| 10x10 | Jonathan Harris | visualization | “10x10” is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. | 2004 |
| Anemone | Ben Fry | visualization | Using the process of organic information design to visualize the changing structure of a web site, juxtaposed with usage information. | 2000 |
| Apartment | Martin Wattenberg | visualization | “Apartment” is a series of closely related works exploring the relation between language and space, building 2D and 3D “apartments” in response to the viewer’s typing. | 2001 |
| Aspen Moviemap | Michael Naimark | visualization | The first interactive “Moviemap” was produced at MIT in the late 1970s in Aspen, Colorado. | 1978 |
| Bio Mapping | Christian Nold | visualization | People re-explore their local area by walking the neighborhood with a device that records the wearer’s Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), and on their return a map is created which visualizes points of high and low arousal. | 2004 |
| Carnivore | Alexander Galloway/RSG | visualization | “Carnivore” is a surveillance tool for data networks. | 2001 |
| citymurmur.org | Giorgio Caviglia, Marco Quaggiotto, Donato Ricci, Gaia Scagnetti | visualization | “CityMurmur” aims at addressing maps and diagrams not as passive representation of realities but as tools for interpretation and action. | 2009 |
| Color Code | Martin Wattenberg | visualization | The artwork is an interactive map of more than 33,000 words. Each word has been assigned a color based on the average color of images found by a search engine. | 2005 |
| Copernica | Martin Wattenberg | visualization | Visualizes a sampling of work from the NASA Art Program. | 2001 |
| Darfur | John Maeda | visualization | Simple text-based visualization of dead in Darfur. | 2006 |
| Gapminder | Hans Rosling | visualization | “Gapminder” unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. | 2006 |
| History Flow | Martin Wattenberg | visualization | “History Flow” is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. | 2003 |
| Illuminated Averages | Jim Campbell | visualization | “Illuminated Averages” are a series of images displayed in light boxes in which each image is created by averaging all of the frames of a moving sequence. | 2000 |
| Mark Lombardi | Mark Lombardi | visualization | Six years before his death Lombardi switched to the pencil diagrams of crime and conspiracy networks. | 1994 |
| Moodstats | K10K | visualization | “Moodstats” is an application that allows you to quickly record & rate how your day has been in six different categories. | 2003 |
| Napoleon's March | Charles Joseph Minard | visualization | This map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. | 1869 |
| Newsmap | Marcos Weskamp | visualization | “Newsmap” is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. | 2004 |
| New York Talk Exchange | Aaron Koblin | visualization | “New York Talk Exchange” illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of AT&T long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world. | 2008 |
| Pockets Full of Memories | George LeGrady | visualization | “Pockets Full of Memories” is an interactive installation that consists of a data collection station where the public takes a digital image of an object, adds descriptive keywords, and rates its properties using a touchscreen. | 2003 |
| SmartMoney Map of the Market | Martin Wattenberg | visualization | The “Map of the Market” can show the changing stock prices of over 500 publicly-traded companies on a single screen. | 1998 |
| Stock Market Planetarium | Joshua Portway and Lise Autogena | visualization | Audiences are immersed in a world of real-time stock market activity, represented as the night sky, full of stars that glow as trading takes place on particular stocks. | 2000 |
| TextArc | Brad Paley | visualization | “TextArc” is a visual represention of an entire text on a single page. | 2002 |
| Jason Salavon | Jason Salavon | visualization | Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. | 1997 |
| The Dumpster | Golan Levin | visualization | “The Dumpster” is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. | 2006 |
| The Most Wanted Paintings | Komar and Melamid | visualization | “The Most Wanted Paintings”, as well as “The Least Wanted Paintings”, reflect the artists’ interpretation of a professional market research survey about aesthetic preferences and taste in painting. | 1995 |
| The Secret Lives of Numbers | Golan Levin | visualization | Determines the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million. | 2002 |
| The Shape of Song | Martin Wattenberg | visualization | The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see the shape of any musical composition available on the Web. | 2001 |
| The Sheep Market | Aaron Koblin | visualization | “The Sheep Market” is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers using Amazon’s “Mechanical Turk” platform. | 2007 |
