Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
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…
24 hours of Flickr photos printed to fill a room
People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and…
Time-lapse of Earth from International Space Station
Beautiful time-lapse video using photographs from crew onboard the International Space Station. I…
What your favorite map projection says about you
For the map nerds. xkcd says what your favorite map projection says about…
Politilines shows what candidates talk about during debates
If you don’t watch the candidate debates — and let’s face it, that’s…
