Visualization projects
collections
- http://richworks.in/2010/04/50-most-stunning-examples-of-data-visualization-and-infographics/
- http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/
- http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-visualizations-of-2011/
- http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/Visualizations/ - visualization projects on wikipedia.
- Information is Beautiful data visualisation and infographic awards: the winners gallery - 20120927
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/multimedia/2012-the-year-in-graphics.html - NYT 2012 visualization highlights.
- http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/05/best-of-the-visualisation-web-april-2013/
- http://mashable.com/2013/03/05/data-visualization-projects/
“Direct” visualization
Sometimes, especially when there are lots of data points, just plotting the data directly is enough.
- http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/tweetmap/ - tweets
- https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919 - friendship between locations
- http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html - racial dotmap
- https://www.shipmap.org/
- http://www.robertmanduca.com/projects/jobs.html - job dotmap
- http://fathom.info/allstreets - all streets
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonminar/8747607969/lightbox/ - river
Bad examples
- Fox News Might Want To Revise Its Laughably Bad Obamacare Graphic
- This Chart Shows An Alarming Rise In Florida Gun Deaths After ‘Stand Your Ground’ Was Enacted
- How to Lie with Data Visualization
Society
- http://oecdbetterlifeindex.org
- A Visual HDI by César A
- Nightingale’s rose
- 10 GRAPHS THAT PROVE THE UNITED STATES IS A LOWTAX COUNTRY
- http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/
- THE YEAR IN DATA
- NYT:Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
- NYT:Mapping the Nation’s Well-Being
- http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-can-visualization-help-citizens-use.html
- NYT: budget proposal
- Drone war: every attack in Pakistan visualised
- Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook
- INEQUALITY AND NEW YORK’S SUBWAY
- Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America | Planet Money
- Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists?
- Children paying a terrible price in Gaza
- 40 Maps They Didn’t Teach You In School
- A Day in the Life of Americans
Health
- NYT: Ebola facts
- NYT: Omicron peak spiral - This visualization sparked a lot of reaction with many reworks
- https://twitter.com/soustha/status/1479588387556249609 - Using line + dot
- https://twitter.com/Wattenberger/status/1479276091751768065 - adding colors to represent the intensity.
Politics
Geography
- US rivers
- Buildings in Netherlands by the year of construction
- Foursquare check-ins show the pulse of cities
- True size of Africa
Earthquakes
Weather
- http://hint.fm/wind/
- http://hint.fm/wind/gallery/
- http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/06/tornado-tracking-visualization.html - tornadoes
- http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/08/hurricanes-since-1851.html - hurricanes
- http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/WeatherAndMeteorology.html - wolfram alpha
- US Daily temp anomalies
- Misery index - wind, chill & heat index
Movies
Fashion
- Front Row to Fashion Week - a similar idea to movie barcode.
Economy
- Visualizing Ocean Shipping
- Wealth Inequality in America
- The Crisis of Credit Visualized
- Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
- How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts
- EconGraphs
Environment
- http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
- http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/drought/
Quantified self
Religion
Sports
- http://kottke.org/13/04/gif-of-yu-darvishs-consistent-delivery
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http://kottke.org/13/05/miguel-cabreras-fantastic-plate-coverage
- Stephen Curry Is The Revolution
