Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Sales receipt redesign
Design firm Berg rethinks the everyday sales receipt under the premise that registers…
The History of Cartography →
Complete Volume 1 from 1987, available for free…
Takin’ data to the streets. Word.
Whenever I’m out late at night with my bottle of black spray paint…
Anatomy of a computer virus explained
Motion designer Patrick Clair tells the story of Stuxnet, “a Microsoft Windows computer…
Elements of Happiness: A happy life depicted in diagrams
For several decades, Harvard Laboratory of Adult Development has chronicled the lives of…
Average color of NYC skies, every five minutes
The color of the sky changes through the day and into the night…
Imagining the future of information graphics
While information graphics have been around for decades, their current form is brand…
Words used in commencement speeches
If you’ve visited YouTube in the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably noticed…
Award-nominated movies vs. highest grossing
Dorothy Gambrell of very small array continues with her fascination of movie quality…
Households like yours
Accompanying an article on the changing family dynamic, The New York Times provides…
In pursuit of the American dream (house)
Trulia Insights sure has been having fun lately. In their most recent dig…
Long-exposure air traffic
Terrance Chang shows us flight patterns at San Francisco International Airport using long-exposure…
Computer assisted design and the 9/11 Memorial
Digital artist Jer Thorp discusses the algorithm and tool used to arrange 9/11…
RottenTomatoes trends with Career-o-matic
Slate puts together a rough analysis of RottenTomatoes actor and director career ratings.…
Yacht design inspired by Voronoi diagram
Industrial architect Hyun-Seok Kim, known for eccentric yacht designs, uses Voronoi diagrams as…
Keyboard with keys raised by frequency of use
Mike Knuepfel, a student in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, uses key frequency, according…
All roads lead to philosophy, on Wikipedia
Jeffrey Winter tests a hunch about links leading to philosophy on Wikipedia:
There…
