Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Guess What State Searches for ‘Poo’ the Most – StateStats
StateStats is like Google Insights but on a state level. Type in a…
Typographic Illustration for Jay-Z’s ‘Brooklyn Go Hard’
Evan Roth from the Graffiti Research Lab, uses typographic illustration in Jay-Z’s music…
Visualization Projects from Database City – Visualizar’08
This is a guest post by Greg J. Smith, a Toronto-based designer and…
Neighborhood Boundaries with Flickr Shapefiles
Neighborhood Boundaries by Tom Taylor uses Flickr Shapefiles and Yahoo! Geoplanet “to show…
Explore Your Feeds in a Cloud of Posts – RSS Voyage
I’m not exactly sure what I’m seeing here, but Voyage, by Andy Biggs,…
Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
If you’re like most people, you don’t really know what’s going on with…
Facebook Friend Activity Seen Around the World
Palantir, by Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der, and Dan Weatherford of Facebook, visualizes friend…
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…
