Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
8 Reasons Why I Do Not Like Data360
Data360, the online social data application, clearly doesn't compare against similar sites like Many Eyes and Swivel. Data360 is clunky, difficult to use, confusing, and undeveloped.
Sit Back and Relax with Casual Information Visualization
Zachary Pousman et al. write in their paper Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of…
Names Mentioned in Debates by Major Presidential Candidates
As usual, The New York Times graphics department churns out another useful graphic. This time it's in network diagram form.
One Day in the Life of the Average American
Time Magazine’s multimedia section has a fun, little piece showing some statistics for…
Three Designers, a Statistician, and Migration Inflows Data
After two weeks at Visualizar, I’m back in the United States. It’s good…
San Francisco Police Department Incident Reporting and Analysis Tool
I came across the San Francisco Police Department Incident and Reporting Tool, and…
News Flowing Through Moveable Type at The New York Times Building
Every day during the summer I walked past “Moveable Type” in The New…
Many Eyes Now Has Better Mapping Visualization
Many Eyes now has more detailed mapping functionality with the help of ESRI…
US Demographics Visualizer Using Virtual Earth
While on the topic of maps here’s a Microsoft Virtual Earth mashup —…
Watch the Money Clock to See What You’ve Earned
Despite being surrounded with ads, this money clock was kind of, um, interesting.…
Competitive Edge Explorer to Display Demographics
The Competitive Edge Explorer is a mapping project from the MIT Laboratory for…
A Magazine Dedicated Entirely to Visualizing Something Useful
GOOD Magazine is “media for people who give a damn.”
While so much…
How Do You Visualize Time in a Drawing?
Icastic has a fun (and growing) collection of (currently) 247 hand-drawings from contributors…
Presidential Nomination Polls With Smoothers
It almost feels like I see a new poll every day for who’s…
World Freedom Atlas
World Freedom Atlas is an online geo-visualization tool that shows a number of…
Find a Replacement for this Ugly Venn Diagram
This venn diagram showing results from tests for Autism really seems to be…
Misleading Map of Buffalo Snow
I saw this map of the average snow levels in Buffalo. I think…
Visualization of US Flight Patterns
When I think airplanes and data visualization, I think of Aaron Koblin’s Flight…
