Animated wind maps of the US. Beautiful weather.
Related: NASA animation of ocean currents.
March 29, 2012
March 14, 2012
“Spotlight on movie profitability” - I love this technique for data visualization. It’s rare to see new design structures coming out that are so simple and powerful.
August 22, 2011
August 19, 2011
Trulia’s blog has a great visualization of housing affordability across the US.
July 29, 2011
Scientific evidence for health supplements (I’m taking probiotics, fish oil, and vitamin D - nice to see that they all have some good evidence)
July 19, 2011
Languages of the World (Wide Web) - Google shows the various connections between languages as shown by web site linking. Beyond many expectable regional cultural groupings, there are several fun things to notice:
- The inventor of Esperanto was Polish
- The Armenian diaspora is particularly strong in eastern Europe
- Hungary overcomes its linguistic isolation to stay extrovertedly linky
- There are a lot of Kurds in Sweden (?!)
- Urdu is the one language of India that is far more connected to other languages than to others in India
- Swahili looks like it’s just another language in India (except it also is the only language connected to Tagalog)
- The French have a thing for Dutch girls
Some other interesting but less strong connections show up when they show the pre-normalized graph.
July 10, 2011
February 6, 2011
Maps of US cities labeled by the word that occurs in dating profiles of people in those cities more so than any other city. Organized by state, after clicking on the ‘maps’ link. Bay area copied here for example.
November 12, 2010
October 11, 2010
I collected as much data as I could find today about cat populations in order to show the relative popularity of cats around the world. I was hoping to find data including stray cats, but that pretty much doesn’t exist.
What I take from this is that Germany and Spain are particularly cat-hating europeans, that the United States is aberrantly cat-philic (and are infecting Canada), and that Japan is not nearly as cat loving as I had thought from cats’ presence in their pop culture.
I don’t like the way Google Docs does footnotes in published spreadsheets, but they are all there at the bottom.
No word yet on the cat populations of antarctica or space.
October 4, 2010
April 13, 2010
This is pretty much my life.
Some other xkcd love while I’m at it - fourier transforms, my job, and several fascinating infographics.
April 12, 2010
March 9, 2010
A visualization of colors in flickr photos and how they change through the seasons of a year.
March 4, 2010
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