WIND MAP

Winds are crazy and so is this real-time map. The site that it is on, Hint.fm is a collaboration between Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, who lead Google's "Big Picture" visualization research group. The oddly paired mathmetician- designer duo combines art and design with data representation, and comes up with some very unique outcomes. Another piece they came up with is called "Web Seer." The site, which is down right now unfortunately, allows the user to enter a phrase, and see what is most commonly searched using that same phrase on Google. I did a terrible job of explaining that even after giving it a few go's, so these pictures should fill you in a lot better. (In these diagrams, the arrow thicknesses show the number of web pages for each question.)