Category Archives: Visualizations

Time-lapse Video Visualizations

Most viewed Wikipedia article by day (Jan – July 2020) – [VIDEO]

Visualizations

DJ Earworm Mashback: 2009 vs 2019 [VIDEO]

DJ Earworm’s latest mashup featuring 10 songs from 2009 mashed up with 10 songs from 2019

  • Lady Gaga – Pokerface vs Ava Max – Sweet but Psycho
  • Flo Rida – Right Round vs Lil Nas X – Old Town Road
  • MGMT – Kids vs Billie Eilish vs Bad Guy
  • Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow vs BTS – Boy with Luv
  • Kid Cudi – Day ‘N’ Nite vs DJ Snake/Cardi B/Ozuna – Taki Taki
  • Taylor Swift – Love Story vs Taylor Swift – You Need to Calm Down
  • Kanye West – Heartless vs Drake/Meek Mill – Going Bad
  • Miley Cyrus – Party in the USA vs Halsey – Without Me
  • Justin Bieber – One Less Lonely Girl vs Justin Bieber w/ Ed Sheeran – I Don’t Care
  • Beyonce – Single Ladies vs Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next
Travel Video Visualizations

Bondi-to-Manly – [HYPERLAPSE]

Superb hyperlapse by David Fanner of Guardian Australia, on his four day 80km hike around Sydney’s city harbour.

More on the making of the hyperlapse at Bondi to Manly.

Art Time-lapse Video Visualizations

Reddit Place – [TIME-LAPSE]

On April Fools’ Day 2017, a social experiment was launched in the form of a subreddit called “place”. It featured a collaborative pixel art canvas, where a user could place a pixel every five minutes (the timer was temporarily ten and twenty minutes for a few hours on April 1).

Visualizations

Top 15 Best Global Brands Ranking (2000-2018) – [VISUALIZATION]

Visualizations

DJ Earworm’s eclectic compilation of 2018’s top sounds has just dropped.
Featuring: Ariana Grande – No Tears Left to Cry Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next Bazzi – Mine Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line – Meant to Be BlocBoy JB & Drake – Look Alive Bruno Mars & Cardi B – Finesse Camila Cabello – Never Be the Same Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny and J. Balvin – I Like It Childish Gambino – This is America Drake – God’s Plan Drake – In My Feelings Drake – Nice for What Dua Lipa – New Rules Ella Mai – Boo’d Up Halsey – Bad at Love Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams Khalid & Normani – Love Lies Maroon 5 & Cardi B – Girls Like You Marshmello & Bastille – Happier Post Malone – Better Now Post Malone & Ty Dolla Sign – Psycho Travis Scott & Drake – Sicko Mode XXXTentacion – SAD! Zedd Feat. Maren Morris and Grey – The Middle 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood
Art Visualizations

Sailor Tattoos – [VISUALIZED]

Lucy Bellwood’s beautiful visualization “The Art of the Sailor” outlines the meanings of sailor tattoos.

Sailor tattoos

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(via boingboing)

Infographic Visualizations

Locked Up in America – [INFOGRAPHIC]

There are over 2.3 million Americans behind bars. The Prison Policy Initiative’s pie chart below illustrates the distribution of this vast population across federal and state prisons.

The American criminal justice system holds more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 76 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories.

Art Graphs and Charts Visualizations

2015 NYT Year in Visual Stores and Graphics – [VISUALIZATION]

2015 has been a breakthrough year for the New York Times in terms of the breath and reach of its storytelling techniques. Whether it’s through data visualizations or maps, we’ve seen an increase in the scope and breath of graphics to drive narrative and explanation. The news organization has gathered together some of its best examples in 2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics.

My favorites of each category are below:

Visual features

The Dawn Wall – El Capitan’s Most Unwelcoming Route

Longform Stories

Buying Power – The Families Funding The 2016 Presidential Election

Data-Driven Articles

What Drives Gun Sales: Terrorism,Politics and Calls for Restrictions

Maps

The World According to China

Motion Graphics and Video Stories

Three Hours of Terror in Paris, Moment by Moment

Data Visualization

TThe Flight of Refugees Around the Globe

Politics Video Visualizations

Military and Civilian Deaths of World War II – [VISUALIZATION]

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary examining the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war.

Neil Halloran’s film below explores the numbers to provide a perspective and context on the military and civilian deaths in this conflict and others. It highlights the massive lost of life incurred by Germany, The Soviet Union and China during this time.

For the full interactive visualizations, check out fallen.io.