Visualization

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

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…

Conversation with Obama: track and ask questions on Twitter

President Obama will be answering questions live at a youth town hall today…

Explanation of current economic slump

Neil Irwin and Alicia Parlapiano of The Washington Post report with this interactive…

How K-12 schools in your area measure up

In collaboration with NBC News and The Gates Foundation, Ben Fry-headed Fathom Design…

Where refugees come from

Thousands of people flee their country every year, and the travel patterns are…

Software evolution storylines

In a follow up to code_swarm, a visualization to show the development of…

Mobile patent lawsuits

It seems like all the mobile groups are suing each other these days.…

Map series of oil spill in Gulf

Everyone’s fascinated with animated graphics, which is cool, but sometimes a series of…

Fictional map of online communities

xkcd + numbers on online communities. Need I say more? Along the same…

Typographic maps

Cartography group Axis Maps continues their run of mapping goodness with the announcement…