Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
How Twitter users balanced the budget
In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…
Evolution of the two-party vote during past century
Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…
Mapping human development in America
In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…
Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles
TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods:
We wanted…
What generation do you belong to?
In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…
Why network visualization is useful
AT&T Labs’ Infoviz research group describes network graphs and their many uses:
There…
The very first NYT election map
Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…
You fix the budget puzzle
Not pleased with how the government is handling the budget and deficit? Fine.…
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…
