Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field. It stirred quite a...
TwoTone lets you turn data into sound and music. It uses the process of sonification to let you hear data. It’s free and open-source and runs 100% on the web, so you don’t need to download...
PhoenixMap, a visual analytics system to help analysts understand spatiotemporal distribution patterns and anomalies of many objects. It focuses on solving quantitatively visualizing the spatial...
The project is a network visualization of my Facebook friends – each one of the 2300 friends is represented as a node with size proportional to the number of messages exchanged between me and them....
Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...
VR-Viz provides high-level react components to generate 3D visualization in webVR. It also gives a framework which follows a layered approach to describe and construct visualizations in a...
A video of an interactive visualisation that demonstrates how colour (green, white and grey) is used to display associations, and dissociations, in data. This is fun way of educating people in how...
My paper 'Information on different types of people for graphic communication, website and information designers' has been published on the Usability Geek website...
Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...
A common business question is "How does the percent of total for a category change over time?" Some ways that are typically used to visualize this data include a stacked area chart, stacked bar...
It’s hard to find the most appropriate visualization method. But the basic journalistic questions and the structure of your data-set already define your visualization. The Infographic Taxonomy...
Explore this interactive visualization about the world of visualization itself - see charts, books, and tools arranged by popularity and trends in this collaboration between Google News Lab and...
Webeyez product oversees the front-end performance of your eComm website. It helps your tech team to identify, analyse and evaluate technical issues in comparison to your competitors....
Scalable Insets is a new technique for interactively exploring and navigating large numbers of annotated patterns or features in multiscale visualizations such as gigapixel images, matrices, or...
As the first mathematical monograph in ancient China, Jiuzhang Suanshu is the most important part of the ten books of Suanjing, and also the symbol of the formation of a complete system of ancient...
Market Cafe Magazine is the world's first magazine about data visualization founded in 2017 by information designers Tiziana Alocci and Piero Zagami.
Reading Market Cafe Magazine you will hear...
As a job-seeker in the budding field of data visualization, it can be difficult to know which role and organization would best fit your needs. Maybe you're an engineer who wants to also dabble in...
In an attempt to feel a connection to my fellow female information designers, I visualized the 142 women who responded to Elijah Meeks' data visualization practitioner survey. It shows the...
Iron Quest is a community-led data visualisation project which follows a similar format to the Tableau Iron Viz feeder competitions. Each month, a topic is selected and participants are required to...
Hard-earned lessons from our notebook about information design and infographics. Hands-on, honest and condensed.
We’ve been working in the field of infographics and visual information for...
This fast-paced, data visualization-themed game consists of 31 cards with 6 chart icons on each. There is one and exactly one identical chart icon on any two cards. It’s up to you to find the...
Statistical fallacies are common tricks data can play on you, which lead to mistakes in data interpretation and analysis. Explore some common fallacies, with real-life examples, and find out how...
Charticulator is an interactive authoring tool that enables the creation of bespoke and reusable chart layouts. Charticulator transforms a chart specification into mathematical layout constraints...
Discover images with data visualization.
You may or may not know of Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely useable images.
Here, on viz.photos you can discover Unsplash’s images in a...
The Data Visualization Society fosters a community where every member benefits from resources that support growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of expertise...
The ‘data-to-viz’ project aims to guide anyone to the most appropriate graphic representation for their given dataset.
To do so, major chart types have been classified based on input data...
The Infographic wheel is a handheld design tool - also known as a volvelle - that helps a user select an infographic layout based on the characteristics of their data. Many professionals who work...
This website allows you to take any picture and split it into thousands particles. The particles are arranged according to color intensities into a histogram.
INFO WE TRUST shows you how to make information people can believe in. I wrote it for everyone who not only wants to understand and see things better, but also wants to help other people see things...