- How Many Times Has Dr Who Travelled In Time?
Every single Dr Who journey ever. Crowdsourced ultra-geek dataset for The Guardian.
- Pseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water. (Hmmm, this needs a bit of design IMHO. I might have a chop at it) Research and visualisation by Dr Phil Howard of Michigan State University. He’s done some other, great visual explorations of key industries including organic food and seeds.
- Wikipedia?s Lamest Edit Wars
Articles of War source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars data: http://bit.ly/WikiLame Research & design: David McCandless Additional research: James Key Additional design: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
- Hacking India Is Beautiful
This week, I was lucky enough to accompany UK Prime Minister’s delegation to India as part of contingent of ‘hackers’ and civic-minded dataheads. We did a hack day with some of India’s leading developers and visualizers. Check out their great, ingenious work in this post for The Guardian. Here’s the full bus-heatmap mentioned in the [...]
- Cognitive Surplus visualized
I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed. He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it. Shocking proportion. Interestingly, when I sketched the diagram, my imagination [...]
- The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009
The Billion Dollar-O-Gram 2009. The latest version of our fabled treemap of billion dollar amounts. All the data and more billion dollar amounts: http://bit.ly/bndollar A little context This image arose out of frustration with media reporting of billion dollar amounts. That is, that they’re meaningless without context. But they’re continually reported as self-evident facts. 500 [...]
- Great Visualizers: Always With Honor
Design duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves are Always With Honor, an Portland-based design team with a specialty in beautifully simple information displays and iconography. I first got turned on to / by their work when I spotted this awesome poster. It visualizes the many domains within design. Somewhat awesomely. (Here’s a link to a [...]
- Live-Vizzing The Emergency Budget
“Live-vizzing” a graphic on the UK government’s emergency budget for The Guardian and Open Knowledge Foundation.
- Four Great Infographics No. 8
So much great work out there at the moment, I wanted to share it with y’all. Sekret Firmy Magazine Russian infography seems to be on the rise. Here are some great visuals from a publication apparently called ?Sekret Firmy Magazine?. No idea what it?s about. But my eyes just don?t seem to care. Update: Secret [...]
- In Deeper Water
Depressing update of our original DeepWater Horizon image. The oil spill is now on track to be the 3rd worst in history, depositing the equivalent of 22,000 cars worth of oil into the sea every day. The NYTimes have done a much better interactive graphic The Oil Spill superimposed on your home More info and [...]
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