Visualization

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

Women’s dress sizes demystified

Women’s clothing sizes have always confused me. My wife always has to try…

Mac vs. PC people

Recommendation site Hunch is another one of those applications that knows a ton…

New York Times R&D Lab explores how news is shared and read with Project Cascade

For online publications, it’s useful to know how people share links to articles…

History of detainees at Guantánamo

On January 11, 2002 the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo. On January 22,…

Water changes everything in motion graphics

In the most recent media push for Charity: Water, a video of motion…

Art, science, and cartography

Similar discussions going on in the cartography branch among UW Madison geography folks.…

How long it takes for house prices to drop

Shopping for a house? Sometimes it can be advantageous to wait a while,…

Map your location – that your iPhone secretly records

Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…

See what you and others tweet about with the Topic Explorer

When you first come across a Twitter account it can be hard to…

Visualization as a mass medium in the 21st century

In an op-ed for CNN and perhaps adding fuel to the fire, Martin…

Dropping movie ratings from the past six decades

Dorothy Gambrell of very small array charts median Tomatometer ratings of the top…

DisplayCabinet augments keys and wallet with data

DisplayCabinet is a clever use of a projected display and RFID tags to…

Business intelligence vs. infotainment

Business intelligence expert Stephen Few goes on another rant about information graphics —…

Mental disorder graphics

Designer Patrick Smith has a minimalist look at mental disorders: I was doing…

Sugar consumption buckets

Lovely imagery showing sugar consumption for day through lifetime. The average American consumes…

Rings of population change by block

You’ve seen population changes at the state and county level, but with Census…

The city in real-time

The MIT SENSEable City Lab presents five different perspectives of the ebb and…

Beauty of Maps available in its entirety

Almost a year ago, the BBC aired the Beauty of Maps, but we…