May 2008
16 posts
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Air Data Visualisation →
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use an air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Participants are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other AIR devices in the network. An on-board GPS unit and digital...
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Visual Search Platform Viewzi →
A project that is said to have been in the works for roughly two years, Viewzi, is a visual search utility - or “platform,” as its engineers prefer to call it - which just recently transferred to beta stage. Don’t let that tag deceive, however. Despite its semi-private beta status, Viewzi already looks quite well developed. How good? Well, its gorgeous, really. Juxtapose it against what Mountain...
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Trulia Visual Search Tool →
Trulia, a real estate search site which stands among the best in the business and which offers users detailed discovery of properties for sale as well as quite detailed analysis of real estate markets, has launched a new utility called Snapshot, powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth, that overlays housing data atop an interactive map that is nothing short of a visual treat. Once the user specifies a...
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Barcode Plantage →
an algorithmic visual representation of barcodes, of which the numerical codes determine the positions, curves & colors of Bezier curves in a tree structure. the number of curves varies in correspondence to the number of figures in the code. in addition, information details of the country of origin, manufacturer, product number & sum are displayed.
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Mapping the Human «Diseasome» →
the NYTimes seems to churn out high-quality data visualizations faster than I can blog them. a network visualization linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common, represented by squares. each circle represents a disease or disorder & is scaled to the number of genes associated to that disease. this map improves the understanding of the causes of...
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Tag Galaxy →
You start off be entering a tag such as a city name, color, or a myriad of other possible tags (I started off with “Tokyo” as it is my favorite city to visit), and once you click “Go”, the magic and fun begin. You are whisked away to what looks to be a star, surrounded by “planets” that represent complementary tags. If you’re happy with your initial search, you can just click the star and you...
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MotoGP Statistics Viewer →
an interactive visualization dashboard of recent statistics from MotoGP, the premier motorcycle road racing championship. the project explores different means of viewing to provide a novel way to understand the championship, individual races & the interrelationships between riders, manufacturers, tires & teams. users can drill down into each race to explore different visualization of...
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US Gas Price Temperature Map →
an interactive geographic map conveying the relative gas prices within the US. areas are color coded according to their price for the average price for regular unleaded gasoline. there is also a map for Canada. not sure of the US, but any Australian version should be dynamic. petrol prices here change according to the day of the week.
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Uniqlo Grid →
A campaign website in the occasion of Uniqlo’s London Flagship Store opening. Users from around the globe simultaneously access the website to generate, delete, move and rotate the Uniqlo logo. There is a virtual game-like quality where the users share moments of real time, an interactivity loosely hinting at how Uniqlo expands its existence around the world.
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Tweetwheel →
a visual representation of one’s Twitter network, distributed over a circle, similar to ludios circular network graph, there seem to be plenty of twitter stream visualizations out there, although only one has been blogged here before.
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Twistori →
a “first person” visualization of Twitter messages, inspired by We Feel Fine. Twitter messages are filtered by occurrences of the phrases “I love”, “I hate”, “I think”, “I believe”, “I feel” & “I wish”, which are placed in a visual scrolling message ticker, similar to Digg Labs BigSpy.
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TimeTube →
an online & interactive timeline that arranges the unsorted collection of YouTube videos by date, offering a visual & useful perspective on recent events. individual videos are placed on a horizontal timeline, with more popular videos appearing larger.
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Literature Doner Kebab →
such a great concept! Kai Heuser tells us about one of the recent projects over at Jung von Matt/Neckar. It’s the Literature Doner Kebab. The German Reclam publishing company sells mainly classics of literature. To get schoolchildren and students’ enthusiastic about Reclam titles, The Literature Doner Kebab presents literary works in an easily digestible form. Instead of the familiar meat...
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Spectra →
an alternative 3D view to read, play & interact with news from msnbc.com online. users are able to customize news channels, sort them by theme or time, browse & save specific news stories, or just gaze the news go by in auto-mode. reminds me of brynsbrain & flickr tiltviewer.
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Searchscapes →
an online, interactive 3D map of Manhattan, containing ‘invisible’ data such as facts, memories, experiences, stories & news retrieved from existing online sources. the height of the informational text ‘building’ on that location will correspond to the number of results found. for visually or conceptually similar approaches, check out MIT’s city of news...
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Average American Consumer Spending →
an interactive infographic treemap representing how much the average American citizen spends on 84,000 products in about 200 categories, including fast food, car insurance, rent, electricity, garbage collection & so on. larger shapes make up a larger part of spending. individual shapes can be selected & the treemap can be zoomed in & out.