April 2008
8 posts
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TwittEarth →
TwittEarth brings every Tweet for which it can find a geo-location to life on a screen-sized model of Earth, complete with snazzy lighting effects (dormant, from what we can gather). Each tweet is represented by a bite-sized graphical creature/avatar. Think of it as TwitterVision on speed. The whole mashup was designed by Digitas France SA. As the globe spins, you get more and more of the...
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Trulia Hindsight →
Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time
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WatchBernard Kerr (Yahoo!) viz talk
an intriguing presentation at the conference “Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign” that was recently held in Potsdam, Germany. Bernard Kerr is a Senior Interaction Designer at Yahoo! & is currently the lead designer of the social bookmarking service Delicious. his talk focuses on IBM’s remail & tagorbitals projects.
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Textour Text Analysis Visualization →
an interactive data visualization of text analysis. the graphs illustrate the rules & patterns of quantitive linguistics with which text can be considered a system of words where length, position & frequency of words do not appear at random. 3 circles represent the text (dot in the middle), the sentences, the words & the letters. every single spot represents an entity connected to...
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Munterbund →
Munterbund showcases the results of research graphical visualization of text similarities in essays in a book. “The challenge is to find forms of graphical and/or typographical representation of the essays that are both appealing and informative. We have attempted create a system which automatically generates graphics according to predefined rules.”
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Elastic Lists →
Elastic Lists demonstrates the “elastic list” principle for browsing multi-facetted data structures. You can click any number of list entries to query the database for a combination of the selected attributes. The approach visualizes relative proportions (weights) ofmetadata by size and visuzalizes characteristicness of a metadata weight by brightness. Author’s blog regularly informs about new...
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Voyage - RSS feed reader →
RSS-feader which displays the latest news in the “gravity area”. News can be zoomed in and out. The navigation is possible with a timeline.
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FontStruct Font-Building Tool →
This is just brilliant! This has not yet been formally announced, but it’s fully functional and open to all. FontStruct is a free font-building tool from the retailer of digital type,FontShop. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’...