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Other topics: Data Visualization, Infographics

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  • NounProject
    The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.



  • Hashtags
    This service is the defacto standard for hashtag information. The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any user can categorize or follow topics with the Hashtags service.


  • What seven billion people looks like
    Dencity maps population density using circles of various size and hue. Larger, darker circles show areas with fewer people, while smaller, brighter circles highlight crowded cities. Representing denser areas with smaller circles results in additional geographic detail where there are more people, while sparsely populated areas are more vaguely defined.


  • CNN Ecosphere: 3D Ecosystem Globe Grows on #cop17 Tweets - information aesthetics
    The goal of CNN's Ecosphere [cnn-ecosphere.com] by Minivegas and Stinkdigital is a real-time Twitter visualization that aims to reveal how the online discussion is evolving around the topic of climate change. More specifically, the visualization aggregates all Twitter messages on the topic of #cop17 (in case you wonder, this is an abbreviation for "The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)".The online visualization consists of an interactive 3D globe, described as a "lush digital ecosystem" that closely resembles the look and behavior of real plants and trees in nature. In practice, the virtual plants in the 3D Ecosphere grow from those tweets that are tagged with #COP17. Each tweet about climate change feeds into a plant representing that specific topic or discussion, causing it to grow a little more.


  • Ancesstry: 2000
    This is an interesting map of the U.S. indicating the majority ancestry for each county.



  • Nick Diakopoulos » Unpacking Visualization Rhetoric
    Visualization can be useful for both more exploratory purposes (e.g. generating analyses and insights based on data) as well as more communicative ends (e.g. helping other people understand and be persuaded or informed by the insights that you’ve uncovered). Oftentimes more general visualization techniques are used in the exploratory phase, whereas more specific, tailored, and hand-crafted techniques (like infographics) tend to be preferred for maximal persuasive potential in the communicative phase.


  • Google Ngram Viewer
    When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. Let's look at a sample graph:


  • Chrome Experiments - WebGL Globe
    The WebGL Globe is an open platform for geographic data visualization. We encourage you to copy the code, add your own data, and create your own.


  • moritz.stefaner.eu - revisit - tedxlondon
    Revisit is a real-time visualization of the latest twitter messages (tweets) around a specific topic. Use it create your own twitter wall at a conference or an ambient display at your company or whatever other idea you come up with. In contrast to other twitterwalls, it provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the conversational threads established by retweets and @replies.


  • Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia
    As Doc Searls recently put it, Wikipedia is, like the protocols of the Net, "a set of agreements". A Web protocol defines the way in which computers communicate with each other and make decisions to ensure successful transactions. Wikipedia policies have the same purpose, but instead of transactions between machines, they regulate human decisions. An important part of these decisions bear on what topics are suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia and what topics are not. The present project looks into the nature and shape of collective decisions about the inclusion of a topic in Wikipedia.


  • The Archivist By Mix Online
    The Archivist does not have access to the Twitter "firehose" (ie., all the tweets ever on a subject). As such, the tweets archived by The Archivist are not guaranteed to represent a complete historical record of a given term or search. Read the FAQ to learn more about The Archivist.Visualizations are graphic representations of the data your archives. Visualizations generated by The Archivist may not represent a complete historical record. Use The Archivist to help you understand trends such as the number of Tweets over time, top users and words, sentiment, and more. Check out our handy visualizations page for more info or see what types of visualizations The Archivist creates below..








  • Jeff Clark - Portfolio
    This is a simple index into some of my more interesting or useful applications. Most of them are interactive and allow you to explore some data or create an interesting image. They were all created using Processing , which is built on top of java but specialized for use by visual artists and designers. Opening the interactive applications by clicking on some of the links below may take 15-30 seconds in order to start up java.






  • Tweet Topic Explorer
    I’m a big fan of data visualization because it makes understanding data interesting and puts new perspectives on things where you wouldn’t have seen it before. I cam across this handy little tool today that effectively lets you analyze your last months worth of Tweets and spits out an Infographic like the one you can sell below for my own tweets. It only takes a couple of seconds after adding your username to get your chaty back and it actually was very surprising to me and opened my eyes to the way I use Twitter.


