| How many lines of code are there in your favorite app? |

Codebases : Millions of lines of Code is one of those visualisations that I came across which shows the massive complexity of today's modern apps and programs. Is a million lines of code a lot? how many lines are there in Windows? Facebook? Youtube? Iphone apps?

The creator, McCandless and his team use the matrix of squares to represent scale

The range is extraordinary: the average iPhone app has less than 50,000 lines of code, while Google’s entire code base is two billion lines for all services. And interestingly, the code behind machines such as fighter jets, popular video game engines fall somewhere in between these two extremes.

Created by : David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

| Tracking shares |

For online publications, it’s useful to know how people share links to articles and news via outlets such as Twitter. How does an article go from publication to viral? Does one person with a lot of Twitter followers share a link, or is getting lots of individuals to tweet the key?

In studying what people were sharing online, the New York times R&D Lab (doesn’t exist now) created Project Cascade, one of the first interactive tools to analyze how stories spread on social media. It was incredibly useful, helping the Times identify what strategies worked getting pieces to “go viral” and identifying “influencers”, but it was also beautiful and hypnotizing to watch. Importantly for a visualization, it’s stood the test of much of a decade and still looks stunning.

“ This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. While initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool and its underlying logic may be applied to any publisher or brand interested in understanding how its messages are shared. “

Created by :  Jer Thorp, Mark Hansen, and Jake Porway (NYT R&D Lab)

| Foreign Lines |

On the occasion of Valentine's Day but more importantly in the age where things are uncertain for foreigners like us, the 'We were Strangers once too' project by Times Square Arts and Urban design Forum is a bold statement of reassurance inspired by the former President Obama.The simple-yet-effective art installation in Times Square (Go check it out!) consists of 33 metal poles inscribed to represent the national origins and shifting populations of foreign-born New York City residents. The data is based on the 2015 census.

| Dotting Distance |

Beginning in 1949 and continuing through 2011, the dots representing Democrats and Republicans have gradually moved apart, building upto a very obvious divide. The gray areas indicating cooperation have gradually receded to mere wisps in recent years.

This visualization begins to trace the story or perhaps provide a possible explanation that the hyper partisan environment has stymied the legislative body's ability to come up with new solutions to fix the United States' problems - it's probably more evident today. 

Data visualized by : Mauro Martino

Source : http://www.mamartino.com/projects/rise_of_partisanship/