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.

09/29/2013

"State-by-State Premiums Under the Health Care LawNew data from the Department of Health and Human Services outline average monthly costs for individuals and families buying insurance through new exchanges in 36 states. The premiums shown below are for the second-cheapest of the various “silver” plans offered in each state" http://buff.ly/1bgvyKp

New data from the Department of Health and Human Services outline how much monthly health care premiums will cost for individuals and families buying insurance through new exchanges in 36 states.

09/28/2013

Searching for other Earths http://buff.ly/1bgvxWV

In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous for New Scientist, is an exploration of possible Earths light years away. Possible planets are marked based on...

09/28/2013

Impressive exploration of projection mapping http://buff.ly/18tOrno

Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and turning them into something else visually. This video of Box is an impressive demonstration of the technology.

09/27/2013

SoS (State of Surveillance) Monitor http://buff.ly/18tOkbs

âState of Surveillanceâ Monitor is a visualization project that integrates various source of data in order to compare two different perspectives: (i) the surveillance mechanisms the governments are deploying, versus (ii) the âawarenessâ of the citizens and the media.

09/27/2013

"What Countries Ask For The Biggest Share of Facebook Users?" http://buff.ly/18tO4cy

Facebook's Transparency Report gives country-by-country statistics on how many requests it receives for these personal, private records from governments. Below, we've ranked the top countriesânot by the total numbers of requests, but by how many user accounts are requested in relation to the total…

09/20/2013

OpenStreetMap, the work of individuals visualized

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In the continued series of meta-data-driven maps, OpenStreetMap shows the work of individuals across the online community.