Visualization

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

Network of political contributions

The Wall Street Journal visualized major political contributions, according to the Federal Election…

Ascii Street View

Peter Nitsch created Ascii Street View, converting Google Street View to colored letters.…

Map of connections in the human brain

Using a new kind of MRI scanner, scientists at the National Institutes of…

Map of the Internet

Ruslan Enikeev created a searchable Internet map of links and bubbles, showing over…

Was an Olympic record set today?

From the Guardian US, a simple site that tells you if a record…

Worldwide mood around London 2012

No doubt there is going to be a lot of tweeting about the…

Olympic event nuances explained

A lot of Olympic events are over and done with in a few…

Comparing Romney’s tax returns to presidential returns

Lee Drutman, a Senior Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, compared the tax returns…

Swimsuit technology and breaking world records

The Washington Post has a fine graphic on swimming world records and the…

Tracking the spread of AIDS

Adam Cole and Nelson Hsu for NPR plotted the percentage of people, ages…

Great Lakes currents map

Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…

Life expectancy and child poverty as a tube map

Geographers James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien visualized life expectancy in London as a…

Eyeo Festival talks online

The Eyeo Festival, hosted over at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, seems…

Stop-and-frisk hotspots mapped

WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…

Charts describe love and relationships

Love is complicated. It twists, it turns, and sometimes it smacks you in…

Browse the web of Wikipedia with Wikiweb iPad app

While we’re on the subject of the web that is Wikipedia, four-man, Baltimore-based…

Graphing every idea in history

Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on Wikipedia…

Olympian age distributions compared

Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…