January 2012
3 posts
Vive le tweet! A Map of Twitter's Languages →
The Latest Developments in Motion Capture →
Michael Bay, Jon Favreau, Ray Liotta, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel all participate in this Funny or Die video about the latest developments in motion capture. I don’t want to ruin it so just click on the link and watch the two-minute short. (Thanks, Daniel Savage, via Invisible Creature’s Twitter)
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December 2011
23 posts
Citeology: Visualizing the Relationships between... →
Justin Matejka at Autodesk Research has recently released the sophisticated visualization “Citeology: Visualizing Paper Genealogy” [autodeskresearch.com]. The visualization shows the…
Van Gogh for the colorblind →
After a chat with his color deficient friends about how Vincent van Gogh’s paintings seem to appeal to all eyes, Kazunori Asada used visual filters to see how the paintings looked to the…
Live is Beautiful: Real-Time Visualization of What... →
The chrome experiment “Live is Beautiful” [chromeexperiments.com] by 9elements is a live visualization of the activities facilitated by the photo sharing app img.ly. Although it is…
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011 →
I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked through the year’s post, it was hard not to. If last year (and maybe the year before) was the year of the gigantic graphic,…
When numbers are too factual →
Carl Bialik, for The Wall Street Journal, reports on PSAs and the use of scary numbers:
The Ad Council usually avoids statistics in PSAs. “We know from our experience that effective advertising…
Google Zeitgeist 2011: Search Query Statistics as... →
In a yearly tradition, Google has just released their yearly Zeitgeist statistics [googlezeitgeist.com], revealing the top 10 fastest-rising global queries, in addition to several other…
Charts with explosions now easier than ever →
Score.
London Underground Posters: Discovering Heritage... →
With more than 5,000 posters, the London Transport Museum has one of the largest poster archives in the world. From January 6 to March 18, 2012, it will host a retrospective exhibition…
Causation is real, people →
Stop global warming. Decrease the National Science Foundation’s R&D budget. It’s so easy. More lessons on correlation and causation found here.
What Facebook knows about you →
Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you do on their site. This shouldn’t be surprising given the more time people spend on Facebook, the greater the cash flow, but…
Facebook Platlas: Social Media Atlas Reveals All... →
Platlas - the Facebook Version [platlas.com] is not one of easiest interactive infographics around, as its attempts to provide a better understanding of the driving principles behind…
Fox News still makes awesome charts →
Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern that you might not see in a spreadsheet, but they only work when you use the actual data. Fox News isn’t doing…
Visualizing Everything Facebook Knows about You →
A couple of months ago, 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems requested Facebook for all his personal data. The European arm of Facebook, based in Dublin, Ireland, was obliged to…
Substratum: A series of interviews with smart... →
It’s always nice to hear from the people who are the best at what they do. Data visualization studio, Interactive Things has an interview series going, Substratum, that asks designers and artists…
Neighborhood Scoreboards: Exposing Energy... →
Neighborhood Scoreboards [neighbourhoodscoreboards.com] aims to include some healthy social competition in the monitoring of household energy consumption. Instead of keeping energy…
Visualize This: Signed copies available →
Quick announcement: I have a handful of signed Visualize This copies available in case you’re looking for a gift for that data geek cousin or you’re up for some learning over the holidays. I only…
40 years of boxplots →
Famed statistician John Tukey created the boxplot in 1970. It shows a distribution summary in a small amount of space. Hadley Wickham and Lisa Stryjewski look back on the old standby…
Amanda Cox Talks about Developing Infographics at... →
We know that The New York Times graphics department produces some of the best visualizations in the world. We have seen its director, Steve Duenes, give a talk about some of their best…
What seven billion people looks like →
Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity:
Dencity maps population density using circles of various size and hue. Larger, darker circles show areas…
Smiley installation shows the mood of a city →
Project Stimmungsgasometer (say what?) is a giant smiley face that changes based on the mood of Berlin citizens. When they are collectively “happy” the light is a smile, and when they…
Follow the Hash Tag: A Dynamic Bubble Graph of... →
Follow the Hash Tag [followthehashtag.com] by Madrid-based communication design office DNOiSE is a viral advertising tool, but also a live visualization of popular Tweet topics. The…
Shan Carter on data storytelling →
Shan Carter, who makes interactive graphics for The New York Times, talks telling stories with data in his aptly named presentation, “How I tried for years to find the perfect form for…
German Energy Landscape: Where and How Is Its... →
