Video Archive:
Wealth Inequality in America
4 Mar 2013Not much new here – but it is well explained. Personally, instead of focusing on a subjective comparison of what people thought would be “fair”, I would have liked to see more visuals illustrating how this has changed over the past few decades.
Helical Orbits
26 Dec 2012Oskar Fischinger
18 Dec 2012I dabble in VJ’ing, and it’s amazing what you can do with todays tools, like Resolume. But take a look at what Oskar Fischinger did back in 1938 with pieces of paper hanging from wires in his synesthetic interpretation of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. Amazing. Actually, it’s kind of embarrassing. We are so spoiled.
Getting Lost
31 Oct 2012Feels like a music video for a slogan, using meaningless animated infographics.
Getting Lost from Marco Bagni – LostConversation on Vimeo.
How Much Have Olympians Improved?
In: Source: NYT Sports Video
6 Aug 2012
Eastern Europe
30 Jul 2012“Eastern Europe” doesn’t really exist anymore. In fact, it never really did in the first place, according to this videographic.
America Revealed
In: Maps US Economy Video
20 Jun 2012Prepared for a PBS-UK television show (also available on DVD), these visualizations are stunning:
Electrical grid: 
Flights: 
radio towers: 
Here’s a preview of the show:
Overfishing
11 Jun 2012http://flowingdata.com/2012/06/06/overfishing-visually-explained/A well narrated video-graphic. (via FlowingData)
Financial Times’ Graphic World
30 Mar 2012The Financial Times has created a giant videographic project in NYC’s Grand Central Station. Check out details about the installation and watch some of the videos (on business and the global economy) at http://ftgraphicworld.ft.com. Has anyone seen it yet in person?
We Need a New Pie Chart
3 Feb 2012While poking around the World Economic Forum’s website I came across this talk by Adam Bly from 2011 about the important uses of data visualization to policy makers:
Unfolding the Earth
25 Jan 2012An interesting algorithm based method of creating accurate globe projections. (via the Volume Project and NewScientist)
Mapping the earth is a classic problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have come up with methods to map the curved surface of the earth to a flat plane. The main problem is that you cannot do this perfectly, such that both the shape and size of the surface are depicted properly everywhere. This has intrigued me for a long time. Why not just take a map of a small part of the earth, which is almost perfect, glue neighboring maps to it, and repeat this until the whole earth is shown? Of course you get interrupts, but does this matter? What does such a map look like? To check this out, we developed myriahedral projections.
Greek Crisis Videographics
23 Nov 2011This jumps around a little too much for my taste – but it is a good example of using simple facts to put things in perspective.
Here’s a slightly more in depth, much more tongue-in-cheek version (from two years ago):
Finally, an even more tongue in cheek SNL skit about which god is in charge of Greek finance:
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