Data Visualization

The Million Dollar Blocks Project is one of many fascinating policy-driven data visualization pieces by the Spatial Information Design Lab.

This interactive web-based data visualization uses striking graphics to help viewers visualize the duration and death toll of the major and minor conflicts of the last century.

One of Katie Peek's many excellent infographics, How the World Wastes Food packs in loads of information while remaining relatively visually simple.

Although quite different than most data visualizations, Eve Mosher's High Water Line is an excellent example of public art that visualizes data.

This data visualization is cited by data visualization experts (including Edward Tufte) as one of the best works of all time. It shows an amazing quantity of data in an easily accessible and aesthetically pleasing manner.

Tyler Vigen's 'Spurious Correlations' project is witty and slightly irreverent. It centers on simple graphs of correlations between 2 obviously independent variables (for example, Age of Miss America vs. Murders by steam, hot vapours, and hot objects). It's an important reminder that good data work must underpin good data visualizations.

This amazing interactive graphic helps users see the scientific evidence supporting (or not!) popular health supplements. It contains a massive amounts of data from scientific studies, rendering such information accessible to the layperson.

Information is Beautiful, a visual blog started by data-journalist David McCandless, is a great place to find fun and informative data visualizations.

As the title suggests, Cool Infographics is a web compendium of cool data visualization work. Krum, the author of the blog, also wrote a book with the same title.

Unsurprisngly, Twitter is a great place to find folks doing cutting-edge data work. And, as a bonus, they all tweet out each others' stuff, so finding one expert you like can help you easily find others.

This list includes many folks who are otherwise featured in this research guide, and captures the wide range of people currently working on data viz.

Cole, the author of the Storytelling With Data Blog, has numerous insightful posts about data visualization. She uses examples of recent graphs to show readers what works and what doesn't.

This article gives readers a sense of the scope of tools available for data visualization projects.

This list is a great collection of the infographic and data visualization blogs, ranging from the larger and better-known to the smaller and more off-the-beaten-path.

Well-known for its top-notch data work, the NYTimes graphics department is the go-to for journalistic data visualization.

The Guardian's DataBlog is another great example of journalistic data visualization work.