February 2010
4 posts
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January 2010
18 posts
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WatchThe New York Times site traffic, World View, June 25, 2009
Site traffic visualization to nytimes.com from mobile and web users on June 25, 2009. Design and programming by Michael Young, Noriaki Okada and Nick Bilton.
April 2009
3 posts
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Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta →
Download: For the last feedback round, all we offer is a PNG (2.6MB). There are more formats to come.
Own your Choices →
Own Your Choices is claimed to be the “first-ever choice making community”. At first, the website was part of the Own your C campaign, and meant to encourage teens not to smoke. Currently, it aims to reveal how personal choices affect others and characterize one’s self. In particular, the website focuses on starting the conversation around topics such as tobacco, health,...
ThoughtPile: Aggregating the Best Ideas in the... →
Thoughtpile is an open invitation to share the best ideas with the world about important, emerging topics, such as “How can we agree what needs to change?”, “How can technology become more human”, and so on. Unfortunately, as a demo version only, posting and counting has been disabled.
The interface has some compelling and neatly designed 3D effects in conveying the...
March 2009
7 posts
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Social Collider →
The Social Collider data visualization reveals cross-connections between conversations on Twitter. One can search for usernames or topics, which are tracked through time and visualized much like the way a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter. Posts that did not resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did, however, spin off and horizontally...
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Social Weather Mapping | smalltalk →
Social Weather Mapping geo-locates recent tweets in the US that contain the terms “sunny”, “rainy”, “snowy”, “windy”, and “foggy”. The size of the circles are determined by the number of tweets, and are colored by its current dominant weather. As sufficient “weather” data is aggregated, it can be used to form a...
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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand →
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 short voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service, assembled together to sing the song Daisy Bell. In 1962, the IBM 704 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell.
Online workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard. Each person was paid...
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DaisyDisk →
With DaisyDisk you can free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files.
The program scans a disk and displays its content as a sector diagram where the biggest files and folders at once become obvious. To drill down to a folder, just click on a segment. To bubble up, click in the center. Move the mouse over the diagram and see the name and path of each file, and enclosed...
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The world's eyes →
Los ojos del mundo (the world’s eyes) illustrates the photos people visiting Spain leave behind on Flickr as evidence of contemporary tourism in the country. Through data mining and visualization techniques, the project uncovers the evolution of the presence and flows of tourists. As photos pill up to reflect the intensity of the tourist activity, they uncover where...
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US Trade Surplus and Deficit Visualized →
US Trade Deficit is an interactive graph that depicts the U.S. annual trade surplus/deficit information for each of the top 10 countries for each category (surplus/deficit). The countries that are in surplus (adding cash to the US economy) are along the top, while the countries along the bottom show the corresponding trade deficits (that are taking cash out of the US economy).
The dataset was...
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TimeSpace: World →
TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows users to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. One can discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered, use the slider timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, or customize news searches to a particular day or specific hour.
February 2009
6 posts
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Related Pages: Visualizing the Proximity of Wiki... →
The project Related Pages consists of small, minimal force-directed network visualization located in the sidebar of a wiki webpage. The graph shows the “proximity” of the content on visited webpage in the context of a whole website. The visualization aims at offering the user an alternative possibility to navigate across the wiki from the School of the Arts in Schwäbisch Gmünd,...
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New York Times Headlines as Wallpaper Pattern →
A commercially available wallpaper pattern based on the news headlines from the New York Times. The headlines are organized chronologically and color-coded as subject matter is mapped unto a rainbow legend. Subsequently, global, national, and local events generate a continuous stream of news from which color patterns emerge.
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text2image: Transforming Text into Visual Glitches →
ext2image is one of those “data art” works that balances on the line of total uselessness and visual fascination. While there is no immediate purpose, one still spends minutes playing around with it. It is an online tool which allows the user to transform text of any sort into a “visualization” of that very content. The results are deterministic, in that they are...
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Glocal: Immense, Collaborative Image Explorer →
Glocal (short for global + local) is an “immense, collaborative and multifaceted” digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of digital images. Thousands of individuals, including artists, non-artists and youth, are invited to participate to collaborate in the making of what promises to be Canada’s largest “contributive” digital artwork.
