Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Rappers’ claimed wealth versus actual wealth
Allison McCann for Businessweek graphed rappers’ claimed wealth in their songs versus their…
Movie sounds
Moviesound is a goofy yet charming look at sounds in movies. Imagine sound…
Make your own US rivers and roads maps
Inspired by Nelson Minar’s map of US rivers, Mike Bostock demonstrates how to…
Visualizing uncertainty still unsolved problem
Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
Data from an experiment may appear rock solid.…
Global migration and debt
Global Economic Dynamics, by the Bertelsmann Foundation in collaboration with 9elements, Raureif, and…
An eerie view of the linked city
Watch_Dogs is a video game that imagines Chicago as a city where everyone…
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,…
