Map: The world divided up by nearest airport - http://goo.gl/A3VYrH

(see also, United States of Voronoi)

How to make your tables less terrible, in a gif. http://t.co/qP6ADkmlb9 h/t @esagara
— Lena Groeger (@lenagroeger) April 2, 2014

Map: Every building in the Netherlands heat-mapped by age (nearly 10 million buildings) - http://goo.gl/91n9zC

(starts zoomed in on Amsterdam; via Sebastiaan de With)

Retweet:

An enormous contribution to the art of scaling by placing objects of known sizes in the graphic. @thejefflarson pic.twitter.com/RrLRStvYvF
— Edward Tufte (@EdwardTufte) June 28, 2013

Video: on the mechanics of online advertising - http://cmsummit.com/behindthebanner
(2m0s; specifically display ads; via @torrez)

Map: the most common British surnames on a zoomable map - http://goo.gl/Yyb05

(via MeFi) 

Today: putting today in perspective - http://hereistoday.com
(via @rands)

Video: a year's worth of Foursquare check-ins, showing the daily pulse of New York and Tokyo - http://vimeo.com/62289901



(1m06s, no sound)

Visualisation: one week's worth of tweets between Twitter employees, press play - http://goo.gl/r5KGK
(Santiago Ortiz)

Map: a slightly interactive map of ocean floor cables, this year in an olde world style - http://goo.gl/3EF3F

(via Laughing Squid; previously)

Essay: On design and using abstract models to visualise what's going on. Weighty, but interactive - http://goo.gl/kDjwx 

(5500 words, "Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction", Bret Victor; via iA) 

Is it possible to map prejudice? Answer: sort of. Floating Sheep have put together a map of US states shaded by relative number of post-election racist tweets.

(source, interactive map; geotagged tweets only, adjusted for twitter usage by state; via)

If you type "facebook report" into Wolfram Alpha and sign in, Wolfram now provides an analytics deep dive into your Facebook usage and friend network data.

(more info; via The Verge)

Video: Olympic rings as data visualisation by continent - http://vimeo.com/45658298

(1m36s; via; source)

Visualisation: a flowchart of all energy supplied and consumed in the UK

(2010 data; via; source)

Video: 62 years of F1 car design in a neon silhouette timelapse - http://vimeo.com/43233380



(1m0s, Rufus Blacklock; via Engadget; also static infographic)

Map: the popular routes through New York based on 10,000 geotagged tweets - http://goo.gl/gLnOs

(Eric Fischer via Stowe Boyd; other cities; previously)

Video: Little Red Riding Hood as infographic - http://vimeo.com/3514904



(2m59s; Tomas Nilsson)

Visualisation: "The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook" - http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
(click anywhere on the chart to see shifts in default privacy settings since 2005)

Video: timelapse of all nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1998, in WarGames aesthetic - http://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY



(14m25s, Isao Hashimoto)