Visualization

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

Super detailed map of the skies

The title just about says it all: The Photopic Sky Survey is a…

MacGyver recipe book – All 7 seasons of diversions and mischief

Oh. My. God. Fathom Information Design compiles every recipe from the show MacGyver:…

U.S. home prices as opera

Planet Money, a radio show on NPR covering the global economy, loves data,…

Anatomy of a mashup

Mashups, the art of mixing multiple songs into one continuous song, is a…

Art reproduction incongruencies

When you think art reproduction, you probably think of something that looks almost…

A century of deaths and a lot of fake blood

Rather than bars, bubbles, and dots, Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, and Marion Kotlarski…

Flash vs. HTML5

Design firm Periscopic takes a look at the Flash versus HTML5 debate and…

Global search volume by language

To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API…

Stats of the Union tells health stories in America

Stats of the Union, the new Fathom-produced iPad app, maps the status of…

Where the water resources are and where they go

Designer David Wicks compares rainfall against water consumption in his thesis project Drawing…

One man’s travel patterns – Atlas of the Habitual

FInding himself in a new town, with a new job, Tim Clark started…

Reactions to the death of a terrorist

On the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, there was a mixed reaction…

Oil spill amounts in perspective

On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, designer Chris Harmon…

Perceived vs. actual country rankings

Lisa Strausfeld, in collaboration with GE, compares perceived country rankings and actual ones.…

Tweets per second during Bin Laden announcement

As I listened to my young neighbors run around the parking lot chanting,…

Women’s dress sizes demystified

Women’s clothing sizes have always confused me. My wife always has to try…

Mac vs. PC people

Recommendation site Hunch is another one of those applications that knows a ton…

New York Times R&D Lab explores how news is shared and read with Project Cascade

For online publications, it’s useful to know how people share links to articles…