Visualization

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

Redefining NBA Basketball Positions

For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical…

Innovation History via 6,000 Pages of Annual Reports

Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with GE, visualizes GE annual reports from 1892…

Towards a Low-carbon World

Carbon output. We want to reduce it, but some countries have a longer…

Evolution of the Hawaiian Star, 1893 to 1912

UC San Diego student Cyrus Kiani animates 5,930 front pages from The Hawaiian…

Visualizing the History of Everything

Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…

March Madness power rankings

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…

Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot

At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…

Character relationships in the Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem by Homer with a lot of characters…

Odds of losing in roulette

Jay Jacobs has some fun with roulette simulations and explores the odds of…

Generative art portrays beauty in movement

Heading towards the 2012 Olympics in London, Quayola and Memo Aktenvia translate athletic…

Geography of the basketball court

Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…

Who voted for Santorum and Romney

As a complement to Shan Carter’s exit poll dancing boxes, The New York…

Geographic news coverage visualized

Kitchen Budapest explores local news coverage in Hungary with sound and a bubbling…

Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic

Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…

Geography of government benefits

I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, accidental chart

This came via Twitter from @christopferd: Will @flowingdata caption my 2 yr old’s…

Data in a human context

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…

Growing urban populations

In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…