Visualization

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

Backbone of the flavor network

Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a lot. Some cuisines use a…

The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011

I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked…

Mapped: Transportation check-ins on foursquare

Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again…

Corruption versus human development

Transparency International released annual data for the Corruption Perceptions Index. The Economist plotted…

Bach Cello Suites visualized

As a resident at Eyebeam, Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s…

Rise and fall of riot rumors on Twitter

During the riots in London this past summer, a lot of information spread…

Every death on the road in Great Britain

As part of their series on road accidents, BBC News mapped every recorded…

40 years of boxplots

Famed statistician John Tukey created the boxplot in 1970. It shows a distribution…

What seven billion people looks like

Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity: Dencity…

Smiley installation shows the mood of a city

Project Stimmungsgasometer (say what?) is a giant smiley face that changes based on…

US road fatalities mapped, 9 years

For The Guardian, ITO World maps about 370,000 road-related deaths from 2001 through…

Google Streetview stop motion

Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins tells the story of a lonely desk…

What topics science lovers link to the most

Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bitly, examined links to 600 science pages and…

Who owes what to whom in Europe

As the Eurozone crisis develops, the BBC News has a look at what…

xkcd: Cost of everything

Randall Munroe of xkcd charts the things that money pays for, from the…

History of the sky

Ken Murphy installed a camera on top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco…

Public opinion of the Occupy movement

To get a gauge of public opinion and the Occupy movement, The New…

American migration map

Overhauling his migration map from last year, Jon Bruner uses five year’s worth…