Visualization

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

Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans

Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…

Algorithmic architecture with balls

Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…

Mexican drug cartel network map

I’m not entirely sure what we’re looking at here, other than relationships between…

What New Yorkers complain about

Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…

When people break up, according to Facebook updates

For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…

Review: Atlas of Science, Visualizing What We Know

Katy Börner, professor of information science, catalogs visualization and science in Atlas of…

Keeping an eye on election results

All eyes here in the states will be on election results tonight, and…

Past century of government and economy

John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…

Issues Americans care about

Every year the Pew Research Center asks Americans what their top political priority…

Billionaires’ favorite politicians

Jon Bruner for Forbes reports on billionaire contributions to politicians over the past…

The Election on Twitter

In what seems to have become an expectation during all major events, a…

Visualizing NFL statistics

Sports statistics. Always so many tables. Juice Analytics takes a more visual approach…

Iraq War logs released by Wikileaks shed new light

This past Friday, Wikileaks released a second batch of reports on Iraq: At…

Find your flight via visual interface

Booking flights became so much easier when it all shifted online, but it…

Average age of Congress over time

I don’t know about you, but I tend to associate Congress with an…

Mad Men office floor plan

I’ve never seen an episode, but if my Twitter stream has taught me…

Animated graphic on why you should shut off your work computer

Millions of people leave their work computer on every day, thus wasting lots…

True size of Africa

Online maps that we use for directions use the Mercator projection, and this…