Visualization

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

Many Eyes Now Has Better Mapping Visualization

Many Eyes now has more detailed mapping functionality with the help of ESRI…

US Demographics Visualizer Using Virtual Earth

While on the topic of maps here’s a Microsoft Virtual Earth mashup —…

Watch the Money Clock to See What You’ve Earned

Despite being surrounded with ads, this money clock was kind of, um, interesting.…

Competitive Edge Explorer to Display Demographics

The Competitive Edge Explorer is a mapping project from the MIT Laboratory for…

A Magazine Dedicated Entirely to Visualizing Something Useful

GOOD Magazine is “media for people who give a damn.” While so much…

How Do You Visualize Time in a Drawing?

Icastic has a fun (and growing) collection of (currently) 247 hand-drawings from contributors…

Presidential Nomination Polls With Smoothers

It almost feels like I see a new poll every day for who’s…

World Freedom Atlas

World Freedom Atlas is an online geo-visualization tool that shows a number of…

Find a Replacement for this Ugly Venn Diagram

This venn diagram showing results from tests for Autism really seems to be…

Misleading Map of Buffalo Snow

I saw this map of the average snow levels in Buffalo. I think…

Visualization of US Flight Patterns

When I think airplanes and data visualization, I think of Aaron Koblin’s Flight…

John Snow’s Famous Cholera Map

If you’ve read any books on visualization, without a doubt, you’ve seen John…

Showing Large Numbers to Scale

Chris Jordan’s series, Running the Numbers: An American Portrait, just opened this weekend…

iPod Design and Apple Stock Over the Years

Wall Street Journal put up a nice little graphic showing the evolution of…

Not so Hot Graphs in Academic Papers

Karl Broman has an amusing list of the top ten worst graphs found…

The Times: Wealthiest Americans Ever

In honor of my New York Times induction day, a visualization of The…

More Mapping from amMap Offering Flexibility

Yes, more mapping. Map, map, map. amMap offers a Flash-based mapping tool that…

Gas Prices Over Time, 2000-2006

While on the subject of gas prices, Foreign Policy has a graph of…