Towards a Low-carbon World

March 20, 2012 – 6:05 pm

Carbon output. We want to reduce it, but some countries have a longer way to go than others. Pitch Interactive shows progress (or - more -

Evolution of the Hawaiian Star, 1893 to 1912

March 20, 2012 – 7:47 am

UC San Diego student Cyrus Kiani animates 5,930 front pages from The Hawaiian Star, from 1893 to 1912. Pretty much everything on the page gets bigger — the columns, headers, and pictures - more -

Live Coding Implemented

March 19, 2012 – 6:52 pm

Remember Bret Victor's live coding talk from last month? He presented an example where he would edit code on one side, and the corresponding - more -

Visualizing the History of Everything

March 19, 2012 – 7:33 am

Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as biology, natural history, and economics to form a single timeline that - more -

March Madness power rankings

March 16, 2012 – 7:03 pm

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in full force. This one by Angi Chau, shows - more -

History told with Oreo cookies

March 16, 2012 – 7:29 am

Celebrating their 100th birthday, Oreo depicts moments in history with the ever popular cookie of nostalgia and milk dunking. This one showing the first - more -

New iPad battery size is huge

March 16, 2012 – 7:14 am

From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of the iPad 2. The battery in the former is - more -

Members Only: Calendar Heatmaps to Visualize Time Series Data

March 15, 2012 – 5:18 pm

The familiar but underused layout is a good way to look at patterns over time. This tutorial gives you an easy way to make them and guides you through the code so you - more -

Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot

March 15, 2012 – 8:55 am

At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your standard county-level choropleth map of demographics. Select a self-described - more -

Personal map of 2.5m GPS data points, 3.5 years in the making

March 14, 2012 – 9:19 am

Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform Geoloqi, has collected his location every few seconds for over three years. He put his - more -