11 days ago
philgyford : Sprint: Plug into Now. - Quite absorbing "dashboard" about the state of the world. Some of it's obviously whizzy and not entirely factual. But I want one for me. (via Russell Davies)
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3 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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3 month ago
43folders : DAYTUM - via:http://numblr.nostrich.net/post/46889016
Andy Baio : Daytum, collecting the minutiae of your daily life - private beta service from Nicholas Felton, author of the Feltron Annual Reports [via]
philgyford : Daytum - Lets you keep track of any kind of daily data you like and graph it. Brilliant. I don't often think "I wish I'd thought of that" but... (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
philgyford : Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics - Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Movie box office charts - Nice streamy visualisations showing movie box office sales over time. [via] #
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Wordle - lovely word clouds generated from supplied text
philgyford : Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - Lets you create tag clouds that are much more lovely than the usual. (via Blackbelt Jones)
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7 month ago
joshua : Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
Richard Rutter : Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About - Aide-memoire.
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8 month ago
plasticbag : My tweet cloud reveals my most important and common words to be: going, work, think, bloody, day, people and trying - The next lot are a little less depressing: awesome, eagle, evening, fucking, new, think, totally, want. Top people mentioned: Biddulph, Brother, Cal, God, Jones, Paul, Simon.
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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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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization - works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive [via]
joshua : mail-trends - analyze and visualize your email as extracted from an IMAP server
Rod Begbie : mail-trends - Analyzes your email corpus and displays nice graphs. Currently only works with GMail, but support for all IMAP servers is planned. [via] #
philgyford : Mail-trends - Google Code - "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)" Haven't tried it, but it looks purty. (via Haddock)
Jeremy Zawodny : mail-trends - mail-trends: "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)."
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Newsdesigner has linked to video from TED of awesome Microsoft photo-related exploratory semantic-ness... - Fascinated to see where this goes next. Would be amazing on the surface table...
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Puzzled but entertained by Twitter Blocks. Click here to look at my 'plasticbagUK' relationship blockgraph - Not really got the slightest idea why this is anything other than an interesting folly. It doesn't seem particularly interesting as a way of exploring relationships or understand the linkiness of people on Twitter. But it is pretty beautiful.
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plasticbag : Netflix are offering $1 million to anyone who can substantially improve their recommendations algorithms - The most interesting thing is that they're opening up a substantial dataset in order to help them work through these issues. I'd be really interested to get my hands on that with a talented data visualiser. Maybe Stamen should have a play?
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jimray : Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth - Really cool photo visualization and community app. Imagine this applied to the photos in Flickr's database.
plasticbag : Photosynth appears to be a pretty extraordinary new way of exploring and using photos - Created by Microsoft Research, my only real eyebrow raise is whether or not it's one of those things that actually gets effectively translated into the mainstream. Microsoft's done a lot of fascinating work recently that hasn't been productisable...
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Wordcount - It's a bit of a classic visualisation in Flash of the frequency of the usage of different words, but it's a good one. Very nice indeed.
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30 month ago
plasticbag : George Nimeh has used his IA ninja skills to visualise Yahoo's complete network and turn it into a poster - Click on the PDF for the full orgiastic infographic - just be prepared for your computer to run like a dog. I think we might get this printed out for the office...
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30 month ago
Cameron Moll : Applet to create your own HTML markup graph - Follow-up to HTML markup graphs: An applet to create one using your site URL (or any other site for that matter). You'll get a kick out of watching it build on the fly.
Rod Begbie : Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet - Whizzy Java applet which creates a pretty map of a web page's structure. [via] #
Eric Meyer : Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet - Totally, totally sweet. I love watching a graph unfold and settle in. [via Shaun] [via]
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30 month ago
joshua : time travel maps - gorgeous visualization of travel time
philgyford : MySociety - Travel-time Maps and their Uses - Lovely maps of travel times around the UK by Lightfoot & Steinberg, data wranglers to the Ministry. (via Haddock)
Simon Willison : Travel-time Maps and their Uses - Fascinating concept, beautiful maps.
Nelson Minar : Travel time maps - Fantastic transportation visualization (via Kottke)
Paul Hammond : mySociety - Travel-time Maps and their Uses - Using colours and contour lines they show how long it takes to travel between one particular place and every other place in the area, using public transport
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32 month ago
Rod Begbie : Baseball Salary Treemap - Player salaries laid out by team, division and league. #
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Timeline of Apple Macintosh models from Wikipedia - Nice bit of work this - classy and up to date. I can identify several major product lines that I've been lucky enough to own.
wearehugh : Timeline of Apple Macintosh models
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33 month ago
plasticbag : Stamen design provided a backchannel visualisation for ETech - Seeing it near the end of the week basically freaked me out, but now with a bit of perspective this is one classy little app!
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37 month ago
Rod Begbie : Flight Patterns - Some beautiful visualizations generated from FAA data of all flights over the USA one day in March. [via] #
veen : Flight Patterns - Beautiful visualizations of North American air traffic
jkottke : Flight pattern visualizations - Beautiful flight pattern visualizations over the US based on data from the FAA. (via ia) [via]
gleuschk : Amazing Flight Pattern simulations - reminds me of War Games
philgyford : Flight Patterns - Gorgeous animations of flights over the US. Better than it sounds. (via Kottke)
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39 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
Andy Baio : Video: Grandaddy's "Jed's Other Poem" - don't miss this one; fan-made video programmed on an Apple ][+
Wayne Burkett : Video: Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) - Fan video. Programmed on an Apple ][+. #
plasticbag : Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) - A stunning video for a Grandaddy song that uses an Apple II to create 'expressive' typography. Wonderful.
Richard Rutter : Jed’s Other Poem - Brilliant video for this Grandaddy song, made using an Apple II.
Eric Meyer : Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) - Awesome. Check it. [via Richard] [via]
Nelson Minar : Jed's Other Poem - Pretty volunteer video (via Kevin Fox)
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Infosthetics weblog on information visualisation and aesthetics - Oh this is so my new favourite site. Beautiful interesting interfaces to explore and play with. Ideas everywhere. Awesome stuff...
Milo Vermeulen : information aesthetics weblog - information aesthetics weblog [via] [via]
joshua : information aesthetics weblog
Richard Rutter : Information Aesthetics - Data visualization and visual design blog.
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41 month ago
plasticbag : London Underground accelerated time disruption map - Get past the post and click on the link to the Quicktime movie at the bottom of the page
Paul Hammond : Whitelabel.org » London Underground accelerated time disruption map - I wrote a script that grabs and saves the disruption map every 10 minutes
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