Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
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…
Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent
The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file…
Live flight tracking site shows crash of circling plane
Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…
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…
