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.