Ah, can you smell that? Worldmapper just bloats up my chosen home once I select ‘non-religious’ as a deformation criteria. USA ain’t bad either and china, well… wow!

One of the key issues in non-photorealistic imagery is the process of selective abstraction, a characteristic shared with data-mining and – as shown wonderfully in this article by Robert Kosara – information graphics. The level of abstraction profoundly effects the interpretation of content. Fantastic article.

NASA has a must-see visualization of the flow currents in our oceans. Must see. As in… go see it. Now. In HD (at the very bottom of the page). Beautiful, moving stuff. via FlowingData.

Flowing Data correctly highlights a revealing infographic by Krisztina Szucs. Films of a certain genre (rant: animation isn’t a genre! end rant) are laid out on a bar according to their RottenTomatoes rating. This point is the source of a lightbeam which illuminates the film’s budget on one end and the profits on the other. An appealing way to present a matrix of information. Like!

It’s not often that data visualization, dinosaurs and participatory science all come together, so today’s post is uniquely cool. Head over to eBird to admire the results and take part yourself.

I wrote a while back about the top 1% of American wealth owners, and the 10% who believe they belong to that exclusive club. Well now, thanks to the New York Times – king of meaningful interactive info-graphics – there’s no guessing to it anymore, just check on your own.

On average, you need an annual income of $383,001 to belong to the exclusive 1% and the 50% line is at $50,742.

fakeisthenewreal has a wonderful page of scaled line drawings of public subway systems from cities around the world. Surprising: the size and sprawl and the felt character of the respective cities via what look to be simple scribbles.

Transportation has such an impact on how you experience a city. It would be interesting to see how you could reflect further characteristics… ie. the NewYork system of local and express trains vs. the one-track-leads-to-all-destinations systems you often encounter in Germany. Payment systems are also profound… NYC is a gateway – once inside your inside. Berlin has an identification system… you can be controlled at any time.