What’s the story? After the Civil War, the US doubled down on the Census, cranking out stunning maps, charts, and graphs. About what? Literally everything. Liquor, lumber, Methodists, malaria, insanity, Irishmen: everything! via A Handsome Atlas: Wildly Awesome Data Visualizations … Continue reading
Better World Flux – where progress flows. “In essence the Flux is a glorified histogram. It displays a snapshot of the world state for a given year; green being good and red being bad. Within each colour of the Flux … 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
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
Check out the videos from the 2011 Eyeo Festival. There are some great talks about data visualization from Ben Fry, Casey Reas, Jer Thorp, Golan Levin, Aaron Koblin and more. Jer Thorp – Eyeo Festival 2011 from Eyeo Festival … Continue reading
Google’s Solve for X website is a great inspiration. Come to this site for videos by Neal Stephenson, Nicholas Negroponte, Michael Crow and Mir Imran. Solve for X is a place to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving … Continue reading
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Cabinet Magazine published a great timelines of timelines way back in 2004 in their “Histories of the Future” issue. Sasha Archibald and Daniel Rosenberg take us through a calender-ical romp from José ben Halafta calculations on the relative scale of historical … Continue reading
