Visualization

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

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…

John Snow’s Famous Cholera Map

If you’ve read any books on visualization, without a doubt, you’ve seen John…

Showing Large Numbers to Scale

Chris Jordan’s series, Running the Numbers: An American Portrait, just opened this weekend…

iPod Design and Apple Stock Over the Years

Wall Street Journal put up a nice little graphic showing the evolution of…

Not so Hot Graphs in Academic Papers

Karl Broman has an amusing list of the top ten worst graphs found…

The Times: Wealthiest Americans Ever

In honor of my New York Times induction day, a visualization of The…

More Mapping from amMap Offering Flexibility

Yes, more mapping. Map, map, map. amMap offers a Flash-based mapping tool that…

Gas Prices Over Time, 2000-2006

While on the subject of gas prices, Foreign Policy has a graph of…

America Wins in Petrol Consumption per Day

A very simple graph from The Economist (spiced up a bit with a…

Visualization of Taste Explosions from Ratatouille

By now, I’m sure everyone has heard of Pixar’s most recent movie, Ratatouille.…

History Over Space and Time

As a representation of history over time and space, Maps of War does…

Twittervision Adds a Third Dimension

Twittervision is a Google Maps mashup using the Twitter RSS feed. As people…