Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Map shows how to say “beer” in Europe
Feòrag NicBhrìde provides a handy map on how to say beer in European…
A people-centric view of your Gmail inbox
Immersion by the MIT Media Lab is a view into your inbox that…
Instagram cities
The collaborative project Phototrails is a visual exploration of millions of Instagram photos,…
Yelp maps words used in reviews
We typically think of Yelp reviews as aggregates on a restaurant or business-specific…
Mapping all the rivers in the United States
Inspired by Ben Fry’s All Streets map, which showed every road in the…
Earth’s skies with Saturn’s rings →
Illustrator Ron Miller imagined what Earth’s skies would look like if we had…
Contrailz: Detailed flight patterns at major airports
Alexey Papulovskiy collected flight data from Plane Finder for a month, which essentially…
Income inequality, real and personal
In a different take on the income inequality issue, the Economic Policy Institute,…
The Insanely Illustrated Guide to Your First Data-Driven TileMill Map
TileMill makes it easy to make custom maps. Here’s a detailed, illustrated tutorial…
Mapping Twitter demographics
MapBox, along with Gnip and Eric Fischer, mapped 3 billion tweets and a…
A high resolution tour of the vegetation on Earth
NOAA visualized global vegetation over a year, and the result is beautiful:
We’ve…
Animation shows flow of attendees during a conference
When you go to a conference, there are typically several talks going on…
Sniffing out Paul Revere with basic social network analysis
It’s just metadata. What can you do with that? Kieran Healy, a sociology…
Price of Damien Hirst spot paintings →
Damien Hirst is an artist known for a number of works, one of…
Easy mapping with Map Stack
It seems like the technical side of map-making, the part that requires code…
State of the OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map that offers up high quality geographic data,…
