data visualisation
Online

Map Shows Where The People Who Google ‘Zombies’ Are From

Apparently the only people who care about zombies are the people who live in developed, populous, Western-with-a-tinge-of-Japan big cities. The rest of the world just doesn’t give a crap about the walking dead.

August 25, 2011
Online

Watch The Virginia Earthquake Spread Across Twitter

You’ve seen the XKCD comic showing how tweets about an earthquake eventually spread faster than the quake itself, and now here’s the proof.

July 28, 2011
Online

What US Politics Looks Like On Twitter

Twitter is as much a place for tech talk as it is for political discourse along party lines. Don’t believe me, then check out this above graph of politically charged tweets.

July 27, 2011
Online

What Happens When On The Internet, Visualised

When is lady’s night on the internet? Wednesday. When do people break up? Friday, by a mile. What day sucks the most? Thursday, apparently! The internet has a rhythm, friends, and XKCD has laid it bare for all to see.

July 9, 2011
Online

Twitter And Flickr Light Up The Planet

People love visualising internet usage, mostly because it’s very pretty. But photographer and NYT tech editor Eric Fischer’s outdone himself with perhaps the prettiest one of all, mesmeroisingly mapping Flickr and Twitter use across the dark surface of the Earth.

July 8, 2011
Mobile

The United States Is Like A Loud, Clique-y High School Lunchroom

When you think of a map of the US, you probably break it down by state or quadrants or party affiliation. But MIT, IBM and AT&T’s research teams decided to look at who was talking to whom, and the resulting map is pretty captivating.

June 22, 2011
Mobile

Nokia’s Separation Anxiety, Visualised

How do you solve a problem like Nokia? The company has been foundering for years, and at this point may have taken on more water than newish CEO Stephen Elop CEO can bail. But how did a company once so far ahead of the game drop to the back of the pack? It might be more a matter of distance than ideas.

June 21, 2011
Online

What Happens In 60 Seconds On The Internet

Shut down your internet for 60 seconds and here’s a sampling of what you will miss:

June 14, 2011
Entertainment

Here’s Every 3D Movie Ever Made

Some day in the not-so-distant future, there’s going to be a bizarro Criterion Collection that goes about destroying the very worst that Hollywood has provided us. They’d be wise to start with this (gigundo) graphic that lays out every single 3D movie ever. BURN IT. BURN IT ALL.

June 1, 2011
Geek Out

Why This Keyboard Forms A Skyline

Keyboard island, ho! Although what looks at first like random keystroke skyscrapers is actually much more purposeful; each button visualises how often you use it. We are an E-crazed people, indeed.

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