Archive for the ‘visualization’ tag

Pie Chart Problems #

April 14th, 2009 | In Worth Knowing 

They ask us compare angles, but we tend to underestimate acute angles, overestimate obtuse angles, and take horizontally bisected angles as much larger than their vertical counterparts.

The piece’s thesis: that data visualization cannot save you, is certainly one worth taking to heart.

(via Idea of the Day)

Britain From Above #

August 4th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

A very cool short video from “the Beeb.” My favorite is probably the view of London taxis during a day, but they’re all pretty good visualizations.

(via Gems Sty)

Digg Rings #

June 3rd, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

In today’s “awesome-looking but mostly purposeless charts” category, I submit Chris Harrison’s Digg Rings.

(via Information Aestetics)

Visualizing Flight Patterns #

May 15th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

I linked to a part of Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns project a few weeks ago, without recognizing it as such. Neatorama has compiled some valuable links to his work, and pointed out the awesome video in the title link. Their summary:

In 2005, Aaron Koblin took all of the air traffic over United States data, as seen by the FAA, and visualized it in a beautiful animation. Aaron’s work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the “Celestial Mechanics” project (eye candy!) by Scott Hesels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA.

Visualizing Color Names #

April 25th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

Remember this? Well, people have been working on ways to revisualize the color names that Dolores Lab crowd-sourced. Color Flower is my favorite, but the others are nice too.