Data Visualization Examples

Updated: 26 February 2015

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Global population in a city

If the world's population lived in one city ...

If we all lived like New Yorkers, for example, 7 billion people could fit into Texas. If we lived like Houstonians, though, we’d occupy much of the conterminous United States. Info-graphic by Tim de Chant from Per Square Mile.

Source: Per Square Mile

 

 

Terrorism in Syria

Foreign fighter flow to Syria

An estimated 15,000 militants from at least 80 nations are believed to have entered Syria. Sources: International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ISCR), The Soufan Group, CIA. Gene Thorp, Julie Tate and Swati Sharma. Published on October 11, 2014.

The Soufan Group, CIA

International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ISCR)

 

London - Daily Commutes

Daily Commutes into London

Paul Kerley, BBC News Magazine

Image is subject to copyright - London: The Information Capital by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti (Particular Books).

 

Better Life

The better life snowflake

Visualization of data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development by Paula Filippone.

 

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy's Impact on NYC 311 Calls

Some of the most frequent 311 complaint types are shown for the days before and after Sandy hit New York City, indicating how this service was used during the disaster.

 
 

Data visualization: Debt crisis

An Overview of the Euro Crisis

The New York Times, Sunday Review, published 22 October 2011.

Arrow widths are proportional to the balance of money owned.

 
 

Whereabouts London

This is an experiment by the Future Cities Catapult to explore how open data can be used to help cities and citizens see their environment in a new light.

 

Percentage of Muslim population by country

Map by M. T. Hunter, 29 June 2014;
Data from Pew Research Center, 2014 (pdf)

 

 

The world's top 50 banks - and the institutions that no longer exitst.

Guardian Infographic with data from The Banker magazine, 25 March 2009

 

 

Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria: Where Do They Come From?

Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, 29 September 2014

Powered by Tableau

 

Patterns of Storms

Storm warning: prepare for a busy hurricane season. New Scientist, 31 May 2011

Powered by Tableau, Data by NOAA

 
 

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James Cheshire / Oliver Uberti (2014) London: The Information Capital. 100 maps and graphics that will change how you view the city. Particular Books

Alexandru C. Telea (2014) Data Visualization. Principles and practice. 2nd edition. A.K. Peters / CRC Press

David McCandless (2014) Knowledge is Beautiful. Impossible ideas, invisible patterns, hidden connections - visualized. Harper Design

Ian H. Witten / Eibe Frank (2011) Data Mining. Practical machine learning tools and techniques. 3rd Edition. Morgan Kaufman

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Tale of 100 Entrepreneurs

How Long Does It Take To Build A Technology Empire?
Wall Street Journal, 25 August 2009

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Wealth Year 2015

SASI Group, University of Sheffield; Mark Newman,
University of Michigan, 2006

 

U.S. Secret Terrorist-Tracking System

Database of Terrorist Suspects (THE // INTERCEPT, 5 August 2014)

 

U.S. Gun Deaths in 2013 and 2010

People killed and "stolen years" (periscopic.com)

 

Top Secret America

Washington Post

 

Worldwide Remittance Flows 2010

Tages Woche

 

Dynamic Wind Map

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
(use Chrome Browser)

 

Real-time Wind Map of the Globe

Cameron Beccario, NCEP / National Weather Service / NOAA
(use Chrome Browser)

 

Three-Generation-Model of Wealth Transfer

Lexis-diagram illustrating the idea of inter-generation solidarity in wealth transfers.

G.K. Heilig, www.demographics.at

 

Flight paths worldwide 2012

Alexey Papulovskiy, www.contrailz.com

 

How the recession reshaped the U.S. economy

The New York Times

 

The Evolution of an Organization

Autodesk Research

 

How much is time wrong around the world?

Stefano Maggiolo

 
 
 

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Nathan Yau (2011): Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics. Wiley, 1st Edition.

Scott Murray (2013): Interactive Data Visualization for the Web. O'Reilly Media; 1 Edition.

 

David McCandless (2012): Visual Miscellaneum: The Bestselling Classic, Revised and Updated: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia. Harper Design; Revised edition.

Gareth Cook (Ed.) (2013): The Best American Infographics 2013. Mariner Books.

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The Corruption Perception Index 2012

Transparency International

 

Billionaires worldwide

Kim Albrecht

 

Meteoroids 1900-2000

Kim Albrecht

 

Geographic distribution of predicted H7N9 infection risk (bird flu)

Marius Gilbert, et. al.

 

Dark Intelligence

Cyber attacks from darknets in hundreds of locations from over 40 countries. Attack flows against the NORSE honey pot infrastructure.

NORSE

 

Historical Energy Mix in Germany

Gregor Aisch, www.driven-by-data.net

 
 
 
 

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Dona M. Wong (2013) The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures. W. W. Norton & Company; 1 Edition.

Randy Krum (2013) Cool Infographics: effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design. Wiley, 1st Edition

Stephen Few (2006) Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. O'Reilly Media

Mark Stacey (2013) Visual Intelligence: Microsoft Tools and Techniques for Visualizing Data. Wiley, 1st Ed.

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Consequences of rapid population growth

A diagram illustrating the challenges and risk, but also the opportunities, of rapid population growth.

G.K. Heilig, www.demographics.at

 

The NSA Revelations All in One Chart

Pro Publica

 

How Americans Die

Bloomberg

 

American Highway System

Transit Maps

 

The Elements According to Relative Abundance

Wm. F. Sheehan, University of Santa Clara

 

Dominant Players over Time

Randall Munroe, xkcd

 

Internet & Population

Gregor Aisch, driven-by-data.net

 

Party Donations in Germany

Gregor Aisch, www.driven-by-data.net

 
 

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