Posts tagged "Daily Viz"

This is an oldie, but a goodie: A color-coded chart that helps decipher the Twitter API, created by the company’s platform services lead, Raffi Krikorian. Each color represents a different field of... Read more →

I spent the morning replacing old door knobs and power outlets around the house. These items were purchased from both Lowe’s and Home Depot — America’s two retail home improvement giants.... Read more →

Ronald Brownstein writes today about the “daunting and even historic” rejection of Democrats by white voters in last year’s mid-term elections. The story also links to this cool graphic, which illustrates the... Read more →

Inspired by Bill Rankin’s maps, I downloaded the U.S. Census of Agriculture, which counted the number of food animals sold and moved off farms in each American county during the 2007... Read more →

Republicans today take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, ending four years with the Democrats in charge. This chart, courtesy of Wikipedia, visualizes partisan control in that chamber since... Read more →

Who doesn’t like salsa, right? It’s America’s number-one condiment, at least in the mind of George Costanza. But not all states like it the same, apparently, according to Google, which... Read more →

A friend and colleague contributed today’s visualization, a word cloud of the 1861 Texas Ordinance of Secession:  Source: Wordle Read more →

Let’s face it: This is a dreadful season for Dallas Cowboys fans. Romo went down, Uncle Wade got fired and the future remains uncertain. Still, historically speaking, the season hasn’t... Read more →

Watching The King’s Speech yesterday, I wondered how the various major movies genres and rating levels fare against one another at the box office. Using data from The Numbers, a... Read more →

Amsterdam SMS messages on New Years Eve from Aaron Koblin on Vimeo. I got married in Amsterdam, and spent an exciting New Year’s Eve last year in The Hague, so I’m partial... Read more →

The Washington, D.C., official data catalog is a rich source for information about the nation’s capitol. Users can download dozens of free GIS products as well as datasets related to city... Read more →