Visualization of the Week

Add a visualization you'd like to share with the class.   Be sure to also email me to let me know in advance if possible, or if not, just tell me before the start of class.  

I'll try to show a "Visualization of the Week" each time we have one in a minute or two before the start of class.  If there are multiple ones, we may not have time for each one in that class.    Add yours  AT THE TOP of this page.

Spring 2024

April 1, 2024| Nicole Ann Hargrove

NCAA men's basketball bracket.  This visualization is a good example of being focused on important details.  It shows only the essential information, the team's name and logo, ranking, and game results.  It also does a good job of using a pointer to signal who won.  The play icon is there to let us know that there is a video.  When clicked,  it shows highlights from the game.  I also like the titles at the top as an indicator of the tournament rounds. Clicking the right arrow next to the round name gives me a feeling of flow.  It is clear and easy to understand the competing teams and their paths through the tournament.  

February 26, 2024 | Khawar Latif Khan

A Root-Shaped Recovery | The Indian Express – Accessed via Twitter

This visualization is from the print version of The Indian Express. The visualization is telling the story of Day 1 of a cricket test match between India and England. The English cricket team lost 3 early wickets and then recovered from the early losses. The entire visualization takes the shape of a square root. The smartest thing here is the choice of the shape (square root), as the batter who played a key role in the recovery is named Joe Root.  

February 26, 2024 | Khawar Latif Khan

TED Talk | How we can find ourselves in data by Giorgia Lupi

I came across this interesting TED Talk about data, data humanism, and some really unique visualizations.

February 19, 2024 | Khawar Latif Khan

Air Quality Index of Lahore, Pakistan in 2022: This visualization is designed as a digital flipbook where an important landmark of Lahore is shown in different months of the year 2022. The visibility varies as the AQI – and the smog situation – changes in the city.

• Digital Flipbook showing Lahore's AQI in 2022

• The entire project | Breathtaking by Muhammad Tayyab

February 10, 2024 | Khawar Latif Khan

Pakistan's election 2024: The results as visualized by one of the newspapers (Dawn). I'm not sure if the visualization will stay on the website when we see it, so I'm sharing the link to the saved images in my drive here.

• Election 2024 | Dawn | Homepage

• Election 2024 | Dawn | Details

February 5, 2024, Nicole Ann Hargrove

Super Bowl LVIII is upon us.  Unfortunately, my Baltimore Ravens didn't make it in.  I found this cool example of an interactive map visualization of NFL fans. 

Spring 2022

April 18th  Stephanie:   This is also a very cool vis someone just shared with me, tracking COVID in wastewater (https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-surveillance/wastewater-surveillance.html), Title It includes downloadable datasets—might be a good choice for someone’s project.

April 18th: Stephanie

Residential Fires in New York City: The Jan 2022 Bronx Fire and Racial Disparities

From the website description: A story points-style dashboard shows why the January 2022 Bronx fire was not an isolated incident, and how historically Black/Latinx residents in the Bronx have been disproportionately affected by residential fires. The dashboard also compares Black/Latinx residents and fires in the Bronx to heat and hot water complaints, which can lead to the use of a supplemental heat source such as a space heater. This visualization uses data from 2020, the most recent full year of available data for fires, and 2017, the most recent available data year for supplemental heat.

I think this is a good demo of some of the techniques and concepts we've talked about in this class, especially use of a Tableau story and small multiples (last page of story). 

https://www.tableau.com/foundation/data-equity/economic-power/NYC-residential-fires?utm_campaign=2017069_EGMkt_PNOT_USCA_en-US_2022-03-22_T1-RacialEquityDataHub&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Eloqua&domain=email.unc.edu&eid=CTBLS000024380946&d=7013y000000vYh9&elqTrackId=09a683d7ee34459fae5b70fba8ed384c&elq=c466fada40ac4186a3e913744e79d84b&elqaid=54680&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=53544

