I’ve been drawn to Maya Lin and her work since I first saw it as a kid. She leaves incredible marks on this world. Ranging from room-sized installations evoking mountainous topography to delicate wall installations of silver pins tracing the … Continue reading
This satellite map of America’s forests, built from 265 million segments and intended to be a tool for understanding exactly how much carbon our trees can absorb. It’s our infographic of the day, but it’s also a story about the … Continue reading
Nice visualization from the LA Times which allows you to view public sentiment about Oscar nominated movies based on Tweets over time. “The Oscar Senti-meter is a tool developed by the L.A. Times, IBM and the University of Southern California … Continue reading
Lucas Timmons, Data journalist and news hacker, put out this great piece on mapping a dozen years of homicides in Edmonton. What I love about this article is that Timmons details his basic methodology of working from raw data to … Continue reading
Did you ever have a brainstorming session where you are like, WTF? David McCandless (of Information is Beautiful and TED fame) presents us with a handy dandy method of charting the functional vs. dysfunctional, levels of conceptual structure and is … Continue reading
I found this overview of visualization techniques to be very helpful when I first started looking at tools and examples of data visualization. Heer, Bostock and Ogievetsky present around 2 dozen descriptions and images of charts, graphs, examples. The whole … Continue reading
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TechCrunch has an article up about Lucky Sort. The Portland startup led by Noah Pepper just secured half a million to create a data visualization tool for Web and mobile. Congratulations! I can’t wait to see it. via Lucky Sort … Continue reading
I like that The Economist gives a high-level visual overview of topics that are receiving the most attention online in the comments area. Some folks have indicated that they think word clouds are a bit tired and first decade, but … Continue reading
Wow. Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus built the little slice of awesome documented at http://fühlometer.de/. From their website: “The project Stimmungsgasometer is about a smiley on a huge screen from which one can read the average mood … Continue reading
Article by John Pavlus: “Infographic thinking” doesn’t let designers to interpret a narrative visually; it lets them invite the viewer [to] join in the process of interpretation, too. It’s what makes infographic design a language, not a formula or a … Continue reading
