The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2014
It’s always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. I mean, it’s a challenge to pick and rank your favorite anything really. So much depends on what you feel like at the time, and there’s a lot of good work out there. Nevertheless, I gave it a go. These are my favorites for the year, roughly in order of favorite on down and based on use of data, design, and being useful. Mostly though, m
How to Make an Interactive Network Visualization
Interactive network visualizations make it easy to rearrange, filter, and explore your connected data. Learn how to make one using D3 and JavaScript. Networks! They are all around us. The universe is filled with systems and structures that can be organized as networks. Recently, we have seen them used to convict criminals, visualize friendships, and even to describe cereal ingredient combinations.
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, this was the year of big data. Or maybe we’ve gotten better at filtering to the good stuff. (Fancy that.) In any case, data graphics continue to thrive and designers are putting more thought into what the data ar
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 interactive graphics, how I failed, and why, whether a perfect form exists or not, I’ve stopped my desperate pursuit.” He starts with finding a balance between statistical analysis and story, and then finishes with
Bach Cello Suites visualized
As a resident at Eyebeam, Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites: Using the mathematics behind string length and pitch, it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music’s underlying structure and subtle shifts. Interaction version here. Charming.
Language communities of Twitter
Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each color, chosen to make differences more visibly obvious, represents a language. English is represented in dark gray, which is used just about everywhere, so it doesn’t obscure everything else. The emergence of borders without actually drawing them in is interesting. There’s a little bit of blending,
Geography of Wikipedia edits
A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia. Erik Zachte, a data analyst at the Wikimedia Foundation, takes it from the angle of those who are actually editing Wikipedia. The animated map shows edits from a single day (May 10, 2011, to be exact) when there were nearly 370,000 edits from around the world. Watch the edits play out over time (above), or select from a few other
GeoCommons 2.0, now with more mapping features
GeoCommons, an open repository of data and maps, launched version 2.0 this week, which is more feature-rich and robust than the first. Two of the major updates have to do with the fast-changing data landscape: amount of data and browser technology. In this new version, you can load tens of thousands of points no problem, whereas in the previous version, the application grew sluggish. If you’ve use
Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance
We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see them through the spirit of Hungarian folk dance. In a series of four videos (so far), folks at Sapientia University in Romania demonstrate how different sorting algorithms work with numbered people dancing around and arranging themselves from least to greatest. See them in action in the video below. This one is for Bu
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Data and visualization year in review, 2013
State of the OpenStreetMap
The Art of Data Visualization
History of San Francisco street names mapped
Analyzing text messages to save lives
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Find everywhere you can go in 15 minutes or less
Visualize This: eBook formats and sample chapter
Global search volume by language
Seeing the art in cartography
Physically climb over budget data with Kinect