March 23rd: Gilleyn

I found this article from the New York Times, which contains two visualizations about the rising prices of gas and its current prices. I have an SUV, so I am worried about the rise in prices and I know other people that are concerned as well. I thought these two visualizations were interesting given how it looks similar to what we have practiced in Tableau and how they used these visualizations to narrate their article. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/business/high-gas-prices.html

March 9: Maura

This is a website called etRNA. Its a different kind of visualization , but the talks of interactive maps and maps for discovery really made me think of this! RNA is DNA’s single stranded cousin, and because of this it is almost impossible to work with and study in the lab. So a group of scientist at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon decided to come up with a way to study RNA. They made this visualization game online. It allows users to play around with different base pairs and to explore what different structures these RNA’s will form. Any structures that users come up with are actually later used/tested at Stanford, so anyone can participate in actual real-life research! It completely free to use and anyone can play!

They also recently started a program to help identify more stable structures of the mRNA vaccines to help make them more accessible (if they are more stable, they don’t have to be stored at such low temperatures). 

https://eternagame.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2qtNyJ3KQg

They also made one for protein structures called Fold.it but I’m not sure if thats still around.

March 9: Stephanie

I think this article about Emma Willard's 19th century visualizations is fascinating, both because of the extremely creative ways she uses pictures to show the passage of time and the realization of how powerful these kinds of images are as propaganda tools. As the author says, "Imperialism, dispossession, and violence was translated, in Willard’s representation, into a peaceful and unified picture of American progress." 

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time

March 9: Chance

This is  a visualization pertaining to the crisis in Ukraine. It is not about the present situation on the ground but more about the scale of Russia's mobilization. There are many layers of data that probably wouldn't' t work if this was not an interactive map, but because they are layered on in a progression, the information is digestible. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-buildup-near-ukraine-features-potent-weapons-systems-well-trained-troops-11644789065

March 9: Stephanie

I think this article about Emma Willard's 19th century visualizations is fascinating, both because of the extremely creative ways she uses pictures to show the passage of time and the realization of how powerful these kinds of images are as propaganda tools. As the author says, "Imperialism, dispossession, and violence was translated, in Willard’s representation, into a peaceful and unified picture of American progress." 

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time

Feb 13: Grace

This is a Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) scan of a lung lobe from a person who died from Covid-19. It is a 3D mapping process and "[t]he technique uses X-rays supplied by the European Synchrotron particle accelerator in Grenoble, France, which following its recent Extremely Brilliant Source upgrade (ESRF-EBS) now provides the brightest source of X-rays in the world — 100 billion times brighter than a hospital X-ray." 

It has been covered in NatGeo but that's behind a paywall so here's a free website link that discusses these specific advances being made in 3D medical imaging: HiP-CT shows lung vessels damaged by Covid-19 | The Engineer The Engineer 

Another shot of the lobe: Lung Lobe 

Feb 9: Chance

This visualization is another one where the data gets too overwhelming to really digest, which I believe is mostly the point:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/atlantic-slave-trade-history-animated-interactive.html

It is also notable that the since this graphic’s publication, one of the authors (Jamelle Bouie) has had mixed feelings about the way it was used. Here is a quote of his that I took as sort of a “handle with care” warning for those wielding data analysis and visualization tools: 

“What I did not appreciate at the time was how we, the creators, would lose control of our creation. People encountered the infographic in ways we could not anticipate and that lay outside of our imagination. It was repurposed for schools and museums, used for personal projects and in exhibitions… I wonder whether we had shown the care demanded of the data. Whether we had, in creating this abstraction, re-enacted — however inadvertently — some of the objectification of the slave trade.” 

Feb 7: Chance

This article uses a series of charts to illustrate Tom Brady's achievements as a professional quarterback. Though not particularly colorful or graphics rich, I thought this was an interesting use of a line chart, and particularly, the y-axis. One thing I didn't notice at first was the lightly shaded fray of lines in the background representing other players of note. You can hover the mouse over those lines to make that data visible. 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/02/upshot/tom-brady-career-stats.html

Jan 26: Stephanie

I thought this was kind of an interesting couple of articles about how to use Tableau to create a new COVID-compliant  layout for restaurants or classrooms. I don't know that it's necessarily the most interesting set of visualizations, but it's an example of data viz experts trying to leverage the tools they have to meet society's immediate needs (these articles were written towards the beginning of the pandemic).