  • Portwiture
    One of the coolest and most unique Twitter visualization tools is Portwiture. Portwiture is mainly for fun. It takes a look at your recent Twitter statuses and gives you a visual look – in pictures – showing you the theme of what you’ve been discussing. No worries though


  • Mention Map
    Mention Map is a tool that allows you to visually analyze your network and the mentions you’re receiving on Twitter. When you type in your user name you are shown as the hub and all the users around you are lined to you how they relate to you and your network.


  • Twitter StreamGraphs
    The application shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The default search word is 'interesting' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user. A parameter to the URL can be used to specify the initial search word. For example, use http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php?q=coffee to see the latest tweets about coffee. This makes it possible to link to a StreamGraph for your own tweets from your blog or within a twitter update.


  • How to make data look sexy - CNN.com
    That was certainly the conventional wisdom of the 20th century. Psychologists such as William Cleveland ran experiments to rank chart attributes such as position, area, angle, and color by how precisely we perceive them.


  • YouTube - Wikipedia Edits During the Middle-East Protests
    This is a short, dynamic visualization of edits to Wikipedia pages from December 1st to February 20th. It focuses on pages about nations where protests and revolutions occurred as well as pages about the protests themselves. Edits are color-coded by type, with orange-red lines indicating changes that added to a page whereas purple indicates changes that removed text from a page.




  • WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts
    WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth.Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.



  • Empire at the End of Decadence - NYTimes.com
    America is great in many ways, but on a whole host of measures — some of which are shown in the accompanying chart — we have become the laggards of the industrialized world. Not only are we not No. 1 — “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” — we are among the worst of the worst.





  • Mapumental
    Mapumental helps you build custom maps that help you work out the optimal place to live or work...


  • Looking for other livable planets
    The visualization imagines if all the exoplanets were orbiting a single star, which is physically impossible, but allows for comparisons for size, temperature, and path. There are a few views, starting with the exoplanets orbiting and then the animation transitions to something that sort of looks like an exoplanet mountain and then into a bubble plot.





  • Let's Debate the Issue of Aesthetics in Data Visualization... on Television - information aesthetics
    BBC television seems to have embraced informing people of the power (and dangers) of infographics. Several months before Hans Rosling's television documentary "The Joy of Stats", they even took up data visualization and infographics as a subject of intense debate. More specifically, on a episode of News Night, Information is Beautiful author David McCandless dueled with "Anti Design" initiator Neville Brody, a "legendary designer who is the original art director of The Face".





  • Mapping America's Well-Being - Richard Florida - Business - The Atlantic
    Here's a new map of well-being for America's 350-plus metro areas. It's based on surveys with more than one million Americans from data from the Gallup-Heathways Well-Being Index. Well-being follows the same basic bi-coastal pattern as income, human capital, and the creative class, being higher on the coasts than in the Midwest and Sunbelt.







  • UUorld Inc on Vimeo
    Our goal is to explain the world with maps, and provide tools so that others might do so as well.


  • Mood Map – How happy is the world?
    Mood Map gathers data from Twitter and analyses it to determine the "mood" of the world.Tweets from the public stream are randomly sampled every minute based on the presence of positive or negative emoticons. Each tweet then has its "mood" calculated and is geocoded so it can be placed on the map.


  • Top 35 Flickr Groups for Infographics and Data Visualization | Inspired Magazine
    Infographics are here to stay. More and more we see it trough the popularity that this kind of content reaches on Blog posts, Twitter and other social media networks, driving traffic and promoting great discussions on every kind of subject. And one of the best places to find tons of new infographics, maps, charts and other forms of data visualization goodies is, without question, Flickr Groups.




  • The Open Graph Protocol
    The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to enable any web page to have the same functionality as a Facebook Page.


  • Infographic
    Mashables's recent blog posts in the "Infographic" category.



  • Google - public data
    ​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.


