Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Twitwee the Twitter cuckoo clock
I love it when data, or in this case, tweets, finds itself in…
Senate and House races are on
I’m not proud of this, but I know very little about what’s going…
Design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece
In 1934, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, a house built partly…
Facebook privacy options untangled
People are up in arms about Facebook’s new privacy policies, partly because some…
What America spends on food and drink
How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.
Interview: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Andrew interviews Fernanda and Martin about their new venture Flowing Media, visualization, and their amazing taste in adjectives.
Driving habits and gas prices shift into reverse
Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times looks at driving habits and gas…
The path to successful infographics
Most people don’t know what actually goes into a good infographic. There’s a…
Dreaming in numbers
Cristobal Vila, inspired by, well, numbers and nature, Vila animates the natural existence of Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, and Delaunay triangulation. Watch it. Even if you don't know what those three things are, the video will rock your socks off.
Nutritional facts redesigned
Nutrition facts labels are uniform across products, but let's imagine for a second that you could do whatever you want, just as long they showed certain bits of information. FFunction takes a stab at redesigning the standard milk carton under this premise.
Evolution of Facebook privacy policies
There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about Facebook’s newly installed privacy policies. It…
Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript
Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.
Tracking the oil spill
For those following the status of the oil spill, the New York Times…
How men and women label colors
Along the same lines of Dolores Labs’ color experiment, Randall Munroe of xkcd…
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…
