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Comprising the talents of Brooklyn-based duo Patrick Mulligan and Ben Gibson, Pop Chart Lab has but one modest goal: to render all of human experience in chart form. From the many varieti... → -
Artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher celebrated a three month trek across Spain by creating a visualization of the journey as a temporary art installation. The resulting circular "... → -
Apparently, describing what Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert is like is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like to a blind person. Tricky. But what does ... → -
Here in the UK it’s Friday afternoon. And for lots of us, that means it’s nearly "beer o’clock". Fed by data from the World Health Organisation, a new online application by Zeno... → -
A nifty web app by The Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) shows Swiss topographical changes over the years from 1844 up to 2012. The map you see in the app is fed by... → -
Shakespeare utilised no fewer than 28,829 different words across his entire works. The brainy git. Intrigued, digital strategist Matt Daniels used token analysis to determine a selection of rappers’ vocabularies and ranked them based on his findings.
Perhaps surprisingly, some artists vocal dexterity exceed the Bard’s legendary lexicon – and one rapper in particular, Aesop Rock, is impressively ahead of the competition. Read more about the project here.
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As well as being the editor of data-driven journalism website, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver is a burrito fan. Big time. Over several years he’s not only been eating and enthusing about th... → -
Here at IIB towers, we spend most of our work-time neck-deep in data. It's what we do. However, thanks to a new PlayStation game, we might well find ourselves immersed in data d... → -
We're opening up the nomination process for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards! Now you can put forward someone else's work you’ve liked via this form and we’ll ask them... → -
All in the glorious pursuit of data visualisations, Nicholas Felton has been noting the minutiae of his daily activities since 2005. Why? In order to create and publish an “annual report” amassing reams of his personal data each year. This week he’s published his 16 page 2013 Annual Report which focuses specifically on his communications data from last year. Congratulations to Olga Bell who gets a mention in the report for using the ‘most consecutive exclamation marks’ in an SMS.
See all 16 pages of Felton's 2013 Annual Report here.
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Two men dressed in shiny boxer shorts pummeling each other until one is victorious is not, usually, a pretty site. However, in this poster – (Irish designer Aiden Grennelle's homage to Sw... →