information aesthetics:
Based on recently released information by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Cactus Flight 1549 Accident Reconstruction [exosphere3d.com] contains a very detailed technical description accompanied with various visualization animations of US Airways Flight 1549, or better, how it ditched in the Hudson River ear (Read More)
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Dutch artist Willem Besselink has an impressive collection of physical data art pieces. The biggest might be the 10mx6m RE:ID [willembesselink.nl], which represented the locations of about 12,000 visitors during a Museum Night in Rotterdam. The large-scale visualization installation was spread out like a building site on a (Read More)
FlowingData:
Just a quick note. There's an article up on CNN right now by Manav Tanneeru about the growth of visualization: A new way of looking at the world.There's a blurb in there about your.flowingdata, but mainly read it for the other sources. There's some nice tidbits from Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry, et. al. Thanks, Manav for incl (Read More)
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Google Analytics API on App Engine Treemap Visualization [analytics.blogspot.com] is an alternative look at your Google Analytics data in the form of an interactive treemap visualization. One can even allow the application access to your own Google Analytics data, to create personalized versions of the treemap. The data tha (Read More)
information aesthetics:
VisWeek is a venue that joins 2 conferences and 1 symposium on the topics of Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization and Visual Analytics. This year just over 800 people met in Atlantic City, USA to discuss, present, or listen to recent research on all kinds of visualization related topics. If you want to skip o (Read More)
Submitted by Jackmason
from blog:
M2: extending business intelligence through web dataMassive Mashups (M2) is an extension of the mashup paradigm that:integrates gigabytes, terabytes, or petabytes of unstructured data from web-based repositoriesCollects a wide range of unstructured web data stemming from user-defined seed URLsExtracts and Enriches that data (Read More)
FlowingData:
I think ever since visualization got started, people have been asking this question. What is visualization?Some... okay, many describe it as purely an analytical tool. Others (i.e. me) are a little more liberal with their use of the term while the rest are somewhere in between. Some insist that the stuff we see on informati (Read More)
FlowingData:
Jer Thorp, an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, visualizes when people "wake up" on Twitter, or when they say good morning, rather. Here it is in its 3-d globe glory. It's called GoodMorning!. Notice the wave.Okay, wait, I know you're already furiously leaving or thinking about a comment on how absolutely useless (Read More)
Simple Complexity:
Click to expandIndeed.com, a search engine for jobs, has some interesting unemployment visualizations. The one at right is quite effective.An important aspect as a consumer of data is to ask yourself what does the data mean. When I first saw this graphic, my first impression was that this showed me the difficulty of fin (Read More)
Simple Complexity:
Data 360, A Wiki For Data, is a site with a tremendous collection of data visualizations. I’ve selected 10 recent submissions to the wiki, but there are pages and pages of visualizations and data sets.Data360 is an open-source, non-profit and free website. The site hosts a common and shared database, from which any organi (Read More)
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Following trends has always been a persuasive topic in past data visualization, ranging from the famous Google Trends, Text Trends, Baby Name Trends or Web Trends. Trendsmap [trendsmap.com] is yet another trend visualization project, with an (almost) real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. The interface is ver (Read More)
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In this 5 minute Pecha Kucha talk from Ignite Salt Lake, interaction designer Matthias Shapiro walks through the different data visualization techniques that can be used to figure out what a particular dataset is trying to tell us.
You can watch the movie below, and find more background information here,. (Read More)
visualcomplexity.com:
On September 18th, 2009, New Scientist posted some striking images from the Eurographics Symposium, held in Berlin, which brought together researchers across the globe with new ideas on mapping a diversity of phenomena, from the dive profile of penguins to signature recognition systems.The one that caught my attention was t (Read More)
Submitted by Morgan
from Google Reader:
This is why you’re fat.Data Visualization of the Day: via thedailywhatThe contiguous United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s.Stephen Von Worley @ Weather Sealed compiled this rather spectacular infographic using a list of all 13,000+ US locations of McDonald’s (the “barometer of cookie-cutter commerc (Read More)
FlowingData:
I'd like to take a quick moment to thank our FlowingData sponsors. They help keep FlowingData online and running smoothly. Without them, things around here would be painfully slow.Check out the data visualization solutions they have to offer:Xcelsius Present — Transform spreadsheets into professional, interactive presentati (Read More)