To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used…
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Mapping every voter as a grain of sand
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Visual Metaphor
Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at…
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Shifts in time on the Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical clock that symbolizes a catastrophic end to…
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Immigration in the United States visualized as rings of tree trunk
Pedro M. Cruz, John Wihbey, Avni Ghael and Felipe Shibuya from Northeastern University…
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Same money, different counting strategies
Condé Nast Traveler got 70 people from 70 different countries to count money…
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Interactive lets you fly through a software galaxy
This is a fun one. Software Galaxies by Andrei Kashcha visualizes popular software…
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Open thread: Are we drowning or swimming in data?
After reading another article about the flood of data that we’re drowning and…
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Open thread: Data as cake and frosting?
Mark Johnstone uses a cake metaphor to represent data, presentation, and what you…
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Science as metaphor
In this article from Science from July 1998, award-winning journalist John Banville on…
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