Fox News Needs New Chart Maker Leave it to Fox News to use a chart in its unemployment report to show the 0.4 percent drop as being no change from October to November. Lying or incompetence? They should be proud of neither. Read more More
So Who Is Occupy Wall Street? There’s been a great deal of dismissive language surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protesters and their national offshoots. The question remains: Who is an OWS protester? Some analysis begins to paint a better picture… Read more More
What a Week of Check-Ins on Foursquare Looks Like Last week, Foursquare passed one billion check-ins. To celebrate, they took a week’s worth of check-in data and turned it into a small slice of data visualization porn. Watch the ebb and flow of check-ins throughout the world. Read more More
VIDEO: The Connected States of America The Connected States of America is a data visualization project between MIT and AT&T which maps out connected communities based on anonymized mobile phone data. So fascinating! Read more More
Where are the Fish? Apparently in Our Bellies David McCandless made a data visualization comparing the Atlantic Ocean fishing stocks in 1900 and in 2000. Amazing what just 100 years of commercialized fishing will do, right? In 2000 there are almost no fish in the North Atlantic! Read more More
Weird: Apple’s Retail Store is the Most Photographed Attraction in NYC Based on photos uploaded to Flikr, Eric Fischer determined that the NYC Apple Retail Store on Fifth Ave. is the most popular attraction in the city. Apple fanboys really need to stop padding the stats. Read more More