Visualization

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

US road fatalities mapped, 9 years

For The Guardian, ITO World maps about 370,000 road-related deaths from 2001 through…

Google Streetview stop motion

Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins tells the story of a lonely desk…

What topics science lovers link to the most

Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bitly, examined links to 600 science pages and…

Who owes what to whom in Europe

As the Eurozone crisis develops, the BBC News has a look at what…

xkcd: Cost of everything

Randall Munroe of xkcd charts the things that money pays for, from the…

History of the sky

Ken Murphy installed a camera on top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco…

Public opinion of the Occupy movement

To get a gauge of public opinion and the Occupy movement, The New…

American migration map

Overhauling his migration map from last year, Jon Bruner uses five year’s worth…

24 hours of Flickr photos printed to fill a room

People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and…

Time-lapse of Earth from International Space Station

Beautiful time-lapse video using photographs from crew onboard the International Space Station. I…

What your favorite map projection says about you

For the map nerds. xkcd says what your favorite map projection says about…

Politilines shows what candidates talk about during debates

If you don’t watch the candidate debates — and let’s face it, that’s…

Visual Résumés

A couple of infographic résumé sites, vizualize.me and re.vu, sprouted up that use…

Manual data design from Stefanie Posavec

Designer Stefanie Posavec talks about her process of data collection, analysis, and design.…

A month of swearing in 90 seconds

A fun map by Jamie Popkin of Little Earth that animates the use…

Microsoft envisions the near future in technology and interaction

In a follow-up to last year’s visions of the future, Microsoft imagines interacting…

How we got to a population of 7 billion

NPR explains how we reached a population of 7 billion. Simply put, the…

7 billion people in the world: past, present and future

According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over…