In this, my first Visualization Deconstructed post, I'm expanding the scope to examine one of the most popular contemporary visualization techniques: animation of geospatial data over time. The beauty ...

New York City has a pulse–a certain rhythm of human activity that we can sense but not see. This rhythm jumped out at Foursquare designer Matt Healy while he was playing with a slice of the company’s ...

Most of us know that “the” is the most common word in the English language. But what are some other high-frequency words, both long and short? This amazing animated data bubble visualization by ...