animation

Antibiotic history and the winning bacteria

Infographics / animation, antibiotics, health, Quartz

We take antibiotics. Bacteria dies, but some lives, evolves and develops a resistance…
Nuclear detonations from 1945 to present

Maps / animation, bomb, nuclear

There have been over 2,000 nuclear detonations since 1945. Orbital Mechanics mapped each…
Animated map shows Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Maps / animation, Slate, slavery

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database provides records for thousands of voyages between the…
Animated history of US county boundaries

Maps / animation, boundaries

Here’s a straightforward animation that shows US county boundaries change between 1629 and…
One animated art piece per day, with D3.js

Data Art / animation, d3js

Data-Driven Documents, or D3.js, is a flexible JavaScript library that lets you draw…
Data trails explainer

Infographics / animation, Erica Gorochow, Jer Thorp

We produce data all the time, everywhere we go, and this process implies…
Bike share data in New York, animated

Data Sources / animation, biking, New York

Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…
Timeline shows a century of rock history

Network Visualization / animation, music, rock

Jessica Edmondson visualized the history of rock music, from foundations in the pre-1900s…
Digital attack map

Maps / animation, DDOS, Google

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack attempts to disable a site or…
Evolution of western dance music

Network Visualization / animation, cartogram, dance

A quick animated look on the evolution of western dance music, a mixture…
Maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea, animated

Maps / animation, Baltic Sea, traffic

Digital artist Lauri Vanhala animated a day of maritime traffic in the Baltic…
Central limit theorem animation

Statistical Visualization / animation, central limit theorem, D3

The central limit theorem:
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states…
DDoS attack animation

Visualization / animation, DDOS

In distributed denial-of-service attack a bunch of machines make a bunch of requests…
Meteorites seen falling since 2500BC visualized

Visualization / animation, meteorites

About 35,000 meteorites have been recorded since 2500 BC, and a little over…
Map of live Wikipedia changes

Maps / animation, Wikipedia

On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…
Gun deaths since Sandy Hook

Maps / animation, Huffington Post, violence

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…
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How to Make an Animated Growth Map in R

Tutorials / animation, R, Walmart

Although time series plots and small multiples can go a long way, animation can make your data feel more real and relatable. Here is how to do it in R via the animated GIF route.
A shroud of cold air descends on the U.S.

Maps / animation, NOAA, weather

From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…
Ten years of cumulative precipitation

Maps / animation, weather

We’ve all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I…
2012 political donations mapped over time

Maps / animation, government

Following their animated and narrated visualization on political contributions over time, VisPolitics maps…