As cities grow and populations expand, people move further and further away from the center. That’s definitely happened in New York—and this visualization shows how the shift to more distant neighbourhoods affects travel time.
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This might look like your car’s speedometer, but it is in fact a clever visualization of photographs taken during Hurricane Sandy last year.
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Movies exist in their own world, with their own rules, with the characters having their own relationships. And though we may know every one of those characters, they might not all be connected together. These visualizations show how characters connect with each other in a beautiful constellation. You can almost gauge a movie by how its characters connect.
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Twitter never tires of finding clever new ways to show off its mountains of tweets, it’s going literal with actual mountains of tweets. Twitter’s in-house data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte put together these new, interactive, topographical maps of tweet history, and the result is a digital mountain range like you’ve never seen.
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This gorgeous map by Nelson Minar shows every single river in the United States. Look how many veins America has!
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A quick tweet can blast through Twitter like wildfire. All it takes is a click of a button and anyone can help push that 140 character shout just a little further through cyberspace, until everybody knows. This is what it looks like when that happens. More »
Foursquare just launched a neat new tool that allows you to view the last year of your life in Foursquare check-ins. Don’t worry! It’s more than a depressingly reductive view of your life as the summation of activities on a social network. It’s actually really cool. More »
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Basketball is a complicated sport. It’s got fewer traditional positions than any other team sport, but no less specialization, and far more fluid movement than many others. Two “point guards” can play drastically differently and still play the same basic position. Muthu Alagappan’s research makes some sense of that. More »
Like it or not, Facebook is a pretty good barometer if what people like. So it’s fun when it gathers up its considerable data troves and spits out maps of stuff we like. Today it broke down the fans of teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. More »
Here’s one for the morbid amongst you: this visualization reveals how everyone across the world died during the entire 20th century. It make for interesting—and surprising—reading. More »
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