Original blog post by the Flerlage Twins:

https://www.flerlagetwins.com/2020/05/floor-plan.html

Follow up post by Sarah Battersby on how to do the same thing using GIS instead of trigonometry:

https://community.tableau.com/s/news/a0A4T000002NGVbUAO/tableau-functionality-to-build-update-a-social-distancing-floor-plan

Previous classes  (from older to new, from before 2022). 

Spring 2012

Jan 23: Tali

I found this great blog post about how one idea was presented differently in the NYTimes for its online feature and a different visualization was made for the print feature.

Blog post with print feature:

http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/15908760587/before-during-and-after-the-richest-1-percent 

Online interactive visualization: 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-percent-map.html?ref=business 

In this case, surprisingly, I almost prefer the print visualization.

Jan 23: Madeline

I found this visualization of exoplanets (those orbiting stars other than the Sun) using bubble plots and comparing orbits of these planets to those of the planets in our solar system.  While this gives perspective on the exoplanets, their sizes, distances and temperatures, and the comparison with our solar system, it loses sight of star size and other reasons for these differences, since it emphasizes the planets themselves.

http://flowingdata.com/2011/02/09/a-view-of-possibly-habitable-planets-according-to-kepler-data/

Jan 25: Carrie

Here's a timely site that visualizes State of the Union addresses as word clouds, organized along a timeline. I think it could be clearer (for instance, I don't think the red text on black background works very well) but I like the way it considers all SOTUs as a corpus, with each cloud acting as a set of tags.

State of the Union

Jan 31: Kelsey

New York times has a powerful animated visualization of earthquakes and the aftershocks that follow in California. The animation covers various scales of maps throughout different regions, and the entirety, of California. The visualization is made much more effective to the viewer through the use of 2 dimensions, magnitude of earthquake and time.

How Two Big Earthquakes Triggered 16,000 More in Southern California

Jan 31: Kathryn

Washington Post has something similar to CNN - a colored-in map with rollover detail. It also allows you to sort county-level data by county name and by candidate. Exit poll data is on another tab and also has several filtering options. 

WP Florida Primary Results

Feb 13: Kristen

An interactive chart of the performance of Fortune 500 companies since 1955, by Fathom Information Design. Start with your mouse in the top right and click and hold. The first company you should see is the #1 ranked company for 2010. The line shows that company's rank for the previous years that it was ranked. Drag your mouse straight down and you'll go through the list of the top 500 companies for 2010. Drag to the left and you'll see the top 500 companies for each of the previous years.

http://fathom.info/fortune500/

Feb 10: Carrie

For those folks interested in the sharing and dissemination of scholarly information: "Citeology looks at the relationship between research publications through their use of citations. The names of each of the 3,502 papers published at the CHI and UIST Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences between 1982 and 2010 are listed by year and sorted with the most cited papers in the middle. In total, 11,699 citations were made from one article to another within this collection. These citations are represented by the curved lines in the graphic, linking each paper to those that it referenced."

Citeology

Feb 20: Dr H -- Clear & DrugWars

Clear (list management app) http://www.realmacsoftware.com/clear/

Mexico Drug War Deaths

Feb 22: Google Refine

I'll demo Google Refine.  You can download it here.  Allows interactive filtering/visualization of data; particularly easy to use with spreadsheet data from Excel, etc.

