitter friends

You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…

Patterns of daily life in Netherlands from Above

In a similar fashion to their work in Britain from Above, CGI and…

Password reuse visualizer from Mozilla

When you use the same password for every online account, there could be…

Point guard fundamentals of Jeremy Lin

You knew this was coming, right? The New York Times describes the point…

Urine color chart

A Boy Scout is always prepared. See also: Bristol stool chart.…

Slicing Obama’s 2013 budget proposal four ways

With Obama’s recent budget for next year proposed, Shan Carter et. al of…