Jun 22

Beautiful Data Visualizations from PBS’ "America Revealed"

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Just as the GoPro camera and YouTube have enabled us regular viewers to see things from a perspective we’ve never seen before, aerial photography, satellite imagery, number-crunching computers and GPS trackers can help us understand data flows too complicated to easily imagine.

The fantastic PBS miniseries America Revealed, which “explores the hidden patterns and rhythms that make America work,” makes stunning use of data-viz techniques to stimulate the eye-candy part of your brain while teaching you something. Pictured up top is what our internet access looks like (image rotated to fit). Below is “the route of a family-run combine harvesting business as they zig zag across the U.S.”

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These pinpricks of light represent U.S. job losses (rotated to fit).

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