Visualization

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

12 Cool Visualizations to Explore Books

There's reading a book, and then there's looking at, exploring, and experiencing a book. That's what visualization is for.

Personal Visualization for the Obsessive Compulsive

Ash Spurr, in a project to try to understand Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, took…

Voting Breakdown for Democratic Presidential Primaries

The above New York Times graphic shows where each candidate got his or…

Watch TED Talks in Sphere Form – TEDSphere

The Bestiario design group seems to have been busy lately. Their latest project,…

What Are Your Favorite Data Visualizations in Recent Memory?

It’s time for a reader discussion, open thread, etc. Today’s question is: What…

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.…