Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Horrors coming to each state this Halloween
So many movies, so many creepy crawlies that go bump in the night.…
Google+ Ripples show influence and how posts are shared
Posts and links get shared over and over again, but we usually don’t…
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,…
