Projects and Experiments by FlowingData

Here are the results of mild insomnia and a restless mind. Some projects are maps, some are interactive, and some are applications. All of them use publicly available data, and I made all of them to learn something new.

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self-surveillance, application

Twitter application that lets you collect data about yourself via direct messages.

Growth of Walmart

map, interactive

My first interactive map using Modest Maps. Walmart's spread has been described as a virus, cancer, wildfire, and the plague.

Growth of Target

map, interactive

Second in the growth map series. Target's growth looks more opportunistic than organic.

Growth of Ross Stores

map, interactive

Growth map of Ross. As seems to be common, there is slow growth in the beginning and then a sudden boom.

Progress

advocacy, print

A graphical report on the state of the world using public data from UNdata.

Facebook Stats

infographic, print

A quick look at data from All Facebook on users, applications, and pages.

Gas Prices

statistical, interactive

Fluctuations in gas prices over the years. In 1993, the national cost per gallon was $1.07.

Twitter World

map, animated

Like Twittervision in concept, but a bit different aesthetically.

Inauguration on Twitter

map, interactive

Twitter was aflutter when President Barack Obama officially took the historic oath.

Visitr

map, animated

An open-sourced project that lets you create a live map of traffic to your site.

43things Goal Bubbles

abstract, interactive

Recently popular things on social goal-setting site 43things.

United States Poverty

map, advocacy, interactive

A look at poverty rates between 1980 to 2007 according to the US Census Bureau.

humanflows

map, migration, interactive

Worldwide migration rates over time.