Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Current tracks and visualizes memes
It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…
Elastic Lists code open-sourced
Moritz Stefaner, whose work we’ve seen a few times here on FD, just…
World atlas of Flickr geotaggers is maptastic
In a different look to the let’s-map-geotagged-photos idea, photographer Eric Fischer maps picture…
Map of where toursists flock
Bluemoon Interactive, a small codeshop, maps touristiness, based on uploads to Panoramio, a…
Most influential people on Twitter – Cosmic 140
Information Architects just released their annual Web Trends Map, but it’s not about…
Fake filming locations of Paramount Studios
This might shock you, but many movies are not filmed on location. Yeah.…
Tour of advanced visualization techniques
Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky provide a good overview of some…
Twitwee the Twitter cuckoo clock
I love it when data, or in this case, tweets, finds itself in…
Senate and House races are on
I’m not proud of this, but I know very little about what’s going…
Design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece
In 1934, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, a house built partly…
Facebook privacy options untangled
People are up in arms about Facebook’s new privacy policies, partly because some…
What America spends on food and drink
How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.
Interview: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Andrew interviews Fernanda and Martin about their new venture Flowing Media, visualization, and their amazing taste in adjectives.
Driving habits and gas prices shift into reverse
Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times looks at driving habits and gas…
The path to successful infographics
Most people don’t know what actually goes into a good infographic. There’s a…
Dreaming in numbers
Cristobal Vila, inspired by, well, numbers and nature, Vila animates the natural existence of Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, and Delaunay triangulation. Watch it. Even if you don't know what those three things are, the video will rock your socks off.
Nutritional facts redesigned
Nutrition facts labels are uniform across products, but let's imagine for a second that you could do whatever you want, just as long they showed certain bits of information. FFunction takes a stab at redesigning the standard milk carton under this premise.