March 19: Useful Chart Junk

Useful Chart Junk:   http://dmrussell.net/CHI2010/docs/p2573.pdf

March 26: Visual Explanation of Movie Inception

http://www.inception-explained.com/

March 28: Flowing Data

http://gabrielflor.it/water

http://danielchasehooper.github.com/CodeBook/

April 2: 2001 New Yorker Magazine Cover

Those of you familiar with NYC will find this map amusing.  It was made right after the war in Afghanistan started.

http://www.rickmeyerowitz.com/New%20Nystan.html

-Dave

April 2: Best Map You'll Ever See

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.single.html

Joe

April 2: Perpetual Ocean

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/stunning_perpetual_ocean_visualises_global_surface_currents_video

April 3: Flags

http://flagstories.co/#posts

Melissa

April 4: Windmap of the US

https://mashable.com/2012/03/28/wind-map/

April 9: Drawing Water

Similar to the windmap and perpetual ocean, but it combines rainfall data with water consumption to show the movement of water around the country. The video could be better.

http://sansumbrella.com/works/2011/drawing-water/

April 18: Pulitzer Prize for Seattle Times with Tableau Visualizations

Two example visualizations from their pulitzer prize article:

relative percentage of increased use:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/specialreports/methadone/fataloverdosesmethadoneisno1.html

concentration of prescribing for poorer people:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/specialreports/methadone/methadonestollhigherinpoorerareas.html

Question:  what important factor is this visualization missing?

April 18: Visualizing Super PAC Spending

A neat example created with Tableau. I like that the result of interacting with some of the visualizations is to reveal another visualization—it allows for exploration while keeping the initial view simple. http://blog.visual.ly/visualizing-super-pac-spending/

-Sarah

Spring 2013

Jan 23: Greenhouse Gas Produced in a Big City

Here`s a nice video helping to grasp a general idea of magnitude of greenhouse gas volumes production in NYC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtqSIplGXOA

Nick S

Jan 23: Internet Explorer Market Share v. Murder Rate

I know this forum is probably intended for examples of good visualizations, but I thought this was too funny not to share: http://i.imgur.com/47D7zGq.png. 

Jaya M.

Jan 28: Census Dotmap

Here's a vector (or maybe just high-resolution?) dotmap of the US census. Overview first, then zoom to a block-by-block breakdown. Will take a while to load the zooms on slower connections. It's clean and there's a link to methods.

• http://bmander.com/dotmap/index.html

- Erin C.

Jan 28: Color-branding

I think it`s a neat one, showing brand colors. Note how hi-tech brands are colorful (they forgot new M$ brand, though). There is a number of flaws in it, but I feel like it is quite creative anyway:

- Nick S

Jan 28: London Heatmaps

This website features London mapped in many interesting ways. I had not heard of a heatmap before this. http://www.rentonomy.com/maps/discover

  - Michelle Folkman

Jan 30: 3D printer (Final application of Visualization)

3D Printing has been steadily climbing to the peak of 'Inflated Expectations' over the past few years and now sits on top. link

Actually, I think the cool thing is not only this picture but also 3D printer itself. It also a great example to illustrate visualization data's input and output. 

Some recommends: 

Visualizing data using a 3D printer

Demo of 3D Printer

- Xin Zhang

Jan 30: Happy Groundhog Day

DARPA's 1.8 Gigapixel Drone Camera Could See You Waving At It From 15,000 Feet

Maybe not quite what we have been working on, but I got so geeked out I had to share

-Michelle

Feb 4: Whisper - tracing Twitter message propagation

(Lauren H.)

Whisper is an online visualization tool for tracing the process of information diffusion on Twitter in real time. It is designed to show the story of information diffusion about events.

This is an image of the "diffusion story" following the March 2012 earthquake and tsunami.

The video below shows how Whisper traced the story as revealed through Twitter activity.

From YouTube:

"Whisper is a visualization system that is designed for monitoring information diffusion in microblogs in real time. This video represents Whisper traced the diffusion story about a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, and a series of aftershocks and tsunamis hit the northern coast of Hokkaido island. As shown in the video, original tweets are placed at the center of a circle, and pathways are created to connect to geo-groups once the tweets got re-broadcasted (retweeted) by the groups. The retweeting activity is shown as a sequence of color-coded retweet glyphs moving along pathways indicating the timing and sentiments of the retweets."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aHYU66Z-4FM#at=63

(Sean Pea)

In relation to Lauren's visualisation of the week, let me share with you another visualization about twitter and the 'Good Morning' tweet.

This visualization shows the location where people tweet 'Good Morning' from live.

