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…
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…