Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Our changing world in cartograms
In this series of interactive cartograms, FedEx shows our changing world (and I…
Physics of dynamic braking in slow motion
When you slow down your car, energy dissipates into the air as heat.…
Map of North American English dialects and subdialects
Rick Aschmann has made a hobby out of studying and mapping North American…
7 billion people in motion graphics
National Geographic argues a need for balance across the world population in the…
Delicious mass exodus
On news that Delicious is on Yahoo’s sunset list, thousands of people decided…
The Dow Piano audiolizes the stock market in 2010
CNNMoney audiolizes the stock market in 2010 with the Dow Piano. Each day’s…
The real Inception flowchart by Nolan
Inception was a complex film, so there was understandably some confusion over the…
Old map shows slavery in the United States
In 1864, drawing on the most recent 1860 Census data, the United States…
Dynamic sculpture brings weather into airport
eCLOUD, conceived by Aaron Koblin, Nik Hafermaas, and Dan Goods, displays weather data…
Facebook status updates: young people are self-centered and old ramble
The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…
Minimalised consumer products
Antrepo wonders what it might be like if the labels on consumer products…
Comparison of the largest stars
You’ve most likely seen a couple of views of the universe to provide…
Choreography of the skies shows flight paths
We’ve all seen Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns, so we know that there’s a…
Mapping demographics of every block and city in America
Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with…
Filling in the black holes of the Facebook friendship map
While it was fun looking at the worldwide connections on Facebook, I thought…
Growth in visual culture via science magazine pages
William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…
