Temperature Blanket

My friend Joe just stopped by and we were chatting about data painting and he mentioned temperature blankets. I'd never heard of these before but the premise is simple and the results lovely: Crochet a blanket using yarn colors based on temperatures, one (or two rows) per day.

henstoothhomestead.com

Crocheted blanket of temps

Day to day aspirations

While exploring eva's garden, I wandered down the path to this collection of activity trackers. Filing under dataviz

evy.garden

Tracking things by the month

Minding the gaps

New page alert. I've added a place to track all the missing months of photos on my journal. Sometimes when I'm between gigs or feeling mindless, I fill in some of these gaps.

chrisglass.com

Spreadsheet of posting gaps on a photo journal

Jason Forrest’s career chart

Followed the path to Jason’s site from the Eames quotes and I can get lost for days on his personal site. The career chart on his about / contact page offers a snapshot of his work and passions—a lovely bit of visualization.

jasonforrestftw.com

Career chart by Jason Forrest

Catherine Madden’s woven tapestry

This journey map captures a year of highs and lows in 2020, part of a workshop with Eugene Eric Kim.

catherinemadden.com

A woven textile with line charts representing the highs and lows of a year

Excel, an overlooked design tool

I've done a pretty good job of making Powerpoint look good, but this is next level stuff. / via Sidebar

bootcamp.uxdesign.cc

An infographic of a circle chart and bar chart

Gyorgy Ligeti’s Artikulation visualized by Rainer Wehinger

Donald Craig scanned the pages of visualization from the 70's and synchronized them with the music. / via @pixlpa

youtu.be

A graphical visualization of music

A great thread about music visualization

Sometimes Twitter's algorithm reveals good things. Like these tweets from Andrew Benson and the replies.

twitter.com

Sheet music visualized as a 3-D structure

Outside the box

An example of visualization through code (Be sure to click out and see more work by Mathew Aldred) / via DJ

openprocessing.org

code generated type design that visualizes Outside the Box type on a virtual box

‘My 2020 in Data (So Far)’

Giorgia Lupi documents her life during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in a data visualization. Beautiful and sad. / via Kottke

pentagram.com

Visualization of 2020

Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count

I'm on a desktop, but this is extremely well put together visualization of data

nytimes.com

Covid chart

5+ Neat Data Visualization Projects from 2008

I'm stripping out "best" and replacing it with "neat" because it feels more truthful that way (link via ux mag)

flowingdata.com

Wave visualization

President Map – Election Results 2008 – The New York Times

This interactive visualization is most excellent. The voting shifts are particularly interesting, the ability to zoom gravy. (via Michael Surtees)

elections.nytimes.com

Obama vs. McCain Electoral map

Entries for a Personal Visualization Project

Nice stuff. (via keaggy)

flowingdata.com

Visualization of drinking

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

on the mouseover (via fishea)

visual-literacy.org

Periodic table of visualization methods

Information Aesthetics

A blog for creative information visualization

web.archive.org

Chart with warm colors indicating data