Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Language communities of Twitter
Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each…
NASA maps a decade of fires, a global tour
Using satellite data that goes back to 2002, NASA maps tens of millions…
Racial divide mapped with spacial rifts
Jim Vallandingham maps racial divide in major cities using Mike Bostock’s implementation of…
Facebook connections displayed in physical space
For Facebook’s F8 developer conference, creative agency Obscura Digital delivered the Connections installation.…
Geographic data doesn’t always have to be mapped
Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director at The New York Times, talks maps and…
Visualizing Yahoo email in real-time
Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn’t…
Where people don’t use Facebook
Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships…
Space launches over time
With the end of NASA’s human spaceflight program, Tommy McCall and Mike Orcutt…
Nobel laureates by country and prize
Nobel Prizes have been awarded every year since 1901. Where are all the…
Picturing the creative process
The creative process changes by person and project, but there are obstacles and…
Twitter users as organisms, Tweetures
Twitter is a bustling place of tweets, retweets, and replies, and the growth…
Kill Math makes math more meaningful
After a certain point in math education, like some time during high school,…
All numbers lead to one
In 1937, mathematician Lothar Collatz proposed that given the following algorithm, you will…
Submarine cable system connecting the world
TeleGeography maps underwater cables that connect countries and continents:
TeleGeography’s free interactive submarine…
Live data wall and immersive film at THINK exhibit
The THINK exhibit from IBM just opened up at Lincoln Center in New…
The Fortune 500, 1955 to 2010
Since 1955, Fortune Magazine has published a list of America’s 500 largest companies.…
