Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Challenge: Advertised vs. actual waistline

Ever notice how pants seem to fit differently from store-to-store even though they’re…

Exploratory tool for school admissions

With thousands of applications, it can be tough deciding who to admit in…

Music listening preferences by gender

Last.fm intern Joachim Van Herwegen has a quick look at listening habits by…

Expense visualizer

In an effort to make Canadian government expense data more accessible, FFunction designed…

Faith and poverty in the world

Using data from a recent Gallup report showing a correlation between wealth and…

Countries of the world ranked by stuff

What country has the best education? Health? Quality of life? Thomas Klepl and…

Stacked area shows the Web is dead?

Wired has declared that the Web is dead in their September cover story,…

Alex Rodriguez joins the 600 club

Alex Rodriguez became only the seventh player in MLB history to hit 600…

$8.7b Iraq development funds unaccounted for

A simple question from GOOD magazine: where did the money to rebuild Iraq…

Exploring the Reach of Firefox

Once every blue moon I like to freelance as a short break from…

Redesign of the Federal IT Dashboard

About a year after the launch of the Federal IT Dashboard, business intelligence…

Exploration of our aging world

From Ben Fry’s newly established Fathom Information Design, is a visualization for GE…

Gapminder makes its way to the desktop

You’ve seen the presentation. You’ve seen the motion graph tool. But up until…

How Britain has changed since 1997

Prospect Magazine takes a look at how Britain has changed by the numbers…

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0 released

Visualization in JavaScript is all the rage these days. Just a couple of…

Strata of common and not so common colors

In another look at the data from xkcd’s color experiment, Stephen Von Worley…

Protovis 3.2 released – more examples and layouts

The most recent version of Protovis, the open-source visualization library that uses JavaScript…

Current tracks and visualizes memes

It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…