VoteEasy is a cool website which aims to help voters make an informed decision. It provides a lot of data about candidates in a digestible format. It also lets the voter input their own stance on key issues so that the candidate can be measured at a glance against the voter’s political leanings.

Pig 05049 is a book that visualizes all the products that a single pig ended up in. I think this is a really interesting piece. The sources of our food and other products are generally obscured and this book serves as a very honest confrontation with modern manufacturing and food industries. The results are surprising. Apparently three years of research went into the book.

This is a visualization of Lisbon’s traffic by Pedro Miguel Cruz and Penousal Machado. It uses gps data from taxis collected over a month and then condensed to show an average day. The orange areas represent traffic jams or slow moving traffic. The visualization is more beautiful than informative but with some study it could be used to determine routes to avoid problematic traffic areas.