Tags: visualisations

Here’s some code to show the distance to the nearest airports on a map.

Here’s a modified version that shows the distance to the nearest Gregg’s. The hub-and-spoke visualisation overlaid on the map changes as you pan around, making it look like a spider bestriding the landscape.

Jonty’s version shows the distance to the nearest Pret a Manger.

I got nerdsniped by someone saying:

@adactio This would be cool for sessions 😉

He’s right, dammit! So here you go:

Session spider.

Now you can see how far you are from the nearest traditional Irish music sessions.

It’s using data from the weekly data dumps from thesession.org—I added a GeoJSON file in there.

Pure silliness, but it does make me wonder what kind of actually good data visualisations could be made with all this scrumptious data.

1 dataset. 100 visualizations.

The same small dataset visualised in a hundred different ways, with notes on the strengths and weaknesses of each one.

Which color scale to use when visualizing data - Datawrapper Blog

A fascinating four-part series by Lisa Charlotte Muth on colour in data visualisations:

1. Which color scale to use when visualizing data
2. When to use quantitative and when to use qualitative color scales
3. When to use sequential and when to use diverging color scales
4. When to use classed and when to use unclassed color scales

Kaleidoscope Brain: 100 Visualizations of Moby-Dick

Download this PDF to see 100 beautiful literary visualisations.

Vonnegut’s Story Shapes | Extraordinary Facility

The next best thing to having Kurt Vonnegut at the blackboard.

List of Physical Visualizations

A timeline showing the history of non-digital dataviz.

Kinopio

I’m finding this tool to be very useful for the kind of chaotic mind-mapping I do when I’m preparing a conference talk.

Complexity Explorables

A cornucopia of interactive visualisations. You control the horizontal. You control the vertical. Networks, flocking, emergence, diffusion …it’s all here.

Astronomical Typography

Typography meets astronomy in 16th century books like the Astronomicum Caesareum.

It is arguably the most typographically impressive scientific manual of the sixteenth century. Owen Gingerich claimed it, “the most spectacular contribution of the book-maker’s art to sixteenth-century science.”

Generative Artistry

Tutorials for recreating classics of generative art with JavaScript and canvas.

Dwitter

A social network for snippets of JavaScript effects in canvas, written in 140 characters or fewer. Impressive!

See something or say something - a set on Flickr

These lovely visualisations of geotagged photos and tweets are almost indistinguishable from aerial views of cities at night.