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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A global environmental group that works to protect land, water, and wildlife said states in what it considers the U.S. “wind belt” can develop wind power generation to meet renewable energy goals ...

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 ...

HINT.FM's Wind Map takes national weather data and visualizes it beautifully. LOS ANGELES — It’s undeniable that the weather affects us, everyday. But understanding the patterns, the amazing global ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. The maps were created by Tokyo-based software engineer ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

A new interactive map released Thursday shows the location of all the wind farms in the United States. Wind power started in California in 1981 when the Altamont wind farm in Alameda County was built ...