Visual Communication

Chen Ye

Published in

HH Design

4 min readSep 23, 2015

A list of visual learning experiences

Earth Primer

Discover how Earth works through play! Earth Primer is a science book for playful people. Visit volcanoes, glaciers…

www.earthprimer.com

Explained Visually

Explained Visually (EV) is an experiment in making hard ideas intuitive inspired the work of Bret Victor's Explorable…

setosa.io

Will you find your place in the Universe?

Bend time and explore the universe with interactive animations, audio extracts and videos around the bestselling Seven…

www.sevenbrieflessons.com

Histography - Timeline of History

Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015

histography.io

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning

Let's revisit the 73-ft elevation boundary proposed previously to see how we can improve upon our intuition. Clearly…

www.r2d3.us

Green Honey

Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how perception works.

muyueh.com

Scientific Communication As Sequential Art

(The paper goes on to identify several real-life networks as small-world, and discuss the implications for dynamical…

worrydream.com

Visualizing HIV

Characterizing at the atomic level the structural and dynamic relationships between interacting macromolecules in the HIV life cycle…

hive.scripps.edu

A Visual Approach to Scientific Communication

Reflections from the SEA-PHAGES Symposium

medium.com

An Animated Look at Scientific Illustration

By Allison Y Chen | June 13, 2015Before modern film and computers, scientific phenomena were recorded with meticulous…

steamstories.com

Visualizing Algorithms

Algorithms are a fascinating use case for visualization. To visualize an algorithm, we don't merely fit data to a chart…

bost.ocks.org

SORTING - Visualizing sorting algorithms

Sorting a sequence of items is one of the pillar of Computer Science. A sorting algorithm is an algorithm that…

sorting.at

VisuAlgo - visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

This is the English (default) interface for website http://visualgo.net and http://en.visualgo.net redirects to this…

visualgo.net

Vax | Gamifying Epidemic Prevention | Home

Vax! is a puzzle-game infused with chance that was inspired by real-world challenges, infectious disease modeling, and…

vax.herokuapp.com

Visualizing MBTA Data

Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) operates the 4th busiest subway system in the U.S. after New York…

mbtaviz.github.io

Inequality and New York’s Subway

New York City has a problem with income inequality. And it's getting worse-the top of the spectrum is gaining and the…

projects.newyorker.com

Inequality & Mass Transit in the Bay Area

A recent feature in The New Yorker juxtaposed New York City's subway stops with their residents' incomes. Like NYC, San…

dangrover.github.io

United States gun deaths in 2013

U.S. gun deaths 2010 & 2013: you haven't seen numbers like this before: http://guns.periscopic.com/ by @periscopic

guns.periscopic.com

The Fallen of World War II - Data-driven documentary about war & peace

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the…

www.fallen.io

Plan a ride with Surface, Directions, and Turf.js

View full-screen demoCity bikeshares are a great way to get around if your town has them. But they're only convenient…

www.mapbox.com

The World's Wifi

This is what more than 900 million Wifi routers and cell phone towers looks like. That's one router for every 8 people…

www.mapbox.com

The Foursquare Time Machine

See where you've been and where you might go next. Plot your Foursquare history, discover new places and create an…

foursquare.com

Tweetping

Check out Twitter activity in realtime

www.tweetping.net

SVS: Perpetual Ocean

This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and…

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person

This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population…

www.coopercenter.org

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

Titan That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it…

joshworth.com

TIFU by using Math.random()

By Betable CTO, Mike Malone