Visualization

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

Pie step comment bubble 3D thing

This graphic by commenting platform DISQUS, arguing that higher quality online discussions come…

Designing Google Maps

Google Maps is one of Google’s best applications, but the time, energy, and…

Map of Reddit

Reddit user Laurel Quade mapifies the wonderful world of Reddit. Each country represents…

Where people are looking for homes

In August 2006, real estate search site Trulia had 609,000 visitors. Five years…

Apollo 11 lunar landing told through data

From Yanni Loukissas of the MIT Laboratory for Automation, Robotics, and Society, comes…

Dynamic face substitution

Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro play around with a face tracker and color…

Hand-crafted wall map of the United States

Seth Stevenson, for Slate Magazine, covers cartographer David Imus’ hand-crafted wall map, which…

High-resolution maps of science

While we’re on the topic of academic papers and how they’re linked, Johan…

Visualizing citations in research literature

From Autodesk Research, Citeology is an interactive that visualizes connections in academic research…

Backbone of the flavor network

Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a lot. Some cuisines use a…

The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011

I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked…

Mapped: Transportation check-ins on foursquare

Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again…

Corruption versus human development

Transparency International released annual data for the Corruption Perceptions Index. The Economist plotted…

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…