This summer’s floods were off the charts. This front-page featured map steps through a week of flood activity. Photographs of the locations are placed on pins in the map.

Alexander Hamilton’s 206-year-old home, the Grange, was moved to a nearby park. This graphic walks through the arduous process to move the historic landmark in a crowded city.

New additions to the website. Check em out!

Experimental Form
A collection of things made this past semester.

Box Office Revenue
First published piece in the New York Times.

Listening History
Official portfolio page for the Last.fm Listening History diagrams.

Daylight Calendars
A series of posters done to visualize daylight patterns for different areas of the world.

Stream Graph Paper
An academic paper on the aesthetics of stacked graphs, written with Martin Wattenberg.

An update on the global typography. I’ve filled in the western hemisphere, and extruded each country in respect to their population per sq. mile. Because the extrusions are essentially cone shaped, I’m actually extruding by the square root of the population per sq. mile. This also emphasizes the differences between most countries while making the sharp peaks not quite as harsh.

The result of printing…
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I’d like to share a work in progress. I’ve been tossing around ideas of what to do with our 3D printer, what might be interesting and engaging. I eventually arrived at this concept.

Each country is represented in their own language, the type creating the shape of the country, each done by hand. I hope that the hand-craft aesthetic of the type is an interesting juxtaposition with the process and material. Each country will be extruded outward a different distance, to correspond to some data set, such as population. Perhaps a series of these could account for multiple data sets.

This post is just to show the proof of concept. I’m working on a piece of software to generate the files to send to the 3D printer. Read on for how I’m doing this.

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I’m taking a class with Karen Moyer on Mapping and Diagramming, presenting and communicating information both seen and unseen.

This brief assignment was to create an aid to a friend visiting from out of town. He can get to your house, but you need to get him to meet you outside of class, when you are finished.