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An Animated Infographic Annual Report

2010-02-09T10:32:05+00:00

Dan Meyer's infographically translated statistics about the year 2009 shows an original and animated view on the now popular practice of publishing one's life as data. The data contains several dozen statistics about the pop culture he consumed, the people he talked to, the (Belgian...) beer he drank, the places he visited, the vehicles he took to those places, and the amount of sleep he enjoyed each day. These statistics was spread across several thousand cells of a spreadsheet, which were then condensed and animated into the 2.5-minute video clip.

As one commenter smartly puts it, animating one's statistics might become a potential new feature for services like Daytum, Mycrocosm, Nebul.us, EyeBrowse, Personas, and the like.

Watch the movie below.

More information at the author's blog post. Via @datavis.

Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

2010-02-08T22:47:12+00:00

"a graphic overview of the events in the history of data visualization that we call "milestones."

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web

2010-02-08T22:47:12+00:00

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.

Taking apart the federal budget (washingtonpost.com)

2010-02-08T22:47:12+00:00

Explore the various facets of the government's budget and see how revenues and spending have changed over time.

Plasma

2010-02-08T18:33:36+00:00

Comissioned by ArtAids, for the exhibition FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, Plasma is an interactive network of links and tags that belongs to a ongoing research on the topic of AIDS, from an integral and holistic point of view. Created by Santiago Ortiz and L�a Legrand, the project is still under way and welcoming further collaboration.

NetFlix Similarity Map

2010-02-08T18:33:36+00:00

This visualization depicts the similarities between 5,000 movies as found by an algorithm used for the Netflix Prize. Movies are represented by dots with adjacent titles. Similar movies, as determined by customer rating patterns, are connected by a line. Colors closer to red indicate a weaker similarity, and colors closer to yellow indicate a stronger similarity. Many similarly-rated movies tend to cluster around topics, themes, directors, or actors. You can see a previous version of the project here.

PostModernNews

2010-02-08T18:33:36+00:00

PostModernNews deconstructs a collection of Twitter messages into a bag-of-words, replacing syntax with a graphic re-arrangement of terms that the reader must re-associate to assert meaning. Users can either enter particular search terms or select one of the expandable categories, e.g., Trends, Celebrities, Editorial, to get started. The interaction with the generated territory allows different behaviors. While some relationships are drawn, others are implied with boundaries, solid or porous, and others only appear when queried with the cursor.

Mentionmap

2010-02-08T18:33:36+00:00

Released by Asterisq, Mentionmap is a web app for exploring your Twitter network. It allows you to discover which people you interact the most and what they're talking about. It's also an interesting way to find relevant people to follow.

The visualization runs in your browser and displays data from the Twitter API. It loads each user's Twitter status updates (tweets) and finds the people and hashtags they talked about the most. Clicking a user will display their network of mentions as well as details from their profile. The lines drawn between nodes become thicker the more users mention each other. This draws the viewer's attention to potential discussions and interesting debates. Hovering over an edge also reveals the exact number of mentions. You can also search for friends by typing their Twitter usernames into the search box.

The data is displayed using Constellation Framework - a graph visualization library for Actionscript.

Selected Tweets #5

2010-02-08T18:14:57+00:00

Constructivist Study - Steve Mason & Portrait - Chris Scarborough Microblogged: recent selected tweets from my Twitter stream. Note: Some tweets have additional descriptions, overriding their original 140 character limit. Lightning Fields - The dendritic aesthetics of electrical discharges on photographic dry plates - Hiroshi Sugimoto. Atlaseobscura reports on the Morning Glory Pool, a natural wonder [...]

Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com

2010-02-08T18:33:43+00:00

Infographics news: Visual Curriculum

2010-02-08T18:33:43+00:00

Sumedicina — A Data Fiction on Datavisualization.ch

2010-02-08T14:32:02+00:00

story retold via graphs

Envisioning Development » Affordable Housing

2010-02-08T14:32:01+00:00

The Envisioning Development Toolkit is a set of teaching tools designed to help experts and laypeople communicate. Advocates, policy wonks, community board members, developers, and others can use the tools as a centerpiece for workshops and conversations that describe and clarify problems and propose and communicate solutions. The Toolkit is visual, tactile, and interactive. Each tool translates abstract concepts and language into straightforward activities and physical objects that let people learn by looking, doing, and listening to each other. Participants teach themselves and others as they use the tools. Concepts and jargon turn out to be less complicated than they seem.

What's hot? Introducing Zeitgeist | Help | guardian.co.uk

2010-02-08T14:32:01+00:00

The Pool

2010-02-08T10:53:22+00:00

The Pool by Jen Lewin is a really interesting and modular approach to creating a light based game / playground space…

“The Pool is an environment of giant, concentric circles created from interactive, wireless circular pads. By entering the pool, you enter a world where play and collaborative movement can create a cascading effect of swirling light and color .

Each pad in The Pool is its own wireless controller. All of the 120 pads communicate and listen to each other in an organic network formed in the same way people interact. The Pool has no single master computer and does not use a router to route or control connections. Each pad is independent, and simultaneously interacts and listens to its environment based on user feedback.”

Watch videos

I’d love to get my hands on the set-up to prototype game ideas.

What's hot? Introducing Zeitgeist | Help | guardian.co.uk

2010-02-08T10:53:28+00:00

Global Voices Online » Announcing the Technology for Transparency Network

2010-02-08T00:39:18+00:00

Rising Voices, the outreach and citizen media training initiative of Global Voices Online, has launched a new interactive website and global network of researchers to map online technology projects that aim to promote transparency, political accountability, and civic engagement in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, China, and Central & Eastern Europe.

UW-Madison GIS Certificate Program

2010-02-07T21:17:36+00:00

visualizing #unibrennt

2010-02-07T14:31:30+00:00

BBC - Britain From Above - Stories - Visualisations - Taxis in London

2010-02-07T08:17:08+00:00

Welcome to VisWeek 2010!

2010-02-07T05:18:21+00:00

The Office of Feltron.com

2010-02-06T22:27:34+00:00

his infographics

WordItOut - Transform your text into word clouds!

2010-02-06T22:27:34+00:00

methods - eigenfactor.org - ranking and mapping scientific journals

2010-02-06T19:04:13+00:00

Sumedicina — A Data Fiction

2010-02-06T15:43:31+00:00