Legend:

Green = Tweeted in the morning (before 9am)

Yellow = After 9am

Red = late morning

Black = Weird timing

You may notice that this is just a snapshot of the visualization. You may find the dynamic one at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAzxuifHVrw

This information this visualization is trying to convey may not be useful for us. But, I thought it is kind of cool!

Feb 6: Footage of a Thought Being Formed

"A team of Japanese researchers has achieved something incredible: they've captured, for the first time ever, a movie which shows how thoughts form in the brain.

OK, so it's a thought forming in the brain of a zebrafish. And OK, its the fish's reaction to seeing food, so it's probably along the lines of "HUNGRY!". But we shouldn't play this down: this is a fundamental leap forward in our understanding of how brains work." (Gizmodo)

http://gizmodo.com/5980796/first+ever-incredible-footage-of-a-thought-being-formed

- Erin

Feb 6: Twitter Map Activity

That`s a slightly different approach to Twitter activity visualization, called TweetPing. It`s may be not as accurate as Whisper (see above), but I find it hypnotizing and quite impressive in general:

Nick S.

Feb 11: NFL Fandom

in honor of the Super Bowl, 

http://lifehacker.com/5979970/facebook-data-provides-the-most-accurate-nfl-fandom-map-ever-created?tag=infographics

be sure to visit the site to read their analysis! it's amusing

  Louise McGowin

Feb 11: A US High Speed Rail System

[Erin C.]

I chose this visualization because Alfred Twu's words about his potential plan for a US high speed rail system reveal the choices he made when creating this visualization:

"This latest map comes more from the heart. It speaks more to bridging regional and urban-rural divides than about reducing airport congestion or even creating jobs, although it would likely do that as well.

Instead of detailing construction phases and service speeds, I took a little artistic license and chose colors and linked lines to celebrate America's many distinct but interwoven regional cultures."

Feb 11: The Crisis of Credit Visualized (Yida)

This video uses just 10 mins to illustrate how credit crisis comes and the effect of credit crisis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LWm6_6tA

Feb 11: Tactile Tablet Keyboards 

[Emily B.]

Given our reading about mobile displays, I thought this article about "tactile tablets" from Tactus was really interesting. (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/8183899/Tactile-tablet-has-disappearing-buttons) Tactus is working on the technology to turn tablet and mobile touchscreens into tactile keyboards. On these devices raised keys and buttons can appear and disappear on command according to user needs. Tactus sees this as a solution for users who desire the versatility of a touchscreen but find some tasks, such as typing, difficult without the physical sensation of feeling the computer keys under your fingertips.

Tactus Technology - CES 2013 from Tactus Technology Inc. on Vimeo.

Feb 13: Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks

[Click Here] This is a really cool map that shows the income in each census track.  I think it's very easy to use (just like google maps) and presents the information very well.  I also thought it was cool that it gives the option to change the colors if a person is color blind. 

Feb 15: Local IMAX movie - Michelle

You don't know if you will be able to tell from the web site, but this project is impressive. It is an IMAX movie in progress by Greensboro filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren. I saw 12 minutes of it screened at a conference last week and it looks stunning. What puts it over the top for me, information wise, is that it is made from millions of photographs stitched together, rather than the typical 3d viz.

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/

Feb 19:  DataBot Mouse

From the description:

"The mouse is able to communicate three different properties of data. It can

show you the weight of files and folders, by braking with different force,

according to the file-size. 

Or you can set a custom weight for files, just like the color marking function

in MacOSX. So you can find important files more easily. 

The third property, the mouse can show you, is the activity of files and

folders. By breathing with different intervals, it shows how much a file was

opened or how busy a folder has been recently."

Feb 20: Your odds to die under selected circumstances

(submitted by Nick Shchetko)

This neat infographics piece from The Economist shows the odds to die from, say, an impact of a rock falling from the sky.

I wonder how different it`ll be for inhabitants of Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Feb 25: How many years of life have been lost? 

[Nick Shchetko]

This visualization by Periscopic is extremely impressive and telling too:

Gun violence in America: How many years of life have been lost?

