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...
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...
My paper 'Information on different types of people for graphic communication, website and information designers' has been published on the Usability Geek website...
Exploration of the shape of hashtag conversations at Tableau's 2017 conference. The sonar chart type of each hashtag shows how the conversation evolved in each hour that someone tweeted about it,...
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...
INFO.GRAPHICS is a new website dedicated to data vis and data-driven storytelling. From deep-dives into historical events to analysis of what numbers really mean, INFO.GRAPHICS curates stories to...
Flowmap.blue is a free and open source flow map visualization tool. It is designed for representing aggregated numbers of movements between geographic locations. People from different parts of the...
Hibiol visualizes your browsing history in your browser's new tab page. A timeline displays information for today and a day within the past week. For both days, the 3 websites you spend the most...
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...
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...
How can a conference facilitate the development of meaningful connections, both between and among the audience, the speakers, and their topics? Rather than assigning a specific time and place for...
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...
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...
Diagrammm: Beyond the Image
Data visualization has become a modern tool of communication that reveals a power of data. With it help stories hidden in figures could be told in a clear and...
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 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...
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...
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.
This plot is similar to a scatterplot, which is used to understand the relationship between two continuous measures. However, a change plot represents the current values on the x-axis and the...
Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists.
Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...
Dataglitches is a collection of examples, drafts and mistakes created while designing data visualisations. It started as a tribute to the unexpected beauty coming out of data and information...
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...
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...
MorphCharts are composed of one or more related visualizations from a dataset, which smoothly transition between views. These transitions allow a user to maintain context while exploring multiple...
The Veins of leaves, the wings of a dragonfly, giraffe body texture, land cracked cracks, honeycomb shape, all have the same unique mesh structure. The most accurate words to describe this...
kepler.gl is a data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data sets. Built on top of deck.gl, kepler.gl can render millions of points...
“Data” has penetrated into every industry and business function area today and has become an important production factor. And we can easily find that in this era of big data, no matter what we want...
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...
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...