Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Evolution of Facebook privacy policies
There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about Facebook’s newly installed privacy policies. It…
Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript
Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.
Tracking the oil spill
For those following the status of the oil spill, the New York Times…
How men and women label colors
Along the same lines of Dolores Labs’ color experiment, Randall Munroe of xkcd…
Planets make sweet music together
SolarBeat is an audiolization by Whitevinyl that makes music with the planets. Each…
Cultural colors of emotion and character
Some colors represent different things in different parts of the world, while others…
Seeing the art in cartography
In much of the same spirit of the recent Cartographies of Time, the…
Connections among Twitter employees
Because you can never get enough Twitter visualizations, Jason Stirman takes a look…
Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy
It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been…
Discuss: Powerpoint is the enemy?
In reference to the above, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, leader of the American…
Tax brackets over the past century
Stephen Von Worley’s Weather Sealed is one of my new favorites. In his…
Air traffic rebooted in northern Europe
Air traffic has returned to normal levels in northern Europe, and planes fill…
Conversational Twitter threads visualized
Add another piece to the ever-growing list of Twitter visualizations. What makes Moritz…
Trustworthiness of beards
Matt McInerney of pixelspread describes the trustworthiness of the people behind their facial…
A guide to geostatistical mapping with open-source tools
Mapping with R and other free and open-source programs feels clunky and hacked-together…
Local neighborhood infographics
Good Mag put on an infographic contest not too long ago that asked…
A flowchart to decide what typeface to use
A typeface can make or break your graphic. Use Comic Sans, and no…
Clothing color palette
Jacobo Zanella makes a color palette every day, based on the clothes he’s…
