Images viaFrom festival information to hard-hitting news stories, data visualization is one of the most digestible formats for the web to absorb raw data. Unfortunately, for every efficient, beautifully constructed infographic, there's a whole slew of ill-conceived, inefficient, or just plain dumb graphs and charts that besmirch the good name of data viz everywhere.A new website called Dadaviz—founded by the same people who enhanced Wikipedia with WikiBrains—is beginning to aggregate the best visualizations from around the net. Tackling everything from the web's population to the global human-to-chicken ratio, these images are shining examples of accurate and artful data.
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Dadaviz CEO Jishai Zevers told FastCo.Design that modern media outlets like YouTube inspired the site's concept. "There was no equivalent to YouTube or Soundcloud for data visualization," he said. "So we decided to build one."At the moment, Dadaviz isn't quite comparable to the social content behemoths—only 17 vetted experts are currently alowed to create or submit data visualizations for the feed. However, Zevers and his team are in the process of building an algorithm that will be able to separate infographic gold from garbage. Once the sorting process has been ironed out, he plans to open Dadaviz's digital doors to the Internet-at-large, ideally making it the go-to provider for the best beautiful data. At the very least, it will become a safe place for infographic-hungry design enthusiasts to get their data fix.Check out some choice samples of Dadaviz's current visualization crop below.
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