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Visualization of the Week: The history of shipping routes
Last week’s featured visualization mapped the geographic background and intended destination of the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. This week’s visualization also examines oceanic travel, but of a...
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Visualization of the Week: The living city
This week’s visualization comes from Interactive Things, a design and technology studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company has been working on a project called “Ville Vivante” — the living city....
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Visualization of the Week: The origins of English
Mike Kinde, writer for the site Ideas Illustrated, has created a project that visualizes the etymology of the English words used in various passages — a sports article, a medical article, a United...
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Visualization of the Week: Avengers Assemble
Marvel’s “The Avengers” opened in U.S. theaters last weekend, claiming the largest weekend opening so far this year and setting a new three-day domestic box office record. The film features a superhero...
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Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolism
This week’s visualization comes from PhD candidates David Quinn and Daniel Wiesmann, who’ve built an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore the “urban metabolism” of major U.S. cities. The...
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Visualization of the Week: 30 years of tech IPOs
This week’s visualization comes from The New York Times, which tries to shed a little light on Facebook’s initial public offering by showing how it compares to the 2,400 technology IPOs that have...
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Visualization of the Week: 56 years of tornadoes
This week’s visualization comes from John Nelson of IDV Solutions, who has taken data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to map tornado paths and F-Scale frequencies....
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Visualization of the Week: Global BitTorrent usage
This week’s visualization comes from BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based company responsible for the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent’s visualization is a time-lapsed movie with some 60...
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Visualization of the Week: A whole new way to look at the NBA Finals
Sports and data go together like defense and championships and hot dogs and baseball and cliches and sports references. Yet, many of the visualizations of all that great data tend to be on the dry side...
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Visualization of the Week: The story behind the U.S. power grid
Visualizations and promo videos from the PBS series “America Revealed” were passed around this week, and it’s easy to see why they caught on. Maps like these are fascinating. Those pictures are...
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Visualization of the Week: Sequester cuts by state
The sequester went into effect in the U.S. on Friday, and media outlets are busy fleshing out practical consequences and looking for solutions. Ryan Murphy at The Texas Tribune dug into the state-level...
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Visualization of the Week: Tweet connections between Twitter employees
Designer Santiago Ortiz is developing a browser-based networks visualization platform called Newk. He took the platform for a spin and visualized the network of Twitter conversations between Twitter...
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Visualization of the Week: The USDA’s Food Access Research Atlas
The USDA has put together a new interactive Food Access Research Atlas to help locate “food deserts,” or places where people have limited access to grocery stores and other sources of healthy and...
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Visualization of the Week: MOOC completion rates
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered through platforms such as Coursera, EdX and Udacity, are arguably helping to fill higher education needs around the world. Educational researcher Katy...
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Visualization of the Week: Block-level electricity use in Los Angeles
California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) researcher Jacki Murdock, along with advisor Yoh Kawano, GIS Coordinator at the Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA, has developed...
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Visualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011
The recent terror attack at the Boston Marathon prompted the Guardian’s Simon Rogers (who will soon be Twitter’s Simon Rogers) to look into the history of attacks on U.S. soil. Using data from the...
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Visualization of the Week: A DDoS attack on VideoLAN downloads infrastructure
In the wake of a recent DDoS attack on open source software distributor VideoLAN, developer Ludovic Fauvet created a video visualization to show what the attack looked like. As Ryan W. Neal notes in a...
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Visualization of the Week: Building collapse rescue efforts
In the wake of recent building collapses, the BBC addressed the question of what goes into the rescue efforts by creating an interactive guide outlining how rescuers approach a collapsed building....
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Visualization of the Week: Hospital procedure charges across the U.S., compared
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released procedure billing data on more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals. The New York Times and The Washington Post have put together interactive visualizations...
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Visualization of the Week: Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”
Stephen Malinowski’s hypnotic music visualizations have been quite a hit on YouTube — he has visualized a number of scores, from Debussy’s, Clair de lune to Chopin’s Nocturne in B Major, opus 32 no.1...
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