#visualization

interview with Marcin Ignac

“Let’s see what happens when simulitis spreads in a town of 200 people. We will start everyone in town at a random position, moving at a random angle, and we will make one person sick.”

“Seven human coronaviruses in seven graphics”

talk by Nadieh Bremer

talk by Charlie Loyd from Eyeo 2016

“[Vision] is really a very inexact and artistic, personal interpretation of some form of reality.”

I’m always amazed that London is south from Warsaw

talk by Nicholas Felton

“an embarassingly simple algorithm that we can add on top of our existing 2D renderer with only a few lines of code”

“I wondered what did my favorite books look like without words.”

one link you can point people to

called viridis

data art

“how long one would expect to travel to any point in Europe starting in x, using only trains and walking”

I especially like the use of the cubehelix color palette, which “prints as a monotonically increasing greyscale on black and white postscript devices”.

in USA

“[…] an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape”

“SVG patterns for Data Visualization”

talk by Mike Bostock

“is a new generative design studio in London”

talk by Robert Hodgin

Interactive introductory video to “a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing, to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and reinterprets this for today’s web”.

“The Solar System’s solid surfaces stitched together”

by Feltron et alii

“During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. When the relationship starts, posts begin to decrease.”

“In 30 years time the Earth may once again capture J002E3 for another brief tour around its home planet.” — NASA, 2002

Spot painting for 3,500,000 USD…

“The images we’re sharing here use all of the geo-tagged Tweets since 2009 — billions of them.”

talk by Bret Victor

“I’ve crawled that archive, pulling down the location for each of the 1,129,177 photographs taken from the ISS.”