July 12, 20119:20am
In a similar vein to his geo-tagger’s map of tourism, Eric Fischer creates another visualisation that demarcates geographical areas. This time combining flickr and Twitter by representing tweets with a geo-tagged photo link with blue dots and a geo-tagged flickr photo with orange dots (both are represented with white dots). Beautiful.
via FlowingData
June 20, 20114:33pm
This image, while not revealing a huge amount of insight, is rather beautiful — considering it visualises all the activity from the Champion’s League Final between Barcelona and Manchester United last month.
From the FT Weekend:
… activity (from both teams combined) during the second half of the Final. The large spikes are goals; the taller ridge represents touches; the shorter ridge represents passes.
via CR Blog
May 12, 20112:54pm
Rather beautifully rendered visualisation of the definitive Daft Punk discography.
via @Shealan
March 1, 20115:24pm
A Data visualization showing global Android device activations from October 2008 to January 2011. I particularly like the countdown to significant events such as Droid and Galaxy launches
via Flowing Data
December 15, 201011:28am
Facebook Intern Paul Butler delves into Facebook data to reveal an alternative map of the world through its 500 million members’ social connections rather than political or geographical borders.
via BBC News
August 2, 201010:05pm
This video is a great example of how the numbers alone don’t do the subject justice. After a poignant start in 1945, with the first test in New Mexico and the subsequent war deployments in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the time accelerated video reveals the extent of nuclear testing until 1998. It goes particularly mental around 1962 at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.
via blip.tv
July 13, 20101:51pm
Jer Thorp from blprnt.com (and author of the incredibly useful getting started in visualising data post) managed to get his hands on a data set of mobile phone records of 10 million people from an undisclosed European country, crunched them in Processing to produce this rathre beautiful 3D rendering of call length data.
Especially liked this goal to creating a data visualisation:
I want people to say ‘Oooh…!’ when they turn the page to it. Once they’re hooked, though, I want them to learn something – the ‘Aaah!’ moment.
Read more about how the data was used to reveal user’s visual trails.
I shall be buying a copy of WIRED on my way home to see the final piece
June 22, 201012:34pm
Rather excellent real-time map of Tube trains in transit.
June 14, 201012:24pm
Doug McCune plotted crime statistics on a map of San Francisco as elevation creating peaks and troughs in relation to the amount of crime. This one visualises prostitution peaking on Shotwell St. at the intersections of 19th and 17th. See more crime categories here.
via Flowing Data
May 23, 20108:42am
Information Architect’s Web Trend Map is in final beta. It visualises the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity and can be bought as an AO poster.
via iA.
