Alex Rodriguez became only the seventh player in MLB history to hit 600…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Alex Rodriguez joins the 600 club
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$8.7b Iraq development funds unaccounted for
A simple question from GOOD magazine: where did the money to rebuild Iraq…
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Exploring the Reach of Firefox
Once every blue moon I like to freelance as a short break from…
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Redesign of the Federal IT Dashboard
About a year after the launch of the Federal IT Dashboard, business intelligence…
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Exploration of our aging world
From Ben Fry’s newly established Fathom Information Design, is a visualization for GE…
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Gapminder makes its way to the desktop
You’ve seen the presentation. You’ve seen the motion graph tool. But up until…
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How Britain has changed since 1997
Prospect Magazine takes a look at how Britain has changed by the numbers…
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JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0 released
Visualization in JavaScript is all the rage these days. Just a couple of…
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Strata of common and not so common colors
In another look at the data from xkcd’s color experiment, Stephen Von Worley…
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Protovis 3.2 released – more examples and layouts
The most recent version of Protovis, the open-source visualization library that uses JavaScript…
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Current tracks and visualizes memes
It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…
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What America spends on food and drink
How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.
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Driving habits and gas prices shift into reverse
Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times looks at driving habits and gas…
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Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript
Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.
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Tax brackets over the past century
Stephen Von Worley’s Weather Sealed is one of my new favorites. In his…
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March Madness Bracketology
The Final Four is just about here. Who’s going to win it all?…
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Statistical Atlas from the ninth Census in 1870
In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States’ very first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census.
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Canada: the country that pees together stays together
EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada…