Visualization

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

Find Your Dream Home (or Fantasize) With Trulia Snapshot

Trulia, the real estate search site, launched Trulia Snapshot today in collaboration with…

Flickr Tags and Pictures as a Universe – Tag Galaxy

Steven Wood‘s thesis project, Tag Galaxy is a beautiful piece of work to…

5 Data Visualization Dissertations Worth a Look

It’s coming to the end of the academic year, which means there are…

Measuring Informational Distance Between Cities

Bestiario, the group behind 6pli, recently put up their piece that maps informational…

Tracking Manny Ramirez’s Hunt for 500 Homers

The Boston Globe lets readers explore home run data for the Boston Red…

Quickie Visualizations for Debugging

This guest post is by Rahul Bhargava, a Senior Software Engineer at nTAG…

Why Isn’t Data Visualization More Popular?

Todd provides 5 reasons why data visualization isn’t more prevalent: People don’t know…

Flocking Up the National Nine News

At the bottom of each article on National Nine News (Australian MSN), there’s…

Mapping the Human Diseasome With a Network Graph

Matthew Block and Jonathan Corum from The New York Times use a network…

NewsWare Launches to Explore and Interact with News on msnbc.com

NewsWare was launched yesterday on msnbc.com. It’s a set of apps, games, and…

American Consumers Spend More Money On Cheese than On Computers

In a deviation from the usual pie chart and standard tree map, this…

Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish on Twitter

Inspired by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s We Feel Fine, and using data…

All 26 Million Road Segments in Continental United States

Ben Fry maps every road segment in All Streets, according to the U.S.…

Poverty Statistics that Make Sense – Welcome to Povertyville and Slumtown

Dan Beech represents worldwide poverty in this video, which is actually a 3-dimensional…

Rolling Out Your Own Online Maps and Graphs with HTML/CSS

Wilson Miner and Paul Smith, two co-founders of Everyblock, post tutorials and a…

Showing the Obama-Clinton Divide in Decision Tree Infographic

Amanda Cox, of The New York Times, made another excellent graphic (and I…

Hierarchical Glossary as Interactive Network Graphs

Moritz has been working on visualization of a hierarchical glossary carefully named “Glossary…

Facebook Lexicon – Trends for Writings on the Wall

Facebook recently released Lexicon which is like a Google Trends or Technorati for…