Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
NSF Announces 2009 Visualization Contest Winners
The National Science Foundation announced the 2009 winners of their annual visualization challenge.…
Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong provides the dos and don'ts of data presentation.
Road to Recovery – Is the Recovery Act working?
The Obama administration just posted a graph showing monthly job loss from December…
Build Online Visualization for Free with Tableau Public
Tableau Software, popular for making data more accessible, mainly in the business sector,…
Watching the Pulse of the Olympics on Twitter
The Olympics are in full swing, so of course Twitter is abuzz with…
