"Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term forecasts, updated once per hour. So what you're seeing is close to live data."

"The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data."

"eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow - expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by the people and tools that are transforming digital culture."

"Every action, every event, every person, everything emits a certain amount of carbon. This interactive visualization examines some of those scenarios." from GE Data Visualization.

More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves.

The graphic is based on the companies' Earthsense and Trucost scores. from New Scientist.

In Running the Numbers, photographer Chris Jordan attempts to convey the vastness of modern consumption by breaking down annual statistics into more graspable quantities depicted by clever visualizations made of individual objects or groups of objects that he photographs. from seed.

3D visualization of the Sun and other nearby companion stars and planetary systems.

There are plenty of JavaScript libraries out there for rendering your otherwise plain and boring numerical data into beautiful, interactive, and informative visualizations.

a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

Unlike most models, which are compressed for viewing convenience, the planets here are also shown at their true-to-scale average distances from the Sun. That makes this page rather large - on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it's just over half a mile wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web.

This website aims to present the results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations. The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography.

This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.

immersive projection design

from Six Revisions.

High-quality curation + aggregation.

We make tiny choices every day. Those choices become habits, and those habits develop into behaviors. your.flowingdata helps you record these choices.

Tori's eye is a Twitter visualization tool, inspired by papercraft and origami. It's a visual and technical experiment implemented using only standard XHTML/CSS and Javascript.

MFA Design | Media Arts UCLA

one of the core skills for a new generation of web workers will be data analysis.

Complex visualizations evolve with usage, cultural standards and the data being processed. We have to be willing to admit the failures of some types of graphs and use new formats which are more apt for the medium.

a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations

a creative collective specializing in map, icon, and information design.

animated flash charts & maps for web applications.

what's popular on wikipedia.

from flowing data.

zoetrope and access to temporal information. from technology review.

fiber-optic submarine cable systems.

porting the processing visualization language to javascript, using the canvas element. by john resig.

selected works of paul prudence.

horizontal bar, timeline, sparklines. from a list apart.

combining strong visual appeal with effective presentation of information.

contemporary american culture through the austere lens of statistics.

from smashing magazine.