Visualization

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

Global search volume by language

To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API…

Stats of the Union tells health stories in America

Stats of the Union, the new Fathom-produced iPad app, maps the status of…

Where the water resources are and where they go

Designer David Wicks compares rainfall against water consumption in his thesis project Drawing…

One man’s travel patterns – Atlas of the Habitual

FInding himself in a new town, with a new job, Tim Clark started…

Reactions to the death of a terrorist

On the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, there was a mixed reaction…

Oil spill amounts in perspective

On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, designer Chris Harmon…

Perceived vs. actual country rankings

Lisa Strausfeld, in collaboration with GE, compares perceived country rankings and actual ones.…

Tweets per second during Bin Laden announcement

As I listened to my young neighbors run around the parking lot chanting,…

Women’s dress sizes demystified

Women’s clothing sizes have always confused me. My wife always has to try…

Mac vs. PC people

Recommendation site Hunch is another one of those applications that knows a ton…

New York Times R&D Lab explores how news is shared and read with Project Cascade

For online publications, it’s useful to know how people share links to articles…

History of detainees at Guantánamo

On January 11, 2002 the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo. On January 22,…

Water changes everything in motion graphics

In the most recent media push for Charity: Water, a video of motion…

Art, science, and cartography

Similar discussions going on in the cartography branch among UW Madison geography folks.…

How long it takes for house prices to drop

Shopping for a house? Sometimes it can be advantageous to wait a while,…

Map your location – that your iPhone secretly records

Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…

See what you and others tweet about with the Topic Explorer

When you first come across a Twitter account it can be hard to…

Visualization as a mass medium in the 21st century

In an op-ed for CNN and perhaps adding fuel to the fire, Martin…