Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Visualize Music Collections With MusicBox
The great thing about being a graduate student is that you get to…
Sculptural Data Visualization – Stock Market and GDP
In his latest data sculptures, Andreas Nicolas Fischer places data visualization in a…
Winner of Tufte Books and Many Other Good Entries
I ran a contest last week to improve a graph from Swivel that…
What Jobs Are There in Data Visualization?
I got an email from Harald asking, “How does the job market for…
Navigate Articles, Photos, and Video from Around the Globe
The Washington Post recently put up TimeSpace: World, which is an interactive map…
Explore and Analyze Geographic Data with UUorld
UUorld (pronounced “world”) is a 4-dimensional mapping tool that lets you explore geographic…
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.…
