Tag Archives: Visualization

Animated New York City Taxi GPS Visualization

From Vimeo via Flowing Data: Using GPS data from NYC taxis, a group of Columbia students created this animated heat map where they traveled. “Taxi! is an analytical model that maps the trip data for 10,000 taxi rides over the course of 24 hours. Geographic location data for the origin and destination of each ride [...]

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Weight Of The Union

From Anytime Health via Cool Infographics: We’re fat. Click on the image or the jump to embiggen. Pun intended.

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Yoda Pie Chart

I chuckled when I saw this. I’m sure someone, somewhere, has a Venn Diagram of this, too. Yoda Pie Chart

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The Deadliest Disease Outbreaks in History

It’s been a while since I posted a good info graphic but this one from Good should make up for that. It’s a scaled visualization on the world’s deadliest outbreaks in history. It’s flash but it makes it slightly easier to read the fine print that way. Interesting fact: The Plague killed 75 million over [...]

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Is There A Formula For A Hit Song?

Thomas Engelhardt and Shaun Ellis, Rutgers University students, looked at hundreds of songs and mapped qualities about them to see if there was a formula for creating a hit song. They found the average song has 120 beats per minute, 4.5 minutes in length, and is loud — a horrible trend that started with the [...]

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