Visualization

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

Location check-ins during South by Southwest

Location-aware apps are the hot topic nowadays, and with all the tech-oriented people…

Map and report data with InstantAtlas

As you know, there’s this big wave of transparency going on right now,…

Mapping GitHub – a network of collaborative coders

GitHub is a large community where coders can collaborate on software development projects.…

Japan, the strange country, in motion graphics

Design student Kenichi Tanaka animates the history of Japan for his final thesis…

March Madness Bracketology

The Final Four is just about here. Who’s going to win it all?…

Wear the weather as a bracelet

We all know that data is the new sexy, so it’s only natural…

What your email says about your finances

This graphic shows average debt categorized by email provider. Average age for Gmail…

The Growing Plague that is Spam

Spam sucks. We all hate it, but no matter how good the filter,…

Poll: What do you mostly use visualization for?

We use visualization for a lot of different things, and its purpose varies…

March Madness by the numbers

I didn’t fill out my bracket this year, so it’s not nearly as…

Notes from Interactive Infographics #interinfo #sxsw

Yesterday was the Interactive Infographics panel at South by Southwest, and if Twitter…

Use your skills to help others

Designer Christopher Harrell talks about, with a dose of various embedded graphics, pointing…

Statistical Atlas from the ninth Census in 1870

In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States' very first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census.

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…