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Synoptic: Meteorological Data Visualization →
Synoptic is a 3D “interactive infographic” based on the chronological sequence of back-dated meteorological data from Augsburg (Germany). Users can select a data attribute to explore (e.g. temperature, luminosity, humidity, air pressure, precipitation), alter timespans, and detect outliers, trends or patterns over time on a three-dimensional line graph landscape.
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Josef Müller-Brockmann →
Josef Müller-Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher, mostly recognised for his simple designs and his clean use of typography, notably Helvetica. His shapes and colours have inspired many graphic designers in the 21st century, and made him one of the main precursors of the International Typographic Style, also known as Swiss Style.This visualization is the result of a personal web...
January 2009
4 posts
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Eigenfactor: Visualizing Information Flow in... →
The project contains 4 beautiful interactive data visualizations that explore the emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. “Citation Patterns” provides an overview of the whole citation network in a circular graph. The colors represent the 4 main groups of journals, which are further subdivided into fields in the outer ring. Line size and opacity represents connection...
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Data visualization project for Google →
Data visualization project for Google. The concept revolved around the idea of aggregating and visualizing the scale and pace of activity as well as the influence of social media over that data. The end result of this effort would harness the power of Google Analytics and other data from varied sources and display them in a super flexible interface that would be beautiful in it’s own...
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TreeViz: Visualization of Large Tree Structures →
TreeViz is an amazingly small and elegant application (working on all OS platforms) that is able to visualize large data structures organized in a tree by 7(!) different interactive data visualization techniques: Hyperbolic Tree, Circular Treemap, Rectangular Treemap, Sunburst Tree, Icicle Tree, Sunray Tree and Iceray Tree. The project currently consists of a file browser demonstration, which...
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Milky Way Transit Authority →
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December 2008
6 posts
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Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons →
Nuke it!
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FeedVis RSS Feed Tag Cloud Generator →
FeedVis is an online tag cloud generator with some additional interactive features. Users can select specific time periods, common blog themes or individual blog feeds. Individual tags can be further explored to read specific blog posts of interest.
Tags are ordered by frequency and frequency change. Frequency denotes how many times a word is used per 1000 words. Frequency change measures the...
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SpatialKey →
The next geographical mapping startup, SpatialKey is marketed as a “next generation Information Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System”. It is specifically designed to help organizations quickly assess location-based information to allow for decision making processes and reporting requirements. There are several online demos available, ranging from “Wal-Mart store...
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DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer →
Doodle Buzz doodlebuzz.com is an online news aggregator with a visual twist. Users are requested to submit their favorite news theme or topic, and to draw a crazy, chaotic, all-over-the-place, messed-up, scribbled line on the white canvas. The line is then used as the framework to layout the headlines, summaries and related topics. The aim is to create an entirely new way of exploring...
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Call the Shots for Radiohead →
Japanese TV station WOWOW has a feature on their site that lets you mix a video of a live Radiohead performance wowow.co.jp from the Saitama Super Stadium leg of their 2008 Japanese tour. A set of quite aesthetic data visualizations accompanies this online music video mix tool.
The video interface allows you to choose from 12 colour-coded cameras to record your own “rainbow” (the...
Sioc.me: 3D Visualization of Semantic Space →
SIOC.ME is a “real-time interactive visualization of boards.ie semantic data in three-dimensional space”. The project was originally submitted for entry to the Boards.ie SIOC Data Competition that, based on over 10 years of online discussion and around 9 million documents, invited submissions to create something which uses the data in an interesting manner.
The visualization allows a...
November 2008
2 posts
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SFMOMA Artscope Visual Artwork Browsing Tool →
The new SFMOMA ArtScope [sfmoma.org] has been designed for wandering, for the chance discovery of artworks visitors might not have encountered before. The visual browsing tool based on Stamen’s Modest Maps tile engine, features more than 3,500 objects from the SFMOMA collection, arranged in a continuous, map-like grid. Users can zoom in on an eye-catching image, search by keyword or...
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Obama →