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What has Trump lied about today, chart edition, Sept 30
Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition.
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What has Trump lied about today, chart edition, Oct 7
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What has Trump lied about in his "apology", chart edition, Oct 8
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Airportraits: composite photos of all the daily takeoffs from the world's...
Artist Mike Kelley creates "Airportraits" of the world's airports by photographing all the planes that take off on a given day, then compositing them together into a kind of time-lapse of a day's...
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ShipMap generates gorgeous maps of global shipping routes
Here's a fun interactive map of global shipping. ShipMap allows users to selected color coding for ship types: container, dry bulk, tanker, gas bulk, and vehicles. It even lets you select animated...
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Visualizing 24 hours of subway activity in New York City
Will Geary created this colorful and soothing data visualization of a day's worth of subway routes around the Big Apple. (more…)
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Quantifying truthfulness in films "based on a true story"
With awards season upon us, lots of films "based on a true story" are in contention. It gives films a little emotional boost to say it really happened, but how much of the film is true? David...
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Automatically generate datasets that teach people how (not) to create...
FJ Anscome's classic, oft-cited 1973 paper "Graphs in Statistical Analysis" showed that very different datasets could produce "the same summary statistics (mean, standard deviation, and correlation)...
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Dataviz ducks: when designers put style ahead of substance
Calling Bullshit (previously) has released a wonderful lecture series on the epidemic of misinformation in today's media landscape. This lecture looks at dataviz ducks, the craptacular USA Today-style...
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Anatomy of the human head in the style of a London tube-map
Jonathan Simmonds, an MD in Boston, MA, created these Map Anatomy illustrations that represent a detailed, functional diagram of the human head's anatomy in the style of a London tubemap; you can buy...
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Data shows bulldogs are by far the most overrated breed
David McCandless meticulously charted dog breeds by six scores: intelligence, costs, longevity, grooming, ailments, and appetite. The big loser: bulldogs. (more…)
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"I Agree": Visualizing terms of service with long scrolls of colored paper
"I Agree" is a Dima Yarovinsky's art installation for Visualizing Knowledge 2018, with printouts of the terms of service for common apps on scrolls of colored paper, creating a bar chart of the fine...
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This alchemist's guide to alcoholic beverages is clever and lovely
Musician Regaip "Rego" Alp Sen created this cool and comprehensive alchemist's guide to alcoholic beverages. Colors and sidebars denote pairing combinations. (more…)
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The Handbook of Tyranny: stark infographics on human cruelty
Handbook of Tyranny tells the story of human cruelty in a series of beautifully designed inforgraphics, like this chart showing methods of crowd control. (more…)
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How brain imaging is getting a boost from video game engines
Unity 3D game-engine lies at the heart of Glass Brain, data visualization of real-time brain function. (more…)
View ArticleThe promise and peril of "sonification": giving feedback through sound
The majority of applications use "visualization" to give feedback and responses to users: think of graphs, alerts, and other visual cues about what is going on inside a computer, or what the computer...
View ArticleShow Your Stripes: visualizing climate change in your location by displaying...
Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist, created Show Your Stripes as a way to easily visualize the past century's climate change: give it a location and it will render a series of stripes representing a...
View ArticleUsing university syllabi to map the connections between every scholarly and...
Joe Karganis writes, "This is the 'Co-Assignment Galaxy' created by David McClure. It maps the top 160K titles in the new Open Syllabus 2.0 dataset, based on the frequency with which those texts are...
View ArticleA free/open tool for making XKCD-style "hand-drawn" charts
Tim Qian, a "full stack developer and open source activist," has published chart.xkcd, a free/open tool that lets you create interactive, "hand-drawn" charts in the style of XKCD comics. It's pretty...
View ArticleVisualizing what happens when you shuffle a deck of cards
Nathan Davis writes, "When you shuffle a deck, it rearranges the order of the cards and I got wondering what that looked like. I took a deck of physical cards, wrote 1 through 52 on each one, shuffled...
View ArticleVisualizing herd immunity
The parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are taking a calculated risk; they're weighting whatever doubts they have about the efficacy of vacItcines against their doubts about vaccine safety...
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Father knitted a data viz blanket of his infant's sleep patterns
Seung Lee double knit this blanket based on data about his son's sleep patterns during his first year of life. "Each stitch represents 6 minutes of time spent awake or asleep," Lee tweeted. The...
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Interactive dataviz showing how dog breeds are related
Scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute in the US recently analyzed the DNA from 161 dog breeds to map out how they're all related. The Guardian took that data set and created a fun...
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Wooden sculptures showing solar dataviz for your location
Using the Python library Pysholar and some Javascript, John Kuiphoff wrote code that takes GPS coordinates, finds the amount of sunlight that falls all day long there, and turns it into 24 shapes —...
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Web tool that generates flowcharts from text
Behold flowchart.fun, a little web tool that generates a quick-and-dirty flowchart from text. You type in words; they appear in a flowchart box. To make a new box with a pointer going towards it, you...
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Adorable animations visualize the "Invisible Roommates" that share your WiFi
I'm a big fan of Nicole He's creative technology work, which often uses whimsy to illuminate our relationships with technology and privacy. Her latest project, Invisible Roommates, is no exception....
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Someone made a map of every Internet-connected cable under water
This globe was created by Tyler Morgan-Wall using GeoJSON, an open source format for visualizing geographic features, using data from the Submarine Cable Map. New #dataviz! The Earth's submarine fiber...
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Famous paintings rendered as Minecraft-like 3D terrain
The Italian creative studio Invasione Creativa took a bunch of famous paintings and used voxelizing techniques to transform them into chunkily-pixeled relief-maps. The Mona Lisa, in that video above,...
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Low earth orbit visualization tool
This low earth orbit visualization tool allows users to see satellites all over the world. You can click on a satellite to see details about it, or you can perform a search using specific filters....
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View boats all over the world on Marine Traffic
Ahoy! On Marine Traffic, you can view boats all over the seven seas in real-time. Click on one of the icons to learn more about what type of vessel you're viewing, where it's heading, how fast it's...
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