October 2008
9 posts
Reconstitution: Live Remix of the 2008... →
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Wine Flavor Visualization →
A relative simple circular visualization of the relationships between wine varieties and flavor components. The Wine Flavor Visualization [tashian.com] shows the strength of these relationships, by parsing descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine.
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Audio-generated landscape →
link: flight404
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Obesity System Influence Diagram →
Part of the Foresight Tackling Obesities project, the Obesity System Influence Diagram[shiftn.com] consists of a causal loop map that provides a systemic insight into the multiplicity of factors contributing to the obesity epidemic. The 108 drivers of obesity were compiled from 38 science reviews, and woven into a systemic diagram by the positive and negative influence arrows that ultimately...
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3D and Geographical Financial Treemaps →
The use of the typically green/red colored treemaps to depict the stock market exchange is not particularly new, especially for those who know the now famous SmartMoney Map of the Market. However, FinViz.com takes the more traditional flat treemap version one step further by introducing a 2.5-dimensional perspective [finviz.com] as well as a geographical overview [finviz.com] version. The height...
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What People in Tokyo are Doing on a Tuesday →
The Tokyo: Right Now [xoxosoma.com] website illustrates a collection of census data from Tokyo, that solves the question: "What are you doing right now?". The main graph exists of an interactive "streamgraph", similar to the Themeriver method, taken over by Last.fm’s Stream Graph, LastGraph and the NYTimes Flow of box office movies. The graph represents...
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Shape of Song →
What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see—literally—the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the...
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This is Knowledge Cartography →
This website aims to present the results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations.The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography. The map, in...
Data Signals On A Spiral →
a simple visualization metaphor that represents different numerical “signals” as colors mapped on a spiral. the signals include: the number of divisors, prime numbers, the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last 10 eyars & the temperature variation over the last 422,000 years..