ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest stat (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It always gives us joy to tell our readers that Microsoft is actually doing cool things. The company's Live Labs has been the source of a few interesting projects: a 3D photo-stitcher called PhotoSynth, a bookmarking service (Read More)
information aesthetics:
Friday, November 14, was the 2nd day of seminar at Visualizar'09. See our previous post about its Kick-Off. Xavier Alonso presented data404, a collection of sources of public information. In the following talk, Jan-Christoph (Read More)
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 v (Read More)
Submitted by bensykes
from Twitter:
Fun example of multi-touch data visualization using the "cliched" transparent touchable glass http://ow.ly/BLfP #haptics. (Read More)
information aesthetics:
Architecture + Data Visualization + London Olympics 2012 = The Cloud. The CLOUD [raisethecloud.org] is a massive display system, planned as an expo structure annex monument for the London Olympics in 2012. Think this decade's (Read More)
information aesthetics:
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 Nigh (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 othe (Read More)
information aesthetics:
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 ac (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, prese (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 wid (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 (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, (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 mea (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-sour (Read More)
information aesthetics:
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 (Read More)
information aesthetics:
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 te (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Designer Nicholas Felton formalized his passion for personal infographics in 2005 when he issued his first Annual Report. He tracked his time spent working, the countries he'd visited, his favorite books and even his favorite (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 infogra (Read More)