A curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies. By @jonkeegan
Information is Beautiful
Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
On power, aesthetics, materiality and change in data visualization
Notes from the Information+ Conference at MIT/Northeastern University, Boston.
Democratizing Data
Democratizing Data builds a community-driven data ecosystem by identifying how datasets are used and reducing barriers to accessing high-quality public data. The initiative enhances the discoverability, usability, and relevance of data for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholder communities. A suite of tools and strategic partnerships supports this work by connecting users to the data, insights, and networks needed to inform decisions and generate impact.
A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data
Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data visualization research in a checklist that can help researchers to improve their data visualization, by focusing on clarity, accessibility and design best practices.
An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer
Visual Cinnamon | Data Visualization Design & Data Art | Data made insightful, effective & beautiful through data visualization and data art
Taking imagery of bike lanes in Toronto: 60,000 photos later…
Imagery Update After a summer and fall of taking 360 imagery of bike lanes, I finished capturing street-level imagery of all the protected bike lanes in the City’s dataset. The last segment on November 8 was the final part of the new Harbord St bike lanes E of Grace St. So far, I’ve captured over…
ELI5 : What exactly is Aesthetic Visual Analysis?
I am a designer and I recently read about Netflix using an image discovery tool called AVA to generate frames from the content on their platform…
IPFS (@ipfs.tech)
🪩 Introducing matadisco.org! — a way to discover open datasets via #atproto that doesn't depend on any single institution staying online. 🕺🏼 We have more public data than ever (satellite imagery, climate models, genomic sequences), but finding it is still painfully hard. https://matadisco.org
Cosmograph: Beautiful visualization and analytics right in the browser | Cosmograph
Beautiful visualization and analytics right in the browser
New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal
William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today?
Public trees
The public tree dataset includes a listing of public trees on boulevards and public trees in parks, in the City of Vancouver and provides data on tree coordinates, species and other related characteristics. Private trees are not included in the inventory.Tree records that do not have coordinates data will not show up in the list. Data currencyThe dataset refreshes daily on weekdays. Tree attributes are updated on a regular basis but it may be several years between updates for some attributes. Priorities and resources determine how fast a change in reality is reflected in the data. The coordinates were originally provided by the 2016 Geospatial Data for City of Vancouver Street Trees project. Data accuracyTree attributes are updated on a regular basis but it may be several years for some attributes. Note: 0 value in latitude and longitude fields mean there is no related information available Websites for further informationStreet Tree BylawCity trees
