As Flowing Data's Nathan Yau remarked earlier this week: "I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas. They rarely tweet, but when they do, it's usually ...

The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with ...

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 ...

Around a year ago, a pair of Google researchers visualized the wind patterns throughout the United States. The interactive map was gorgeous, with wispy white lines swirling around the country in real ...

Wind power started in California in 1981 when the Altamont wind farm in Alameda County was built as a reaction to the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s. But now, as a new map released Thursday shows, the ...

Data visualization wizards Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have devised a real-time map of wind speeds in the U.S., and it beats the pants off spiky cold fronts, happy suns, and whatever else ...

Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing sectors of renewable energy in the United States. About 3% of the total electricity in the United States was generated by wind turbines in 2012 (according to ...

Wind Maps ...

A new map highlights spots where there is enough wind to provide electricity to the whole world — and then some. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This small screengrab of a map of the Earth's winds circling the globe doesn't do justice to the big animated versions you can see here and here.

Two technology artists who head Google's "Big Picture" visualization research group debuted a new project this week that shows a time-lapse animation of wind speeds across the U.S. "An invisible, ...