I'm a sucker for Data Visualization

I especially like visualization. I acknowledge the importance of data.

Here are the winners of the World Data Visualization Prize 2019. Check them all over here. You can spend the whole night playing around with the different filters.

The Grand Prize Winner:

An Alternative, Data-Driven, Country Map
This dazzling, winning entry from Nikita Rokotyan uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to find previously-unseen connections and harmonies between different countries. It uses an AI technique called t-SNE to discover clusters of nations that are related by happiness score, health expenditure, investment in education and many other variables. It then presents these patterns visually, creating an interactiv e world map that we can explore, tweak and filter to find unexpected pairings and insights. It uses design, code and artificial intelligence to bring data and statistics to life.
By Interacta – Nikita Rokotyan, Olya Stukova and Dasha Kolmakova

The Interactive Winner:

GOV | DNA
This beautiful interactive graphic shows the “DNA” of good government. You can compare multiple indicators to investigate their influence on countries, and share your findings with others.
By Werner Helmich

The Interactive Runner Up:

Mapamundi
We had so many great interactive entries that we’ve chosen two runners-up. The first uses artificial intelligence techniques to cluster countries together based on different indicators, creating a new world map.
By Christian Parsons

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We can't do without Google Search anymore - How to fix a toilet

How To Fix A Toilet and other things we couldn't do without Search. A very nice visualization of Google Search by Xaquín González Veira in collaboration with Google Search - A visual essay.

Daily Rituals From Historical Creatives

Nice visualizations. How did historical creatives spend their days.

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Literature vs Sleeping Habits

Ever wondered about the link between writers and their sleep habits? Here it is. A study about it.

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Classic Music Visualized As A Rollercoaster

Visualization of the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries in the shape of a rollercoaster.

Bach Cello Suite visualized

Baroque.me (2011) by Alexander Chen. Video capture. baroque.me visualizes the first Prelude from Bach's Cello Suites. Using the math behind string length and pitch, it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music's underlying structure and subtle shifts.

7 Billion

How did we get so big?!

"It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West.

As higher standards of living and better health care are reaching more parts of the world, the rates of fertility — and population growth — have started to slow down, though the population will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

U.N. forecasts suggest the world population could hit a peak of 10.1 billion by 2100 before beginning to decline. But exact numbers are hard to come by — just small variations in fertility rates could mean a population of 15 billion by the end of the century.

Produced by Adam Cole Cinematography by Maggie Starbard"

Aaron Koblin Visualizing Our Humanity

TED: Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.

The Virtual Adobe Museum Of Digital Media - AMDM

'Making Of' video from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners


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Visual Complexity

This is such an interesting site. Check the projects.


by James Ford