Visualization

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

The Geography of Job Loss

While on the topic of job loss and unemployment, here’s an animated map…

Mass Layoffs by Industry

As we all know, many people, much more than usual, have lost their…

Trendsmap Shows Twitter Trends Geographically

Twitter shows trending topics, but it’s for the entire user base. You can…

Facebook Measures Happiness in Status Updates

As we all know, Facebook lets people update their friends with status updates,…

Google Acquisitions Subway Map

Tack another graphic to the growing list of subway map metaphors. Meet the…

Watch the Giants of Finance Shrink… Then Grow

From Karl Russel and Shan Carter of The New York Times is this…

Infographic Music Video on the Elements – They Might Be Giants

It’s not often you get a Grammy-winning band to play a song for…

Getting a Good Night’s Sleep – Good Night and Tough Luck

Hilarious as always, Christoph Niemann illustrates in his graphical New York Times op-ed…

Food Assistance on the Rise

GOOD magazine, in collaboration with Gavin Potenza, takes a look at food assistance…

Earth Through the Eyes of Astronauts

Bella Gaia, or Beautiful Earth, is a unique view of earth through the…

2009 MTV VMA Twitter Tracker Live

The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards are on right now (and I’m sure…

Vintage Infographics From the 1930s

Someone needs to get me a paper copy of Willard Cope Brinton’s Graphic…

3 In-depth Views of Flight Delays and Cancellations

Have you ever rushed to the airport only to find that your flight…

Stimulus Funding Map is ‘Slick as Hell’

As you know, states have received billions of dollars of federal stimulus funding.…

10 More Infographic Reasons Why You Should Go Green

In this day and age, we should all be thinking about how we…

Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas

Ben Fry, well-known for Processing and plenty of other data goodness, announced his…

A Road Map to Success

May you make it to the top of the mountain of success. I…

Highs and Lows of Being a Young Man

i-am-bored graphs the horrible to awesome of becoming a man. Growing up ain’t…