We live in an age where the global pool of information is increasing exponentially. Scientific publications, remote sensing data, photographs, phone-calls, online videos, blogs -- all of these things ...

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have created Wind Map, an interactive map which traces the course and speed of wind in near real-time. Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have created Wind Map ...

Back in April, we posted about the real-time wind visualization web app put together by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg of Google’s “Big Picture” research group. Given the current weather the ...

Most energy sources are visible to the naked eye: We can see the inky blackness of coal, the sheen of oil, the beam of sunlight. Wind, on the other hand, is more covert. We can hear it, sure, and ...

Last year, designers Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg brought us the “Wind Map,” an artistic visualization of wind patterns across the United States. Now their map has inspired another Web ...

Check out my WebGL-based wind power simulation demo! Let’s dive into how it works under the hood. I have an unflattering confession to make: for the last few years working at Mapbox, I avoided direct ...

Here's a view of Hurricane Isaac unlike any other you've seen so far. This comes from hint.fm, a collaboration of data-visualization stars Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. Their wind map ...

The total value of the worldwide wind energy market will grow from $74.2 billion in 2012 to $109.8 billion in 2017, according to Navigant Research. The resulting installations will almost double the ...