Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Kincade fire in Sonoma County via satellite imagery
You can see the time-lapsed imagery with this browser. [via @weatherdak]…
Visualizing the Friends sitcom
Marion Rouayroux, a graphic designer and a big fan of the show Friends,…
Photographs from above, an Overview
Overview is an ongoing project that uses a zoomed out view for a…
Scientology city takeover
For Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus and Eli Murray delve into the purchasing…
Fall foliage colors mapped
For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…
Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram
As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…
Animated line chart to show the rich paying less taxes
David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…
The early beginnings of visual thinking
Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…
Game: How many US cities can you name?
How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…
Diverging line plot as the perfect comic
This is perfect. Willikin Wolf made characters out of two dots moving along…
Pixelation to represent endangered species counts
In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…
Detailed generative art in R
Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…
Street suffixes show the organization of cities
The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…
Analysis of street network orientation in cities
Continuing his analysis of street grid-iness in cities around the world, Geoff Boeing…
Jewelry based on your GPS traces
GPX Jewelry by Rachel Binx lets you turn your GPS traces into jewelry.…
How well players drafted in fantasy football
For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy used a heatmap to visualize fantasy football draft…
Who owns the most land in the U.S.
Bloomberg News mapped the land owned by the largest owners:
The 100 largest…