The German Energy Landscape [geblogs.com], designed by Gregor Aisch, reveals some important facts and statistics about the German energy generation and consumption. Germany is one of…
November 2011
24 posts
Four degrees of separation →
Testing the idea of six degrees of separation, first proposed by Frigyes Karinthy, the Facebook Data Team and researchers at the Università degli Studi di Milano found that most of us…
US road fatalities mapped, 9 years →
For The Guardian, ITO World maps about 370,000 road-related deaths from 2001 through 2009, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. The map is kind of rough around…
138 Years of Popular Science Magazine in a Single... →
Jer Thorp and Mark Hansen recently have published the design process behind a beautiful infographic (yes, they do exist!) titled “138 Years of Popular Science” [blprnt.com], which was…
CNN Ecosphere: 3D Ecosystem Globe Grows on #cop17... →
The goal of CNN’s Ecosphere [cnn-ecosphere.com] by Minivegas and Stinkdigital is a real-time Twitter visualization that aims to reveal how the online discussion is evolving around the…
Mapping One Week of FourSquare Check-Ins →
Some people who work at data-rich companies have the privilege to access some quite revealing datasets. For instance, a few months ago, Matthew Whealy, who works at FourSquare, revealed…
Google Streetview stop motion →
Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins. I’ve watched this multiple times, and can’t get enough. Beautiful and touching. [via]
Dencity: A Map of Global Population Density →
Dencity [fathom.info] by Fathom Information Design shows the distribution of global population density in the world. The map consists of a collection of geo-located circles of varying…
Statisticians and significant digits →
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on significant digits and statisticians’ natural disbelief in numbers. Life is so hard. [Thanks, Michael]
Giant Smiley Feel-o-Meter Reflects the Mood of the... →
Fuehlometer (Feel-o-meter) by Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck, and Benjamin Maus is a light installation consisting of a giant smiley face that reflects the average mood of…
Public opinion of the Occupy movement →
To get a gauge of public opinion and the Occupy movement, The New York Times asked readers what they they thought, placing their comments on a two-axis grid ranging from strongly…
American migration map →
Overhauling his migration map from last year, Jon Bruner uses five year’s worth of IRS data to map county migration in America:
Each move had its own motivations, but in aggregate…
Book: The Art of R Programming →
R, the favorite computing language of a growing number of statisticians, is friendly enough that you can get a lot done without being an expert programmer, because there are a lot of…
Dynamic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an... →
History of the Sky aims to convey the rhythms of the weather, the lengthening and shortening of days, and other atmospheric events on an immediate level. By recording the sky above the …
24 hours of Flickr photos printed to fill a room →
People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and rates don’t give the picture count justice. For the Future of Photography Museum in Amsterdam, Erik Kessels…
Dark Sky: Beautifully Animated Short-Term Weather... →
Jack Turner and Adam Grossman from jackadam have come up with an interesting idea: to create a smart phone app that can accurately predict the likelihood of rain within the next 30…
Time-lapse of Earth from International Space... →
Beautiful time-lapse video using photographs from crew onboard the International Space Station. I think this one’s a hair ahead the Very Large Telescope. Watch in HD on Vimeo for extra…
Opinion Visualization: What People Think about the... →
Public Opinion and the Occupy Movement [nytimes.com] is the newest crowd-sourced opinion visualization from The New York Times, this time about people’s sentiments about the current Occupy…
Visual Résumés →
A couple of infographic résumé sites, vizualize.me and re.vu, sprouted up that use your LinkedIn data to show your career stats. Just create an account, connect it to LinkedIn, and you…
Manual data design from Stefanie Posavec →
Designer Stefanie Posavec talks about her process of data collection, analysis, and design. There’s a lot of advantages to knowing how to program, but there can also be value in…
Comparing Two Music Artists by their Related... →
Last.fm Viz [nextvis.com] is a visual comparison of music artists, which are characterized by social tag data collected from Last.fm in 2007. The visualization contrasts 2 individual…
A month of swearing in 90 seconds →
A fun map by Jamie Popkin of Little Earth that animates the use of the F-bomb, C-word, and “regular swear word” over a month. There isn’t much information about where the data comes…
Best of FlowingData – October 2011 →
Another month, another crazy circular discussion on the chances of answering a question correctly. Thanks again for sharing and tweeting. Always appreciated.
Best statistics question…
7 billion people in the world: past, present and... →
According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over seven billion people in the world. That’s enough people to fill, like, an entire room. Yeah….