  • RelFinder
    A semantic browser.  Type in two or more items, and the tool searches for connections via Web 3.0 


  • About EMC: Leadership and Innovation: The Digital Universe
    In a time when so many things seem to be shrinking in response to the global economic crisis, the digital universe continues its skyrocketing growth. People continue to take pictures, send e-mail, blog, and post videos. Companies are still adding to their data warehouses. Governments are still requiring more information be kept. In fact, the creation of new digital information in 2008 actually exceeded IDC predictions by three percent. The digital universe is expected to continue to grow by a factor of almost five in the next four years.




  • 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2009 | FlowingData
    Applications sprung up left and right that help you understand your data - your Web traffic, your finances, and your life. There are now online marketplaces that sell data as files or via API. Data.gov launched to provide the public with usable, machine-readable data on a national scale. State and local governments followed, and data availability expands every day.


  • 28 Rich Data Visualization Tools - InsideRIA
    We're currently working with a dozen different clients, all web application (re)designs. All of these clients have data rich applications and need equally rich data visualizations to help their end customers analyze data quickly and effectively.



  • stamen design | big ideas worth pursuing
    Since 2001, Stamen has developed a reputation for beautiful and technologically sophisticated projects in a diverse range of commercial and cultural settings. We work and play with a surprising and growing range of collaborators: news media, financial institutions, artists and architects, car manufacturers, design agencies, museums, technology firms, political action committes, and universities.


  • Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization - John Sviokla - HarvardBusiness.org
    The ability to visualize the implications of data is as old as humanity itself. Yet due to the vast quantities, sources, and sinks of data being pumped around our global economy at an ever increasing rate, the need for superior visualization is great and growing. To give dimension to the size of the challenge, the EMC reports that the "digital universe" added 487 exabytes — or 487 billion gigabytes — in 2008. They project that in 2012, we will add five times as much digital information as we did last year.




  • Murmur Study | Christopher Baker
    Not sure this is a visualization, but it is a graphic demonstration of Twitter feed and the fact that this digital small talk is being archived and indexed...




  • WeLoveDatavis
    A variety of infographics and data visualizations.


  • The cost of getting sick : GE
    To gain a deeper understanding of healthcare costs, we've combined the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) with 500K records from GE's proprietary database. By combining MEPS with GE's data, we gain a more complete picture of the costs associated with chronic conditions.


  • Cell Size and Scale
    A very neat tool for comparing the size of a coffee bean to the size of an atom. Interactive






  • feltron — In conjunction with the relaunch of their website,...
    In conjunction with the relaunch of their website, CNN asked me to examine their web statistics and create a visual record of the site’s last 13 years. We were both interested in telling a larger story about the growth of the Internet and the public’s changing media habits through the lens of such an influential and heavily trafficked site.


  • Tag Galaxy
    A mashup of Flickr -- very impressive...


  • Indexed
    Penciled visualizations on an index card...






  • Visualising data – a catalogue of resources « iapresentation
    There’s a continuing stream of tools and resources for visualising all kinds of data. After coming across quite a few sources myself and from other sources (including Journadism’s excellent list, the extensive article – Data Visualisation: Modern Approaches from Smashing Magazine and a recent presentation by Max Gadney of the BBC for the Information Design Association) I thought it would be useful for anyone who reads this post (and myself) to make another list. Please feel free to add to it:




  • three for all
    The best way to find out what that means is to have an actual look at the adapter development tutorial in the documentation section.


  • Visualization Lab | Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization
    This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. We contribute the design and implementation of sense.us, a web site supporting asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization types. The site supports view sharing, discussion, graphical annotation, and social navigation and includes novel interaction elements. We report the results of user studies of the system, observing emergent patterns of social data analysis, including cycles of observation and hypothesis, and the complementary roles of social navigation and data-driven exploration.


  • 13 Interesting Infographics for Web Workers | Web Design Ledger
    Infographics are a great way to get people to actually look at data. The use of visual design elements can simplify complex information and make it easier to digest. In this article, there are 13 infographics that present information and data that is useful to web workers. Whether you’re a web designer, developer, or blogger, you should find these infographics very interesting.






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