Old Is The New New

Old Is The New New

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Entries Tagged as 'Visualization'

Crouching Data, Hidden Patterns

December 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Flowing Data ranks the year’s Best Data Visualizations; two of five come from my visualization crush Amanda Cox.

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Tags: Asides · Visualization

The Atlas of True Names

December 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Every country on earth is transformed into a D&D campaign just by translating all the place names.

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Tags: Eye Candy · Visualization

Old Weird Google Map

August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Celestial Monochord goo-maps the Anthology of American Folk Music. What part of that sentence isn’t awesome? (See also.)

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Tags: Asides · Old Weird America · Travel · Visualization

City of Shadows

June 15th, 2008 · Comments Off

Long-exposure photographs of St. Petersburg turn the bustle of urban crowds into beautiful shoggoths of human smoke.

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Tags: Asides · Eye Candy · Russia is Neat · Visualization

Shan Carter and Amanda Cox Have A Posse

June 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Another swell interactive graphic from the people who did the box office one, this time showing demographic margins for Clinton and Obama.

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Tags: Asides · Visualization

Long Tails and Fat Butts

May 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I am enraptured with this graphic showing box office receipts from 1986 to 2008.

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Tags: Found History · Teaching · Visualization