We ran into a data set and there we got upshot

December 22, 2014 8:38 AM

Flowing Data's kind-of annual entry into the "best of" season: Their picks for best data visualisations of 2014.

The highlighted projects:

1. The New York Times' new visualisation site, The Upshot
2. Visualising Algorithms, by Mike Bostock (Metafilter post)
3. The Massachusets Bay Transit Authority, as visualised by Mike Barry and Brian Card (Metafilter post)
4. Selfiecity by Lev Manovitch, Moritz Stefaner and team
5. A climate change map by Enigma.io
6. Floodwatch, a Chrome extension by the Office for Creative Research and Ashkhan Soltani to track the advertisements which were shown to you
7. Spurious Connections by Tyler Vigen (Metafilter post)
8. Spaxels, drone light painting by the Ars Electronica Futurelab
9. Places of birth and death of notable people, plotted over time
10. A visual exploration of refugee igrations vased on United Nations data by Hyperakt and Ekene Ijeoma

Previous years:
2013 Year in Review
Best of 2011 (Metafilter post)
Best of 2010
Best of 2009
Best of 2008 (Metafilter post)

posted by frimble (2 comments total)

Thanks. I love this stuff.
posted by Dashy at 4:48 PM on December 22, 2014

Used to be lots more of this back in the day; it was full o'designers of the newer, braver graphic design. Selfiecity is an interesting control surface. Thanks for the post!
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:50 PM on December 24, 2014