| The Smaller Picture | Kevan Davis | visualization | An emergent art project visualizes collective drawings by the online community. | 2002 |
| The Whale Hunt | Jonathan Harris | visualization | An experiment in storytelling. Photographs are presented in a framework that tells the moment-to-moment story of a whale hunt. | 2007 |
| They Rule | Josh On | visualization | “They Rule” allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004. | 2004 |
| United Shapes of America (Maps Drawn by Las Vegas Teenagers) | Kim Dingle | visualization | An oil painting showing individual maps of the US as drawn by a group of teenagers. | 1991 |
| Valence | Ben Fry | visualization | This piece is a visual representation of the algorithm most commonly used for genome searches. | 2002 |
| Visual Thesaurus | Thinkmap | visualization | The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. | 1997 |
| Visualization of Flight Patterns | Aaron Koblin | visualization | Data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density. | 2005 |
| We Feel Fine | Jonathan Harris | visualization | Every few minutes, “We Feel Fine” searches newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. | 2005 |
| Wegzeit | Dietmar Offenhuber | visualization | “Wegzeit” is a project about Los Angeles and how it is transformed when brought to relative space. | 2002 |
| Worldprocessor | Ingo Günther | visualization | “Worldprocessor” is a series of painted globes reflecting data available and valid at the time of their origin. | 1988 |
| Zipdecode | Ben Fry | visualization | geographic mapping of zipcodes | 2004 |
| Digg Labs | Stamen Design | visualization | Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities. | 2006 |
| Trulia Hindsight | Stamen Design | visualization | Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. | 2007 |
| Computational Information Design | Ben Fry | text | Ben Fry’s MIT PhD Thesis. | 2004 |
| InfoVis Tests | Bradford Paley | text | What makes something “Information Visualization?” | 2008 |
| Information Visualization | Colin Ware | text | “Information Visualization: Perception for Design” explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. | 2004 |
| Seeing is believing: Information visualization and the debate over global warming | David Womack | text | David Womack on visualizing climate change. | 2006 |
| The Power of Maps | Denis Wood | text | Denis Wood unmasks the map for what it is: a communication tool imbedded in culture, history, selected perspectives and bias. | 1992 |
| Visual Explanations | Edward Tufte | text | “Visual Explanations” centers on dynamic data—information that changes over time. | 1997 |
| Envisioning Information | Edward Tufte | text | “Envisioning Information” explores information visualization with an emphasis on maps and cartography. | 1990 |
| The Visual Display of Quantitative Information | Edward Tufte | text | “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information. | 1983 |
| Beautiful Evidence | Edward Tufte | text | | 2006 |
| Metaphors We Live By | George Lakoff and Mark Johnson | text | Metaphor is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. | 1980 |
| System Esthetics | Jack Burnham | text | Burnham describes a new form of art, centered not around materiality but around relationships between people and their environment. | 1968 |
| The Agency of Mapping (from Mappings by Denis Cosgrove) | James Corner | text | Corner writes about mapping as a critical practice situated in a cultural context. | 1999 |
| Else/Where: Mapping | Janet Abrams & Peter Hall | text | “Else/Where: Mapping” explores the importance of maps as aids to navigation, understanding, and cultural representation. | 2006 |
| The Value of Visualization | Jarke van Wijk | text | Van Wijk explains the value of visualization as a science, a technology, and as art. | 2008 |
| A Marginal System: Collecting (from “The System of Objects”) | Jean Baudrillard | text | Excerpt from “The System of Objects” dealing with collecting. | 1968 |
| The System of Objects | Jean Baudrillard | text | “The System of Objects” offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. | 1968 |
| The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art | Lev Manovich | text | Manovich describes data art as a method for bringing those things outside the scale of human perception into the realm of our experience, considering it “anti-sublime”, in contrast to for instance Romantic art, which considered the sublime unrepresentable. | 2002 |
| Database as Symbolic Form | Lev Manovich | text | Manovich describes a database aesthetic. | 2001 |
| Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics | Martin Wattenberg | text | Wattenberg writes about data visualization that goes beyond scientific analysis aiming instead to be seen as expressive/conceptual/critical. | 2007 |
