This beautiful diagram, created by Bryan Christie Design for an IEEE Spectrum special report on Mars packs a lot of data into a small space, down to the specifics of the name of each mission.

NYTimes guy on the design of infographics which have a spatial data component.

dynamic generation of trees implemented in javascript

D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction.

The open-source multi-modal trip planner, i.e. a routing engine for street networks or potentially any other spatially enabled graph

Protovis is a very powerful visualization toolkit. Part of what makes it special is that it is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser without the need for any plugins. Its clever use of JavaScript's language features makes it very elegant, but it can also be confusing to people who are not familiar with functional programming concepts and the finer points of JavaScript. This multi-part tutorial shows how to create a visualization (my interactive Presidents Chart) in Protovis, and explains the concepts that are involved along the way.

"Pie charts are perhaps the most ubiquitous chart type; they can be found in newspapers, business reports, and many other places. But few people actually understand the function of the pie chart and how to use it properly. In addition to issues stemming from using too many categories, the biggest problem is getting the basic premise: that the pie slices sum up to a meaningful whole."

"despite recent efforts to create a suite of thematic mapping approaches, Google Earth is a terrible environment for presenting many kinds of thematic maps. I’d go so far as to say that the 3D prism maps and 3D graduated symbol maps we see popping up in Google Earth are pure chart junk, of the kind Tufte warned us about repeated for past 25 years."

These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording session notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings.

open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.

Finds the names of mountains or points of interest within a photography. Uses a database containing names and GPS data. With the given viewpoint (the point from which the picture was taken) and two known mountains on the picture, gipfel can compute all parameters needed to compute the positions of other mountains on the picture.

visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots. These primitives are called marks, and each mark encodes data visually through dynamic properties such as color and position.

"Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job"

chart from Russel Investments shows the current state of the economy and what it typically is according to seven key indicators such as credit risk, corporate debt, and market volatility. The blue bars provide a "typical" range, and the orange pointers show the current values. Above each orange pointer is an arrow that indicates whether we're trending towards or away from the typical.

Infographic-style music video retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" Love the techno loop. Makes me want to dance.

The short and simple story of the credit crisis, told through animated infographics.

Prototype of a new web-centric interface for nytimes, displays summaries of new articles in a grid based on a per-category basis. Taking a cue from the simplicity of the iPhone interface. An easier on the eyes way to quickly check out all the content NYTimes has to offer. But where will the ads go?

Enumerates a number of experimental javascript libraries which can be used to visualize data - most of which utilize the firefox-only canvas element

Hurricane tracking and visualization. A rich set of information is displayed in a single dashboard-style information screen. Displays historical information as well.

continuously updated graphical dashboard showing data about the upcoming 2008 presidential election. Dynamically tracks poll results as well as "mentions" in the main stream media, google search results, blogs, and twitter. Includes historical information as well.

Searchable gallery of network visualization projects

Using the revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives are doing, and thus help reduce corruption, ensure greater transparency and accountability

Web visualization toolkit. Simply register, upload your data in tab delimieted form, and then explore various visualization methods.

The CityEngine is focused on the procedural modeling of buildings and brings together the term 'Automatic Architecture' that is becoming increasingly common in the industry.

abstract visualization of alternative datasets such as source code, blogs, or spam messages. Includes Malwarez, visualization of viruses, and Spam Plants, visualizations of different spam sources as organisms.

Allows for the dynamic generation of charts through data encoded into the query string

Extensive list of links/screenshots of apps demonstrating new and interesting information visualization techniques.

Map + breakdown by category of all of the homicides in LA this year.

Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code.

a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes.

chronotext is a growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time

Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries...

a particle system physics engine for processing. Just a simulation, it tells you where particles are and it's your job to draw them. No collisions, you can take care of them yourself if you want!

HTML DOM Visualizer Applet using processing

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville, named after the “Dumont d’Urville,” a French scientific base in Antarctica.

The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.

I write computer programs to create graphic images. With an algorithmic goal in mind, I manipulate the work by finely crafting the semantics of each program. Specific results are pursued, although occasionally surprising discoveries are made.

The JCCKit is a small (< 100Kb) library and a very flexible framework for creating scientific charts and plots.JCCKit is written for the JDK™ 1.1.8 platform (except of a Graphics2D renderer).