Visualization

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

Awards from Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Between February 17, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 88,791 awards have been funded…

The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling

The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…

Build your LinkedIn career tree

How did you get to where you are now in your work life?…

Girl Talk mashup breakdown visualized

In case you missed it, Girl Talk recently released his fifth album All…

How Twitter users balanced the budget

In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…

Evolution of the two-party vote during past century

Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…

Mapping human development in America

In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…

A world of tweets

We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…

Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles

TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods: We wanted…

What generation do you belong to?

In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…

Why network visualization is useful

AT&T Labs’ Infoviz research group describes network graphs and their many uses: There…

The very first NYT election map

Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…

You fix the budget puzzle

Not pleased with how the government is handling the budget and deficit? Fine.…

Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans

Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…

Algorithmic architecture with balls

Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…

Mexican drug cartel network map

I’m not entirely sure what we’re looking at here, other than relationships between…

What New Yorkers complain about

Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…

When people break up, according to Facebook updates

For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…