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https://datavisualization.ch/showcases/visualizing-138-years-of-popular-science-magazine/

This data visualization piece was designed to represent the complete archive of the publication of Popular Science. It is anchored by a “molecular chain” which is made up of decade clusters from 1880 to 2000. Decade clusters contain year clusters. And year clusters contain many atoms representing single issue of the magazine. The color of the atom is extracted form the issue covers and the size of the atom is determined by the number of words in each issue.

The author also picked some words from the entire dictionary of the publication. The height of the line represents the frequency of the word. 

https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/

This visualization shows how a person’s entire day plays out based on the American Time Use Survey from 2014. 1000 Americans’ answers are included in this piece to express the routinely change to the minute. The daily activities and the transition probabilities for one activity to the other are shown.   

Data visualization can not only be used to research and analysis but also be used to help people understand something. Also in the time the author actually makes an advertise of its product.

In this piece, viewers can learn a lot about the scale and units from realistic objectives. It covers the scale range that can be seen from the electron microscopes and astronomical telescopes. The data is integrated with the texts, visualization and sound. That makes the learning process easier and interesting, which can even be understood by a primary student. People can see one interested scale with particular size of object by clicking or tapping on the unit bar that indicates a scale position. There are also options shown for a smaller and a bigger scale of object. 

https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/the-rhythm-of-food

This visualization project in collaboration with Google News Lab, study the many perspectives of food seasonality, based on 12 years of Google search data.

They use a “year clock” chart to reveal seasonal trends for food items. Each segment of the chart indicates the search interest in one of the weeks of the past 12 years, with its distance from the center showing the relative search interest, and the color indicating the year. 

This data visualization piece displays the history of Miles Davis' career and collaborations based on his recording sessions as documented by the Jazz Discography Project.

The timeline across the middle of the screen first includes more than four hundred recording sessions. Each recording session is represented by an erected short line. As all the recording sessions are arranged in the order of performing time from the left to the right, the aggregation of the lines represent high frequency of Miles’ performance. For every single event, date, place, musicians playing with Miles and their roles are noted in the screen. The moveable circles above the lines represent the nearly six hundred people who played with Miles and larger circles means more cooperation with Miles. For every single musician, his role and the different performing events are noted. On the bottom of the screen, jazz piece played at that time will appear as the event changes. 

People can feel Miles’ strength of gathering and creating. However, all the recording sessions are shown without difference. Miles’ remarkable sessions or performances are not visible from the visualization.