Data Visualization Shows Camera Market Dwarfed by Smartphones
James Eagle created a fascinating data visualization that lays bare the dominance of the smartphone market over the camera.
A Collective Portrait of Paris Made with a Sea of Instagram Photos
What does Paris look like when seen through the eyes and lenses of thousands of unrelated photographers? That's what researcher and artist Moritz Stefaner explores in Multiplicity, a mesmerizing new art installation that's on display in France's capital.
Colorful Explosions That Show How Viral Photos Spread on Facebook
Want to see what it looks like for a photo to go viral on Facebook? Check out these visualizations by San Francisco-based studio Stamen Design, which took three of the most shared images on the social networking service -- Marvin the Martian (visualized above), Famous Failures, and Ab Fab London, all shared by George Takei -- and created a visualization using the data from the hundreds of thousands of shares.