Visualization Ideas

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”
— Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell

What follows are data visualizations in the idea phase. Some of these have already been done, some may have been done and I haven’t seen them. Please comment with links to these if they have been done. Thanks!

Time zones on a rotatable globe using color luminance for offsets.

World religions by country as pie charts on a map.

Streamgraph of Git commits per user in a given project.

Streamgraph of time spent by project, exported from time tracking app.

Streamgraph of actors in movies since 1900 (with smoothing).

DBPedia Ontology as zoomable circle packing.

Nested corporations (e.g. Microsoft→GitHub) as zoomable circle packing.

NPM Dependency Graph as Node-Link diagram for create-react-app & others.

Density map of Dunkin Donuts vs. Starbucks in the US (from OSM data).

Multi-line chart of infant male vs. female height & weight data.

Twitter Diplomacy Timeline (tweets & mentions by world leaders over time).

Tree visualization of source code, size and color by lines of code per file.

Map of cities by population as circles, revealing more as you pan & zoom.

Visualize train schedule in the style of Tufte, with hover interactions.

Daily updated News Topics Streamgraph using google-trends-api.

Map of population by caste in India.

Visualizations of caste by region by median income in India.

3D piece on Satellites (Low, medium, high orbit, and Lagrange points).

To-scale 3D piece on our solar system with zooming.