Visualization

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

Choreography of the skies shows flight paths

We’ve all seen Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns, so we know that there’s a…

MacGyver guide on how to use a map

You might think that the only use for a map is to find…

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…

10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010

Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects…

Facebook worldwide friendships mapped

As we all know, people all over the world use Facebook to stay…

How the world searched in 2010

Google recaps search trends for the year in Google Zeitgeist 2010, from the…

Superheroes minimalized

Fabian Gonzalez goes minimalistic on superheroes. I like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.…

College football coaches’ ballots

Brett Coffman and Juan Thomassie for USA Today have a look at how…

Picturing social order

Gareth Holt designed several charts and graphs for Rank: picturing the social order…

Axes of peeing in public

You might think this is a joke, but this is serious business. From…

Similarities between PhD dissertations

Certain fields of study tend to cover many of the same topics. Many…

The United States of Autocomplete

Very Small Array has some fun with Google’s autocomplete. Utah… Jazz. Kentucky… Fried…

Relationships on the Bold and the Beautiful explained

I don’t get soap operas. People get married, divorced, evil twins show up,…

Amanda Cox on data graphics and stuff

At New Media Days 2010, New York Times graphics editor Amanda Cox talks…

Awards from Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Between February 17, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 88,791 awards have been funded…

The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling

The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…