Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Visualizing the United States Power Grid
NPR provides an in depth view of the U.S. electric grid, exploring the…
A Couple New Looks for Google News
The ever popular newsmap (above), a tree map view of Google News, got…
How Long Will the World’s Natural Resources Last?
This graphic from New Scientist shows when certain natural resources will run out…
Visual Guides to the World of Street Vendors
There are over 10,000 street vendors in New York City. But how much…
Visual Representation of Tabular Information – How to Fix the Uncommunicative Table
This is a guest post by Martin Krzywinski who develops Circos, a GPL-licensed…
Jobs Vanish Across Our Country
As a nation, we gained jobs every month during 2007 compared to the…
Creating a World in Holograms
This holographic video by Bruce Branit is completely fictional but oh so sexy.…
Geography of Buzz In Los Angeles and New York
Elizabeth Currid (USC) and Sarah Williams (Columbia University), collaborate to map the geography…
Campaign Contributions to the 110th Congress
This network graph shows common contributions between representatives in Congress:
A relationship exists…
Zappos Maps Sales in Real-time
Zappos, the online shoe retailer, maps sales across the United States in real-time.…
Web Trends Map from Information Architects, 4th edition
Information Architects, a design firm with offices in Japan and Zurich, release their…
Sprint Commercial Tells Us What’s Happening Right Now
Sprint’s “now” promotion seems to be in full swing. In line with their…
24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr
Daniel Catt from Flickr maps 24 hours worth of geotagged photos (about 64,000…
Music That Makes You Dumb
Virgil Griffith, a CalTech graduate student, follows up books that make you dumb…
Make This Sitcom Map More Informative
This map from Dan Meth displays popular sitcoms by where they took place.…
Phrase Net Shows the Secret Life of Words
Many Eyes, the social data analysis site, released another visualization tool – Phrase…
New York Times Shines at International Infographics Awards
The infographics and news design blogs have been buzzing the past few days…
