Visualization

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

Flight safety-esque beer pong guide

It’s Friday. You might need this vintage-looking guide on how to play beer…

State of Wikipedia, 10 years later

In their most recent video (below) to their “State of…” series, JESS3 takes…

How Starbucks’ new Trenta compares to your stomach

Starbucks recently announced their next size up from 591-milliliter Venti: the Trenta. It’s…

Open thread: Is this map too confusing?

This map, a collaboration between Good and Gregory Hubacek, shows three metrics from…

Size of the Universe

Because you can never get enough videos to remind you how tiny you…

In investing, timing is everything

When you invest in stocks, it’s not just what you invest in, but…

Haiti’s earthquake in context

Haiti’s earthquake in 2010 was by far the most devastating in a long…

Aerial photos of destruction in Haiti, one year later

In memory of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti one year ago on…

Mapping and documenting a year of travels

Cartographer Andy Woodruff documents all the places he goes, resulting in the pretty…

Price and adoption timeline of gadgets

New gadgets, from Web-connected TVs, to smartphones, to Fax machines, always seem to…

Visualizing deletion discussions on Wikipedia

Fact is not always clear cut. Sometimes fact is driven by opinion. People…

Football supporter map of London

Map of London colored by what team the majority supports. Not much of…

Our changing world in cartograms

In this series of interactive cartograms, FedEx shows our changing world (and I…

Physics of dynamic braking in slow motion

When you slow down your car, energy dissipates into the air as heat.…

Map of North American English dialects and subdialects

Rick Aschmann has made a hobby out of studying and mapping North American…

7 billion people in motion graphics

National Geographic argues a need for balance across the world population in the…

Delicious mass exodus

On news that Delicious is on Yahoo’s sunset list, thousands of people decided…

The Dow Piano audiolizes the stock market in 2010

CNNMoney audiolizes the stock market in 2010 with the Dow Piano. Each day’s…