data visualization
Immerse Yourself in a Miniature Circuitboard Metropolis
If a cities could have avatars, they might look like Stanza's new installation, 'The Nemesis Machine.'
Visualizing Fukushima's Landscape of Radiation
Chris Cheung's haunting audiovisual journey, 'RadianceScape' compares radiation levels in Hong Kong to those of Fukushima.
Inside 'Dear Data,' A Year-Long Experiment in Visualizing Daily Life
From New York to London and back, Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec send each other weekly drawings of everyday data.
The Geiger Counter Chandelier Is a Dark Data Visualizer
Four years after the Fukushima disaster, Phillip Stearns' 'A Chandelier for One of Many Possible Ends,' makes us painfully aware of radiation.
Jeopardy! Data Viz Helps You Find the Daily Double
In one graph, Flowing Data breaks down your chances of betting it all on national television.
Tokyo Transit Looks Like Light Art in This 3D Visualizer
Watch Japan's metro system pulse and glow in real time WebGL experience 'Metrogram3d.'
100 Years of Earthquake Data Becomes an 8-Day-Long Orchestral Arrangement
David Johnson created a program that built an orchestra composition from a century of seismic waves.
Intricate Agates Are Nature's Data Viz
These gorgeous linear patterns are encoded records of a changing Earth.
Surveillance, Gamergate, and the Artistic Difficulty of Making the Internet Real
In "Shellshock," artist Addie Wagenknecht creates a wonderfully satirical and mesmerizing altar to the Information Age.
Take A Look Inside The Infographic Mega-Tome, "Knowledge Is Beautiful"
Information designer David McCandless's book "Knowledge is Beautiful" features infographics of everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask (because there were too many numbers involved).
Emotional Tweets Make This Sculpture Leak Colorful Paint
"MONOLITT" uses a city's social media "sentiment analytics" to literally paint a portrait of the locale's current mood.
Poke-Pie Charts Break Down The Color Palettes Of Your Favorite Pokemon
A redditor algorithmically dissected the color patterns of nearly 500 Pokemon—who would have thought that Ditto is six shades of purple?