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Cognitive Bias Parade: CC-licensed collage illustrations of predictable...
James Gill writes, "Cognitive Bias Parade is a site that takes a daily look at deviations in judgement and reconstructed realities. It is an illustrated review of the many ways the brain has evolved...
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Distribution of letters in parts of English words
Prooffreader graphed the distribution of letters towards the beginning, middle and end of English words, using a variety of corpora, finding both some obvious truths and some surprising ones. As soon...
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Who is Gamergate? Analysis of 316K tweets
Waxy took a deep three-day sample of #Gamergate-tagged tweets and did some great analysis to uncover the composition and patterns of participants on both sides of the debate. (more…)
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The rise and fall of American Hallowe'en costumes
A clever, interactive chart from NPR's Planet Money tracks the relative popularity of different American Hallowe'en costumes over the past five years. Zombies Are Hot, But Clowns Are Not [Planet...
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Beautiful, easy animations of equations
Max writes, "I made a small 'web-thing' that renders a 100x100 square of colored pixels based on an equation input by the user. You can use it to explore mathematics, or just enjoy the pretty colors....
View ArticleInteractive tour of nuclear arsenals since WWII
Explore how many nukes there are in the world, and where they are, courtesy of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' interactive Nuclear Notebook -- a useful way to discover whether some friendly...
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Social graph of mysterious twitterbots
Terence Eden has mined the social graphs of thousands of mysterious, spammy twitterbots, which may or may not be the same larval spambots I wrote about. (more…)
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VISUALIZE: Daily routines of accomplished creative people
This chart summarizes data from Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, providing that rarest of treasures: an infographic that actually improves the legibility of information. (more…)
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Uncovering sexual preferences by data-mining sex-toy sales [NSFW]
UK sex-toy retailer Lovehoney allowed researcher Jon Millward to data-mine its huge database of over 1,000,000 sex-toy purchases and 45,000 reviews, in order to see what he could infer about Britons'...
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
The most common way of representing Africa on maps and globes dramatically understates the size of the continent. (more…)
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Hey, kids, let's play Corporate Monopoly!
Global Justice Now's "Corporate Monopoly" is an excellent piece of information design; it's a playable boardgame adapted from Monopoly (itself originally designed to teach the evils of capitalism), in...
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Sometimes, starting the Y-axis at zero is the BEST way to lie with statistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14VYnFhBKcY If you've read Darell Huff's seminal 1954 book How to Lie With Statistics, you've learned an important rule of thumb: any chart whose Y-axis doesn't start at...
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Survey results from Cards Against Humanity's Hannukah Gifts package
People who bought Cards Against Humanity's Eight Sensible Gifts for Hannukah subscription were invited to take a survey at the end of the purchase, one that asked all kinds of weird, invasive...
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Elegance, illustrated: heliocentrism vs geocentrism
In a gorgeous animation, Malin Christersson shows how much simpler it is to plot out celestial mechanics when you assume that all the bodies in our solar system are in orbit around the sun, rather...
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Spectographic analysis of a modem handshake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c A lovely piece of nostalgic datadiz: the squeals and chirps, converted to a stream of glowing pixels. (more…)
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Virus trading cards, animated and 3D-printable
Eleanor Lutz used files from the Protein Data Bank to model the molecules comprising the viruses that are the scourge of our human race. (more…)
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Chicago Police Accountability Task Force Report: racism, corruption, and a...
Chicago's Police Department are notorious: the force maintains a "black site" where prisoners are secretly held under fake names and tortured, uses political shenanigans to suppress information about...
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WEB Du Bois's infographics on black life, from the 1900 Exposition Universelle
Activist/sociologist WEB Du Bois compiled a beautiful set of infographics on the state of black life since the end of slavery that were displayed at the "Exhibit of American Negroes" he created with...
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Geographically representative map of the London Underground
The Transport for London tube map, building on Harry Beck's pioneering work in 1931, is rightly hailed as a masterpiece of simplification and clarity in data visualisation. (more…)
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What has Trump lied about today, chart edition, Sept 21
Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition.
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