March 4: How did I look yesterday?  Last week? Last Month

A personal life visualization example....

http://jehiah.cz/one-two/

March 6: The Power of the Graph

Information Visualization is the key to success!

March 6th:

This is a pretty nifty concept, via the London Zoo:

Cat Map

--Sharon

March 25: College Basketball

http://gizmodo.com/5991141/the-most-accurate-map-of-college-basketball-fandom

March 25: Food for Thought about Tableau Public and Steven Few

In Defence of Eye Candy

Not really a visualization, but interesting commentary on issues we've touched on in class.

March 25: Another College Basketball, via Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=college+basketball+scores&aq=f&oq=college+basket&aqs=chrome.0.59j0j57j0j62l2.1900&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

April 8:  World Builder

http://vimeo.com/3365942

AA541:

Additionally, I'd like you to think about a good design answer to our problem from the end of class today.

If your goal was to make a workstation display based solution, and could have multiple windows, how would you build something that addressed our three questions:

1) show whole org chart  (perhaps through interactions because of scale issue).

2) see relationship between Sean and CEO

3) see all the projects that Sean works on.   (fuzzy part here is how you depict the information about those projects, i.e. tied to departments, or managers, etc--can use your judgment).

Assumptions:

10 million employees

1 CEO

5 2nd level leaders (level below CEO); some of these lead large groups (500,000) some small (5)

org chart depth: 10-12 levels

For each part discuss/draw the kind of visualization technique you would use?   (hopefully same one for 1&2, and perhaps second one for 3).   And if you have two can they be simultaneous (and how would you use brushing, linking, mouse overs, etc).

many eyes: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/visualizations/um-salary-data-by-department

org chart left to right: http://www.theofficialboard.com/org-chart/tableau-software

3D hyperbolic:

http://www.ramanarao.com/papers/startree-chi95.pdf

http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/gallery1/

scale space:

http://graphics.cs.columbia.edu/courses/csw4170/resources/furnasBederson-chi95.pdf

Within Document Tasks

http://www.unc.edu/~marcial/Participant_100.html

desktop:

scrolling http://www.unc.edu/~marcial/sandbox-WD/JMIR_10/JMIR_10.html

paging:  http://www.unc.edu/~marcial/sandbox-WD/JMIR_10/pv_JMIR_10_desktop.html

phone; 

paging:  http://www.unc.edu/~marcial/sandbox-WD/JMIR_50/pv_JMIR_50_ipod.html

scrolling: http://www.unc.edu/~marcial/sandbox-WD/JMIR_10/JMIR_10.html

April 17: Data Science Classes Across the Country

~Lauren H.

April 17: Ville Vivante

http://villevivante.ch/

From the website:

Almost 1.6 billion mobile phones have been sold worldwide in 2010, 19% of them being smartphones. In 2010, the number of mobile subscriptions has reached almost 10 million in Switzerland, which is more than the number of people living in the country. Approximately 25% of these telephones featured a broadband internet connection.

Every mobile phone leaves digital traces permanently, while interacting with the mobile infrastructure. It can be seen as a mobile sensor that allows to define the geographic position of the subscription holder, almost in real-time.

During one day Swisscom subscribers in Geneva generate approximately 15 million connections from 2 million phone calls. This information called 'digital traces' offers new insights about the city, which are of great interest both from a economic and political perspective. Examples are the following.

1. For citizens this data allows to feel the pulse of the population and see how they use the urban space. It offers a great innovation opportunity for new citizen services like traffic jam detectors or nightlife buzz indicators.

2. For the public administration these digital traces can be very useful to evaluate urban planning strategies.

3. For businesses the digital traces can reveal insights on how popular certain districts are, during what time periods. This information can be leveraged to determine leases or chose the best spot for a shop or restaurant.

More generally digital traces allow to reveal information that is invisible in traditional visualization techniques such as cartography. They reflect mobility in a city or a street and therefore represent 'living' space, animated by the people.

Jan 22: Correlation Vs. Causation

Jan 27: Visualization of the Scale of the Universe

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1203/scaleofuniverse_huang.swf

Jan 28: "Just How Big is Carolina?"

