DVIZ

11/10/2013

The safest time to drive

As we've seen, there are more fatal car crashes during the weekend and summer months, which is some time between May and September in the United States. The Guardian took a different approach to look at road fatalities in Australia.

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As we've seen, there are more fatal car crashes during the weekend and summer months, which is some time between May and September in the United States. The Guardian took a different approach to look...

11/09/2013

Roomba traces

We've seen what happens when you turn on a Roomba and track its vacuum path with long-exposure photography. The LED on top provides a point of focus, and the visual represents an odd blend of chaos and...

11/05/2013

"The nation's 10 largest financial institutions hold 54% of our total financial assets; in 1990, they held 20%. As MotherJones reports, the number of banks has dropped from more than 12,500 to about 8,000. "

Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to batteries. But it gets even crazier who when you see who controls the money.

11/02/2013

Age at First Marriage

Age at first marriage varies significantly across countries. In general the higher is per capita income, the older are people who get married at first time. In developed European Countries like Germany,...

11/01/2013

Quarterback streaks

Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times explore quarterback streaks in the National Football League since 1970. The longest streak for each team is highlighted yellow, and you...

11/01/2013

Cities pulse via Foursquare check-ins

Foursquare check-ins can be self-encapsulated and personal to the individual, where each dot represents a specific place in time. Each point represents a stop at a restaurant, store, or place of business....

10/31/2013

U.S. Open Data Institute

With a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, Waldo Jaquith pushes forward with the U.S. Open Data Institute, an effort to link government data sources and organizations over the next year.

10/31/2013

Beauty of mathematics

Betrand Russell: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." Yann Pineill and Nicolas...

10/30/2013

Million Lines of Code | Information Is Beautiful

Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines of code are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps? Let our data-visualization program your brain.

10/14/2013

Le téléphone fixe ne s’est jamais imposé sur le continent mais les mobiles, eux, dessinent une nouvelle carte.

10/08/2013

The Poverty Line

Poverty is hard to define, even though it is a term that we use very often.

09/29/2013

"Oracle’s Path to VictoryOracle Team USA won its eighth consecutive race to overtake Emirates Team New Zealand and retain the America’s Cup. A look at how the final race unfolded, with Oracle winning by 44 seconds." http://buff.ly/1bgvzhj

A look at how the final race in the America’s Cup unfolded, with Oracle Team USA beating Emirates Team New Zealand by 44 seconds.