Visualization

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

Planets make sweet music together

SolarBeat is an audiolization by Whitevinyl that makes music with the planets. Each…

Cultural colors of emotion and character

Some colors represent different things in different parts of the world, while others…

Seeing the art in cartography

In much of the same spirit of the recent Cartographies of Time, the…

Connections among Twitter employees

Because you can never get enough Twitter visualizations, Jason Stirman takes a look…

Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy

It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been…

Discuss: Powerpoint is the enemy?

In reference to the above, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, leader of the American…

Tax brackets over the past century

Stephen Von Worley’s Weather Sealed is one of my new favorites. In his…

Air traffic rebooted in northern Europe

Air traffic has returned to normal levels in northern Europe, and planes fill…

Conversational Twitter threads visualized

Add another piece to the ever-growing list of Twitter visualizations. What makes Moritz…

Trustworthiness of beards

Matt McInerney of pixelspread describes the trustworthiness of the people behind their facial…

A guide to geostatistical mapping with open-source tools

Mapping with R and other free and open-source programs feels clunky and hacked-together…

Local neighborhood infographics

Good Mag put on an infographic contest not too long ago that asked…

A flowchart to decide what typeface to use

A typeface can make or break your graphic. Use Comic Sans, and no…

Clothing color palette

Jacobo Zanella makes a color palette every day, based on the clothes he’s…

Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline

I don’t often give in to impulse buys, but I just ordered Cartographies…

Gay marriage timeline

The Los Angeles Times reports on the chronology of gay rights in the…

The Ash Cloud and Airport Shutdowns

In case you’re following the craziness going on over Europe due to that…

Explorations of real-world traffic

We don't often get to see how cars, trains, airplanes, etc move in physical space, because, well, we're usually in them.