March 2008
14 posts
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Adobe Photoshop Express →
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Livejournal.ru TV →
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Refugee Flights & Expulsions →
an interactive map illustrating the global flights & expulsions of 21,000,000 refugees who were forced to leave their countries due to war, political, racial or religious persecution, as internationally displaced person, or as repatriates on their way back home. the data used is based on the annual United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees (UNHCR) statistics between the years of 1995...
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The Baby Name Wizard →
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Hand-Drawn Sheep Market →
a collection of 10,000 unique sheep, hand-drawn by workers hired via the Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. each worker was paid 2 cents to “draw a sheep facing to the left.” average time spent drawing sheep: 105 seconds. average wage: $0.69 / hour.
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Color Label Explorer →
a chart mapping about 1,300 colors & the according (English) names that people gave for them. each name is printed in its own color & positioned on a color wheel. there seem to appear distinct regions for different names, while there are also rich sets of modifiers (”light”, “dark”, “sea”), multi-word names (”army green”), & fun obscure ones (”cerulean”).
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Atlas of Electromagnetic Space →
an impressive 3D navigable representation of the services that use our electromagnetic radiospectrum, ranging from 10Khz “radio navigation” to 100Ghz “inter-satellite communication”.the “services” view shows the range of applications (e.g. mobile, satellite, broadcasting) sorted by electromagnetic frequency, while the “projects” view documents...
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Twitter Blocks →
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5k Twitter Browser →
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Hyperonyme →
Setup_Hyperonyme (win) Setup_Hyperonyme_ScreenSaver (win) Hyperonyme_MacOs (mac)
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Design and the Elastic Mind →
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of...
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JAE visual history visualizations →
a set of sophisticated data-driven interfaces documenting the historical activities of the Spanish national scientific research institution La Junta para Ampliación de Estudios (JAE) between 1907 & 1939. in particular, the online application allows the user to study the history of the institution, the movements of the students it funded & the academic documents that they have been produced...
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6pli del.icio.us tag network →
a network diagram of one’s delicious tags & bookmarks, including 3 different views: “elastic 3D”, “elastic 2D” (a flat projection with rotational navigation) & “circles 2D” (circular mapping), all with a 3D rotational navigation.
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Alchemy of Fruit Juices →
an interactive information graph that aims to help choose the right fruits for a juice drink. this “alchemic diagram” allows user to select either fruits, feelings (e.g. stellar, salty, creamy) or tastes (sweet, sour, salty & bitter), & foresees the tastes & feelings of juices that are mixed, based on stored user comments from previous juice combinations.