Visualization

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

US Oil Doesn’t Come From Where You Think it Does

Where do you think the US imports the most oil from? Most of…

Using Data Visualization to Forecast Financial Markets

This is a guest post by Simit Patel of InformedTrades, which offers free…

Cotton Picking Correlates to President Picking

The U.S. election is over. The post-election analyses begin. The above map shows…

Mmm, Chocolate Pie… Chart

In the spirit of turning pie charts into food, Mary and Matt kick…

Word Portraits of Famous People – Einstein and Ginger the Cockapoo

Jeff Clark of Neoformix has been doing some cool stuff with words lately.…

Minority Report Physical Interface in Real Life – Oblong g-speak

Remember the awesome interface in Minority Report? You know, the one where Tom…

Open Thread: I Don’t Care About the Data…

Martin briefly discusses a presentation at a recent visualization workshop. The speaker blurts,…

Alternative to Cartograms Using Transparency

The thing about cartograms is that it’s hard to make out what you’re…

Google Uses Search Terms to Predict Flu Activity

In Google Flu Trends, Google uses related searches to predict flu activity in…

672 Obama Headlines – Both Browsable and Readable

Vertigo put together a great collection of 672 Obama headlines using Silverlight’s deep…

Exploration of Our Presidents’ First 100 Days in Office

GOOD Magazine and Atley Kasky collaborate to explore U.S. Presidents’ first 100 days…

Maps and Cartograms of 2008 Presidential Election

Cartograms got a lot of coverage in 2004 when Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi,…

Diagrams Galore in Diagram Diaries Flickr Group

For those watching the clock and waiting for the weekend to hurry up…

Sprint Dashboard to the Universe – Plug Into Now

Sprint, in a promotion to their mobile Internet service, created this amusing futuristic…

Obama and McCain Voters’ Current State of Mind

The New York Times adds another item to the list of things to…

Google Visualization API Opens Up

When Google first launched their visualization API, you could only use data that…

Showing This Many Per Second – Data Humanized

I’ve always thought one of the best ways to make data relate-able is…

European Economic Weather Map – Sudden Change in Outlook

In this map from the Financial Times, the state of Europe’s economy is…