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Visual Inspiration: Word Trees, Maps and the Perfect March Madness Bracket
At Visual.ly, we are constantly coming across amazing data visualizations: from mind-blowing interactive infographics and visualization tools to static designs or videos that leave a lasting...
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Infographics and Politics: Shaping Public Opinion on Facebook
Infographics are practically everywhere, but if you’re looking for sheer volume, look to the issues. There’s good reason for this: infographics are the perfect succinct, persuasive tools. They’re...
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Visualizing Our Favorite TV Shows
There are infographics for pretty much everything these days. But of all the topics or issues you could tackle, one of the easiest to visualize successfully — both in terms of quality and shareability...
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Love, Sex, and Infographics
With text messaging, social networks, and compatibility algorithms complicating the already intimidating (and sometimes downright frightening) world of love and sex, you may be feeling like you need a...
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Finding Meaning—and Relationships—in Abstraction
Choosing what information to leave out can be harder — and more important — than choosing what to include. Restraint directs people to meaning, while excess information only clouds the focus. This rule...
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Visual Inspiration: Dot Map, Petri Projects, Google Street View Hyper-Lapse
Dot Map An interactive map of every person counted by the 2010 US, 2011 Canadian, and 2010 Mexican censuses. The map has 454,064,098 dots – one for each person. The project is open to the public domain...
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The Story of a Knight
Marco Sors created an interesting map that tells the story of a Knight. Here is his take on the creative process of a multimedia story. Can history be fun? With visual storytelling, maybe yes. Story of...
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“Creative” Things Designers Do: Area Based Encodings
In the past two weeks, we showed you some of the ways designers get creative with pie charts and bar charts. Another class of visualizations that designers use is based on area representations of data....
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Is Cartography Dead?
People sometimes ask me if cartography is dead. Students wonder if they should pick something else to stake a career in. Professionals wonder if their business will dry up soon. No one really knows...
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5 Useful How-To Infographics: Turn Your Hobby into a Business, Learn to Focus...
Learning how to do things used to mean pouring over instruction manuals and textbooks, many of them lengthy treatises with confusing diagrams and boring text blocks. These how-to documents are...
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Data Visualization for Tablets and Touch Screens
At the end of 2012, comScore estimated there were 52.4 million tablet owners in the U.S.; Apple sold another 19.5 million iPads in the first three months of 2013 alone. So it shouldn’t come as a...
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“Creative” Things Designers Do: Map Edition
In the past few weeks, we’ve been running a series on the tweaks that designers do to charts to make them fit the aesthetics of the graphics they are creating. So far, we showed you some of the ways...
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Art Beyond the Map
We all know that data, rendered effectively, can be art. Art is usually less empirical, so what it tells you about a person or place can’t always be measured. No Country: Contemporary Art for South...
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Stupid Things Infographic Designers Do
Now that you know about many of the creative things that designers do to pie charts, bar charts, line charts, maps, and area based encodings, it’s time we showed you some of the stupid things designers...
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3 Fitness Apps That Use Visuals and Visualization to Motivate Your Workouts
Armed with their smart phones, consumers now have more visual tools than ever to help them achieve their fitness goals. Smart phone fitness apps can track running pace, distance, time and elevation, or...
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Top 200 College Football Recruits of 2014
School may be out, but college football programs are already gearing up for the 2014 season by contracting the country’s most promising new high school seniors. For this year’s recruiting season,...
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Mapping the Protests in Turkey
In Istanbul, a small citizen sit-in quickly escalated into a nation-wide movement of anti-government demonstrations that has so far claimed the lives of two people and mobilized an estimated 250,000....
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Stamen’s Map Stack
For a long time, making highly stylized maps has been an extremely manual process with tedious Photoshopping or drawing using Illustrator, but beautiful and accessible map creation is becoming a...
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Coloring with Association
"And How Many Rains Must Fall before the Stains Are Washed Clean" (2013) By Imran Qureshi (b. 1972, Hyderabad, Pakistan) Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Hyla Skopitz Much color work for...
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Relive All Your Check-Ins with Foursquare’s New “Time Machine”
Ever wish you could relive a past trip or retrace your favorite places from years past? With its just-released new Time Machine feature, Foursquare allows you to do just that — in a fun, visual way....
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