Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Interactive Islands of Mankind
Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
A century of ocean shipping animated
Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…
How recruiters look at your resume
In a study by TheLadders (of n equals 30), recruiters looked at resumes…
Under the Sea, Under the Sea
In usual xkcd fashion, Randall Munroe plots the depths of lakes and oceans,…
Conducting Demystified
The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab,…
Explore Geographic Coverage in Mapping Wikipedia
TraceMedia, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, maps language use across Wikipedia…
GM Uses LEGOs for Visual Management Tool
I thought this was a joke, but it appears GM really is using…
Rising Water Levels in the Immediate Future
Stamen Design, in collaboration with Climate Central, shows major areas that could be…
Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns
I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg…
Where Campaign Spending is Going to
Making use of data from the Federal Election Commission and The New York…
Perpetual Ocean
Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…
What News Sites People are Reading, by State
Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of…
Inception Explained in Animated Infographic
Designer Matt Dempsey explains the storyline of Inception in this fun experiment. There…