Check out the full article, here: https://admissions.unc.edu/admissions-blog/2014/01/27/how-big-is-carolina/ 

Jan 29: "Liquor Map of the World" 

This one may only look good if you have had a couple!

Here is the article: http://www.yahoo.com/food/booze-map-of-the-world-crushes-our-spirits-74417073147.html

Creationist funded teaching:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_public_schools_mapped_where_tax_money_supports_alternatives.html

Jan 30: The Internet as a World Map

What the world would look like if we mapped the Internet and tech companies like they were countries. This is actually incredibly intricate -- so you have to click and zoom around to find things: http://the9988.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Internet-1-0-427143215

Feb 5: Crayola Crayons Through the Years

This graphic depicts crayola crayon color introductions through the years. I wish it had the name changes (Indian Red became Chestnut in 1990 for example) but I still thought it was interesting - the expansion of skin tone type colors especially. (A. Tickner)

Feb 12: Olympic 500m Speedskating

Visualizes how men's 500m speedskating times have increased steadily since 1924 and how speeds increase at higher elevations. 

Available from http://graphics.wsj.com/speed-skating-primer/?mod=e2tw.

Feb 13: Marvel Characters and which Film Studios own them - Oak Ritchie

from Facebook on Love: https://www.facebook.com/data/posts/10152217010993415

Oak Ritchie - I saw this the other day in Cary, and thought of the projections we were consulting about a couple weeks back.

What does it mean?!?!? - Oak Ritchie

April 15: Interactive Map of Game of Thrones

http://quartermaester.info/

I do not know if this is actually new, but this is a cool interactive map for Game of Thrones that includes the routes the different characters take in the books. The coolest feature is the slider near the top that allows you to limit by chapters or episodes, preventing spoiling. It also shows the borders for each of the major houses which is a nice little perk.

Spring 2015

Jan 26: Anti-municipal broadband laws state by state 

which states regulate public broadband and how? From 1/20/2015 State of Union address by Obama.

Jan 30: The age at which creative minds peak.

If you are still struggling to know what you should do, don't worry, there is still time. Below is a visualization of lots of people known to have contributed to society in one way or another and the age that they "peaked."

Feb 15: New Font to help those with dyslexia

http://themighty.com/2014/11/this-man-invented-a-font-to-help-people-with-dyslexia-read/

I came across this article and found it interesting that a change in how a font is designed could help those with dyslexia read better. The idea is that current fonts have such similar shapes and designs that it makes it difficult to quickly process for those with dyslexia. The font design has a larger bases, added slants and shifts on the openings to help bring attention to the differences in the letters. Studies have been conducted on his font and 3/4 of the participants surveyed made fewer mistakes. This is important because according to PBS, 17% of the population has dyslexia.

Feb 23

Virtual Reality Allow Users to experience Schizophrenia:

5 year Anniversary Video of Solar Dynamics Observatory

Oscar nominations:  

Where The Digital Economy Is Moving The Fastest:

As we have had a lot of great examples, I thought I would throw in a bad one. It's trying to show both the rate of growth of a few countries and how they score on the Digital Evolution Index (I think, I don't know what that is or if that is what the vertical axis is indicating. The over lapping colors are hard to understand and the four categories don't really mean anything. 

Music Genres and Popularity:  

DressGate:  was color dress is she wearing?

March 23: Mapping Migration in the United States since 1900

This interactive visualization from the New York Times combines a tree map with a spatial map to show the makeup of states over time, comparing the amount of people born there vs people who moved there. 

April 1: What The Internet Thinks About

http://fundersandfounders.com/what-internet-thinks-based-on-media/

This is a fun visualization about what is being looked/viewed the most on the Internet. The link above takes you to the interactive version of it - which goes along with what we are talking about in class - the ability to interact with the information.

Interactive Sunburst: GA Tech

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5944371

The example at the bottom of http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/sunburst/

Ellis Act:  San Francisco Evictions (Nicci)

http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/ellis.htm

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Avengers Comic Book Covers:  a history in color

For the FUTURE (course in 2016):  video on deaths during war, with great graphics. 

