It’s a sensation, a feeling, most Irish people will have experienced at some time in their lives. It’s a saying we’ll all have heard by those in a delicate way on a Sunday or Monday morning. Eoin Whelehan’s visualization documents brilliantly the feelings associated with this experience.
(h/t broadsheet)
The folks over at the UK’s main air traffic service NATS have provided a superb example of the daily complexity and volumes of air traffic across the UK and Europe.
The visualization provides for
a unique view of the holding stacks over London and how they are a fundamental part of the Heathrow operation, providing the constant flow of traffic that makes it the world’s busiest dual runway airport with 1,350 movements a day.
More at NATS blog.
This 2 minute stop motion time-lapse captures the incredibly intricate and time consuming process of creating a large-format illustration of a Parisian Neighborhood. Created by Guillaume, and taking 75 hours in total, it showcases the astonishing attention to detail and patience it takes to create such a piece of work.
(h/t broadsheet)
Will Gallia’s superb visualization of 562,145 journeys on the London Underground, representing 5% of Oyster card trips during a week in 2009.
(h/t broadsheet)
The UK air traffic control firm (NATS) have crunched their data on transatlantic flights to produce a stunning visualisation of the “North Atlantic Skies”. The animation covers a typical summer’s day in 2013.
Some statistics from NATS blog post:
(h/t boingboing)
The visualization below, from the Oxford Internet Institute, attempts to simplify the world’s network of submarine fiber-optic cables into a commonly understood subway map.
Each stop on the subway is a node (a place where data is sent and received like an Internet service provider) assigned to a country. The map is generated by taking node data from cablemap.info which“aims to provide a global overview of the network, and a general sense of how information traverses our planet,”.
A higher resolution image is available at geography.oii.ox.ac.uk.
(h/t slate.com)
A different kind of Periodic table…
(h/t broadsheet)
FlowingData have visualized the American Film Institute’s 100 most memorable quotes from American cinema. Very clever!
(via flowingdata)
The Economist’s superb visualization of 2014’s upcoming elections.
Today's #Dailychart shows that 2014 is a big year for elections worldwide http://t.co/yWNx8YldaA pic.twitter.com/2nHxds7JGG
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) January 6, 2014
(h/t sunlightfoundation.com)
The folks over at wait but why have created a fantastic series of charts representing different timescales in history. They seek to put a wide range of historical moments into a time perspective.
From the blog:
Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them.It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it…To try to grasp some perspective, I mapped out the history of time as a series of growing timelines—each timeline contains all the previous timelines (colors will help you see which timelines are which).
For the full series of charts, head to wait but why.
(h/t boingboing)
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