Aug 29
How far away is your nearest grocery store? If you live out west, probably much further than the rest of the country, as shown by this visualization of America’s "food deserts," where the closest grocery is miles away.
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Aug 21
If you were to re-draw the map of the world according to each countries population, you would get a warped world that looked like this. Some giant countries like Canada and Australia become tiny strips and dots while other giant countries like China and India predictably inflate and take over the map. You can also see how crowded some countries are, Japan is bigger than Mexico! But at least all these countries made it on the map, Iceland and Belize didn’t even have enough people to show up.
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Aug 13
The International Space Station orbits the Earth at 8 kilometers per second—but it’s tough to visualize just how fast that is. When you think about it in terms of how far the thing moves during the course of a song you know, though, you’ll be shocked.
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Aug 13
This map is covered in dots. In fact, there are 308,745,538 of the little things—each one representing a single individual living in the US, and its color indicating ethnicity.
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Aug 08
Many comics aren’t worth reading. Many infographics don’t say anything at all. But when one of the keenest visual minds targets one of the most expansive visual mediums, wonderful things happen. Tim Leong’s Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe is the perfect collision. And I want it.
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Aug 07
Where tectonic plates meet, there’s trouble—we all know that from grade school—but you might not realise just how much movement they cause when earthquakes aren’t happening. This GIF shows in centimeter accuracy just how dramatic their effects can be.
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Jul 25
Some players score, other set up—that’s just the way it is. This data visualization takes that idea and runs with it, churning through three seasons-worth of data to anaylze where Premier League soccer assists originate from.
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Jul 22
It sometimes feels like there’s a big data breach in the news every week—but some are far worse than others. This data visulization shows the world’s biggest data breaches to date, and how they compare over time.
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Jul 18
We’re wasteful people. Maybe not you and maybe not me but definitely "we". Some of us try to live as consciously as possible but it hardly matters when the rest of us are inconsiderate and lazy. The United States wastes about $165 billion in food every year. Half of the food produced in the US is wasted between the farm and the fork! This video reveals the numbers behind the food we waste. It’s pretty rough and it doesn’t get much better. [Visual.ly via FoodBeast]
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Jul 18
What’s the oldest tree on Earth? What’s a rainbow? Is the Earth wobbling? It’s fun to ask these questions but trickier to answer them—in simple terms, at least. Luckily, Viennese designer Michæl Paukner has done us all a huge favor by creating these lovely visual explanations.
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