The 15-minute video (it’s well worth the time to watch), titled “<a href="https://vimeo.com/128373915" target="_blank">The Fallen of World War II</a>,” is divided into three sections. The first is an analysis of soldier fatalities by nation, while the second tackles civilian deaths (including the Holocaust). The final section provides a fascinating and illuminating overarching perspective of WWII in the context of previous conflicts and those that followed.

Spring 2016

Humbolt's Infographics depicting his collection knowledge from survey trips to South and Central America in early 1800s. (Lance)

Measure the Force (Star Wars) (Dr. H)

Gun Control Betaworks (Miranda)

North Carolina Leads the Way (in gun stores), full story

Excel:  an artist's tool Tatsuo Horiuchi  

I thought this viz was very clean and instantly readable and made the contrasts between the candidates very obvious. (Lance)

How Much? This website visualizes how much in gas money it would cost to travel from different cities in the U.S. (Adam)

Lady Gaga Grammys and JPL using VR in mainstream

NY Times- Following results of Michigan primary- 3/8/16

Be sure to check out complete Viz: Here

History through Newspaper:  http://pharos.l3s.uni-hannover.de:7080/ArchiveSearch/starterkit/

Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition:    http://labs.jstor.org/zambezi/   

Xtranormal video: example of text to animation to make more engaging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA4FNRw7LM0

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/200-years-that-changed-the-world-bbc/  (allow 10-15)

All of Kobe Bryant's shots: http://graphics.latimes.com/kobe-every-shot-ever/

Main character of Game of Thrones: http://qz.com/650796/mathematicians-mapped-out-every-game-of-thrones-relationship-to-find-the-main-character/

Jan 22 2018:  [Dr H]  Google Play Music   https://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/# 

Feb 5: [Maudrie Alexis] Visual Introduction to Machine Learning  http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

Hongyi Dong, Feb 12: Crytocurrency Live Charts

https://ohmyco.in/charts/#/gemini/BTC-USD

February 28: [Emily Crockett] 

April 2

Check out these cool "basketball imperialism" visualizations from Reddit. Here is the description/explanation for the maps... 

"What if college basketball games were battles for land? Every county is the possession of the team located closest to it. If a team is beaten, all of their land is taken by the team to defeat them, regardless of where the game takes place."

I included the Round of 64, Sweet 16 and Finals, but they did these throughout the season. It's a really cool visualization and unique concept.

Round of 64: https://i.redd.it/j1u5hcfqmul01.png

Sweet 16: https://i.redd.it/q38qp72p9nm01.png

Finals: https://i.redd.it/9uopo0nu18p01.png

Here Are The Literal Meanings Behind The Names Of Every Country On Earth:  

January 30, 2019 [Sarah Albrecht]

History of the World

This is a cool interactive visualization which allows the viewer to choose a time period and hover over a region to see what was happening at that point in time. You can also narrow it by region to view more detail that way. I think this visualization would be even cooler if it had more detail- it would be a great study tool for high school students learning about world history for the first time.

February 3, 2019 [Kristen Wagner]

I just thought this visualization was fitting for this week! Nothing fancy or complicated. But it doesn't show it by population. Because Alaska is so small in this though, perhaps the Patriot land is not being represented fairly.

Tanzila Zaman 02/11/2018

The Story of Manhattan's Dynamic Population

    http://manpopex.us/

This population estimates are the result of a combination of US Census data and a geographic dispersion of calculated net inflows and outflows from subway stations, normalized to match population daytime and nighttime estimates provided by a study from NYU Wagner. 

Tanzila Zaman 02/17/2019

Simple handmade graphic to show the difference in size of the crowd in Donald Trump inauguration versus women's march protest. Some cons about this graphic is the grid background, no year shown, and no definite axis, but I think the message designer is trying to send is very clear i.e. there were 5X as many people in women's march protest compare to Trump's inauguration. 

Witcher Interactive Map

January 15, 2020:

Vaccines Risk