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…