data viz
See The World Cup As 3D-Printed Statistics
Interaction designer Brendan Oliver wrote an algorithm that visualizes the highs and lows of soccer matches as mountainous 3D data maps.
A Robot That Puts Pie Charts Onto Actual Pies
At The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Annina Rüst's "A Piece Of The Pie Chart" offers a sweet take on contemporary feminist protest.
The YouTube Of Data Viz Feeds You The Web's Best Infographics
From human-to-chicken ratios, to income stats, 'Dadaviz' might become the Internet's top spot for awesome infographics.
I Became An Algorithm At The Museum Of Modern Art
MoMA's "Archives As Instigator" workshop taught me that like every internet user alive, witting or unwitting, I am the curator of my own digital museum.
Watch 2,600 Years Of Culture Grow And Die
This five minute video visualizes the birthplaces and death spots of important culture figures from 600BC to 2012.
Error-Ridden Data Visualizations Become Beautiful Accidental Art
With Tumblr Accidental aRt, we've learned that data viz gone wrong can look like chic modern art.
Ok, Now We Really Know Who Has The Largest Vocabulary In Hip-Hop
Matt Daniels updated his data viz project that tracked which rapper has the most unique bars. (Spoiler: it's not Rick Ross)
This US Budget Visualization Tool Unveils the Government's Inner Workings
Learn facts like how the US spends more money on defense now than during the peak of the Cold War.
Drafting the NBA: This Guy Built the Basketball Nerd's Infographic Wet Dream
We can record and store information about almost everything; mastery is a question of presenting it in a way that makes sense. The new gatekeeper is the graphmaker.
Create Awesome Typographic Visualizations Of YouTube Videos
Sosolimited's Semantic Sabotage lets you remix a YouTube transcript into real-time visuals in a variety of fun styles.
This Waltz-y Data Visualization Will Help Kill the Spread of the Flu
The modeled ebb and flow, uncannily synced to Blue Danube's waltz and simulated to predict flu virus transmission rates, is remarkably swarm-like in its sheer randomness.