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philgyford : Creative Review - The Atlas of the Real World - Some fascinating maps of the world representing stuff about each country... oh, just look. (via Booktwo)
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philgyford : NGM Blog Central - The Cost of Care - National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com - Nice infographic. Not understandable in a very quick glance but it shows a lot of info after a couple of seconds. Also, the UK looks nicely average. (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Visualizing empires decline on Vimeo - Lovely visualisation of the expansion and contraction of four empires over 200 years. (via Long Now)
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Simon Willison : Cartographer.js - Cartographer.js. “Thematic mapping for Google Maps”—which means an easy way of adding heat maps (aka chloropleths), pie charts and point clusters as a layer over a Google map.
nelson : Cartographer.js - Library for overlaying data on Google Maps
philgyford : Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps - Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)
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nelson : Animated treemap - Neat visualization of how the financial sector shrunk and grew in the past few years
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philgyford : Op-Ed Columnist - Swan Songs? - NYTimes.com - On the changing state of the recorded music industry, mostly for the fascinating 'Music Sales' graphic on the left. (via Daring Fireball)
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Andy Baio : NYT infoviz of American economic boom-bust cycles - don't miss the the last part, animating consumer confidence indicators before production output [via]
nelson : Turning a Corner? - Absolutely amazing infographic from the NYT. It's worth the time to click through and understand.
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Rod Begbie : Flip Flop Fly Ball - "A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball." Lots of great stuff, the comparison of ballpark ticket prices being my favourite. [via] #
nelson : Flip Flop Fly Ball - Great collection of sports infographics
Andy Baio : Flip Flop Fly Ball, Craig Robinson's baseball infoviz - Ballpark Orientation, Major League Fields, Ball Size Comparison and the Wu-Tang vs. E Street Band [via]
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Anil : This is how we should talk to kids - Children's stories should clearly communicate their messages. Unambiguous, no?
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Anil : This is how we should talk to kids - Children's stories should clearly communicate their messages. Unambiguous, no?
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Rod Begbie : Slagsmålsklubben - Fantastic video -- Little Red Riding Hood told in an infographic stylee. [via] #
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Anil : This is how we should talk to kids - Children's stories should clearly communicate their messages. Unambiguous, no?
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Rod Begbie : The Crisis of Credit Visualized - One of the best explanations for the mess we currently find ourselves in. [via] #
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nelson : Warroom design critique - Great blog post from Ben Fry (Processing guy) about a Saudi oil company's 220 feet of LCD monitors
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18 month ago
Andy Baio : FlowingData announces winners of the Personal Visualization Project - see also: Daytum and Mycrocosm
philgyford : Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is... | FlowingData - Oodles of pretty and obsessive charting of personal data. (via Boing Boing)
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19 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Mycrocosm from M.I.T. Media Lab - “A Web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs.”
Andy Baio : Mycrocosm - very, very similar to Daytum, but supports OpenID and a mobile/email interface
philgyford : Mycrocosm - "A web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs." Like Daytum? Love it. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : HistoryShots Information Graphics - Prints - Nice posters of timelines and similar infographics, along the lines of that one of Napoleon's Russian campaign. Mostly American topics. (via Haddock)
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” - Absolutely fascinating book of what appear to be map-like visualisations of literary themes, books, sentence lengths and the like. I'm trying desperately to find out where to get my hands on it. Any ideas?
philgyford : Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT) - Amazing infographic-like diagrams all based on Kerouac's 'On the Road'. Obsessively beautiful. (via Orlando's Ffffound)
jonhicks : Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” - Stefanie's work is incredible - a must see!
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nelson : Consumption spreading - The bottom graph is amazing
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26 month ago
Richard Rutter : Data Visualization and Infographics - Some nice stuff from Smashing Magazine.
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28 month ago
nelson : Baseball pitches - Nice infographics
Rod Begbie : Baseball Pitches Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakar - Nice infographics explaining the difference between a slider and a cutter. [via] #
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32 month ago
nelson : Solar eclipse map - Awesome visualization of totality for 25 years
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34 month ago
gleuschk : LastGraph: Welcome - Dear internet: this is super-mega-awesome. Love, gleuschk.
Rod Begbie : LastGraph: Welcome - Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this! [via] #
Andy Baio : LastGraph - beautiful infoviz graphs of Last.fm listening habits; examples here [via]
philgyford : LastGraph: Home - Create completely stunning and fascinating colourful graphs of your Last.fm data. The best way I've ever seen of getting a good impression of what you've listened to. If only I had data for my whole life of listening. (via Plasticbag)
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35 month ago
jimray : Improving the in-flight information experience - Ben's got some sharp thinking about how to make flying better. The pictures are worth the trip alone.
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