Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time
I admit it. When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors,…
Two-minute journey through the history of cinema
35mm, a short film by Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, and Pascal…
Ugly chart used to confuse readers
Charles Blow on this unnecessarily complex chart used to show the network of…
Brief history of data visualization
Shawn Allen of Stamen Design provides a brief history of data visualization, starting…
Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped
This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…
Where all the BP oil could end up
Now that the oil flow has finally stopped, for now, the attention has…
Military budget contextualized with CGI tanks
It’s no secret. The US military gets a lot of funding for manpower,…
Exploration of our aging world
From Ben Fry’s newly established Fathom Information Design, is a visualization for GE…
Field guide to typographic moustaches
Sure, why not, let’s make it a hairy Friday. From Tor Weeks: a…
History of The Beatles as told by their hair
The Beatles were famously known for their mop-top haircuts in the early 1960s,…
Global forest heights mapped in detail by NASA
NASA has mapped the world’s forest heights, based on satellite data, for a…
Investigation of top secret America
In response to the the 9/11 attacks, the United States government created a…
Citizen’s guide to fancy pants coffee drinks
In the same spirit of the original coffee drink infographic from a few…
Maps that changed the world
Peter Barber, head of Map Collections at the British Library reports for the…
Path to happiness gets complicated and confusing
Just when you thought the path to lifelong happiness was uber simple and…
Gapminder makes its way to the desktop
You’ve seen the presentation. You’ve seen the motion graph tool. But up until…
