Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Challenge: Let’s do something with these 3-D pyramids
The government recommends a diet for healthy living, but there are billions of dollars of lopsided subsidies. Interesting point. Funky presentation.
Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris
We Feel Fine, by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, is a selection of some of the best entries from the database of 12 million emotions, along with some insights into the growing dataset.
What burger chain reigns supreme?
In a follow up to his McDonald’s map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather…
Canada: the country that pees together stays together
EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada…
Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm
In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to…
Edward Tufte will serve on Recovery Independent Advisory Panel
Big news for all you Edward Tufte fanboys and girls. He will be…
Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores
FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One…
The State of the Internet
From JESS3 is this video on the state of the internet. It’s essentially…
Olympic musical – how fractions of second make all the difference
Like everyone, I’ve been watching the Olympics, and it continues to amaze me…
Evolution of Olympic Pictograms
Every Olympics since 1936 has had a series of pictograms (i.e. icons that look like restroom signs) that represents the events.
Challenge: make this graph easier to read
The Economist discusses the return of big government and includes this graph showing total government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product. Is there a better way to represent the time series?
An Exploration of Biological Records
The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona has a growing database of 50,000 records…
Man as Industrial Palace, Animated
In 1926, Fritz Kahn illustrated man as a working factory in his famous…
Sunlight Labs releases mapping framework, ClearMaps
Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…
OpenStreetMap Edits Towards Haiti Relief
ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…
How a Giant Shark Took Down an Airplane
This graphic from designer Stephen Taubman is entertaining in so many ways. It…