| Critical Visualization | Peter Hall | text | Peter Hall takes a critical look at visualization as a science, a technology, and an art, following the model proposed by Jarke van Wijk. | 2008 |
| Information Graphics | Robert Harris | text | A compendium of information graphic techniques. | 2000 |
| Mythologies | Roland Barthes | text | In this collection of essays, Barthes analyses the symbolism and mythologies inherent in the popular culture of the time. | 1972 |
| Melancholy Objects (from “On Photography”) | Susan Sontag | text | Sontag describes photography as producing artifacts that have the status of found object, simultaneously functioning as art and documentation. | 1977 |
| On Photography | Susan Sontag | text | Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. | 1977 |
| Aesthetics of Information Visualization | Warren Sack | text | Sack analyzes information visualization based on the aesthetics of the sublime, the 'anti-sublime', and the aesthetics of administration or governance. | 2007 |
| Businessweek—The Power of the Visual | Ben Fry | presentation | Fry talks about Processing as a solution for making small tools to answer questions about data. It enables rapid prototyping—building something in to ask a question about the data, and building something else in response to the previous outcome. | 2008 |
| Democratizing Visualization (IDEA 2008) | Fernanda Viegas | presentation | Viegas talks about leveling the playing field to creating data visualization with new tools, such as IBM’s Many Eyes. | 2006 |
| Patterns & Sensemaking | George Siemens | presentation | Siemens explains the role of visualization as sensemaking. | 2007 |
| Hans Rosling at TED | Hans Rosling | presentation | Hans Rosling demonstrates Gapminder at TED. | 2006 |
| Jonathan Harris at TED | Jonathan Harris | presentation | Jonathan Harris presents his work and philosophy at TED. | 2007 |
| Essential ActionScript 3.0 | Colin Moock | text | | 2007 |
| Processing: A Programming Handbook for Designers and Artists | Casey Reas and Ben Fry | text | | 2007 |
| Ask E.T. | Edward Tufte | general reference | | |
| Gallery of Information Visualization | Michael Friendly | general reference | | |
| Information Aesthetics | Andrew Vande Moere | general reference | | |
| InfoVis.net | | general reference | | |
| Many Eyes | IBM | general reference | | |
| Parsons Info-Vis Database | Arno Klein | general reference | | |
| Processing | Casey Reas and Ben Fry | general reference | | |
| Swivel | | general reference | | |
| UC Berkeley Visualization Lab | | general reference | | |
| Visual Complexity | Manuel Lima | general reference | | |
| Worldmapper | | general reference | “Worldmapper” is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. | |
| Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester | | data source | | |
| Bay Area public transit schedules data | Michal Migurski | data source | | |
| Biomapping data | Christian Nold | data source | | |
| CIA World Factbook Online | | data source | | |
| CLUI Land Use Database | | data source | | |
| DayLife API | | data source | | |
| Digg API | | data source | | |
| Environment XML Datastreams | | data source | | |
| Flickr API | | data source | | |
| Freebase API | | data source | | |
| Geo-Names | | data source | | |
| Google APIs | | data source | | |
| GovTrack | | data source | | |
| Mapping Globalization Transaction Database | | data source | | |
| MetaCarta Labs: Geospatial Parsing APIs | | data source | | |
| National Climatic Data Center | | data source | | |
| Trulia API | | data source | | |
| University of Dayton Temperature Data Archive | | data source | | |
| United Nations Statistics Division | | data source | | |
| US Census Bureau: International Data Base (IDB) | | data source | | |
| US DOT: National Bridge Inventory | | data source | | |
| We Feel Fine API | Jonathan Harris | data source | | |
| Weather Channel API | | data source | | |
| Wikipedia Datadump | | data source | | |
| Worldmapper Data Sources | | data source | | |
| Yahoo! TagMaps API | | data source | | |
| Arc Diagrams | Martin Wattenberg | visualization method | | 2002 |
| Chromograms | Martin Wattenberg | visualization method | | 2007 |
| Hyperbolic Tree Visualization | John Lamping, Ramana Rao, and Peter Pirolli | visualization method | | 1995 |
| Matrix Charts | Martin Wattenberg | visualization method | | |
| Network Diagrams | Martin Wattenberg | visualization method | | |
| Periodic Table of Visualization Methods | | visualization method | | |
| Sankey Diagrams | Uni Weimar | visualization method | | 2005 |
| Sparklines | Edward Tufte | visualization method | | 2004 |
| Second Generation Tag Clouds | Joe Lamantia | visualization method | | 2006 |
| Treemaps | Ben Shneiderman | visualization method | | 2001 |