Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Twitter Mentionmap and Correlations at your.flowingdata
your.flowingdata got a couple of cool updates recently. One is based on your…
Microsoft Live Labs Pivot: Interact With Massive Amounts of Data
What if you could see all the individual bits of information scattered across…
How to Make an Interactive Area Graph with Flare
You’ve seen the NameExplorer from the Baby Name Wizard by Martin Wattenberg. It’s…
8 Great Gifts for Your Data Geek
The gift-giving season is here, and you’re probably wondering what to get everybody.…
The Geography of AIDS Around the World
It was World AIDS Day last week and UNAIDS published the latest estimates…
Should You Get the H1N1 Vaccine?
David McCandless, author of The Visual MIscellaneum, delves into the usefulness of the…
Stat Charts Get a New York Times Redesign
Statistical graphics are often… kind of bland. But that’s fine, because they’re usually…
A New Way to Search Images With Google Image Swirl
There’s this branch in computer science and statistics for vision research. Normally, if…
Can You Guess What These Maps Show?
I’m no doubt still under massive food coma at this time, but in…
What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving, Mapped and Ranked
Food-wise, Thanksgiving is different across the country. In some places you’re going to…
Battle of the Coverage Maps: Verizon vs. AT&T
Verizon has been running these ads lately that compare their 3G coverage to…
The Cost of Getting Sick
GE and Ben Fry (now the director of SEED visualization), show the cost…
Buzzwords in Academic Papers (Comic)
This comic was really amusing, although it might be because I’m a big…
Choose Your Own Adventure – Watch the Stories Unfold
Interaction designer Christian Swinehart takes a careful look at the popular Choose Your…
The Future: Embedding Data in the Everyday
Imagine a world where data becomes the everyday, simply embedded in what you…
Review: The Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless
David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential…
Land Mass and Population by Country
From Herald Daily is this giganto view of land mass and population size…
