Datavisualization 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media Narratives 2.0 visualizes music. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy. Tuneglue is another music visualization service. MusicMap is similar to TuneGlue in its interface, but seems slightly more intuitive. Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr Internet Visualizations
Protovis Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub. May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! Getting Started
11 Chrome Extensions, For Starters Google promised that Chrome would be fast to launch and fast to load web pages, but people predicted it would fail with the arrival of its extensions. Well, the extensions are here (at least for some of us) and surprisingly they do not affect the browser’s performance. And not only that, but playing with Google Chrome Extensions is like child’s play, whether you’ve added a new extension, or deleted one, you won’t need to restart your browser. Extensions are so easy to manage and use that once you have access to them, I’m sure you’ll be looking forward to testing everything in this Cromeextensions Directory. This is what I basically did. I tried most of the extensions, then realized I’m not ready yet to ditch my beloved Firefox, and I’m guessing that you won’t be either. Gmail Compose One useful and lightweight chrome extension is “Gmail Compose.” QuickSearch Perform a search from Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, and more with the QuickSearch extension. Google Tasks for Chrome Fittr
Les éditorialistes du e-billautshow. Jean François Susbielle from Singapour : le talon d'Achille des USA : Microsoft ! Notre ami Jean François Susbielle, que je connais depuis... un certain temps ...est un vieux routier de l'Internet. Il a d'ailleurs écrit plusieurs livres dans le domaine du réseau des réseaux ... Il nous en rappelle brièvement les titres... Et puis il a viré sa cutie.. L'internet c'est bien connu, c'est comme le droit, cela conduit à tout.. Il est passé à la géopolitique (il est professeur de géoplotique dans plusieurs universités françaises). De quoi s'agit-il ? S'en suit tout un tas d'aventures, de barbouzes divers, etc ... Bref, un thriller trés hollywodien.. Face à cette situation, notre ami Jean François, qui a une âme de fonceur (l'Internet+ la géopolitque c'est bien connu, font des âmes bien trempées..) s'est dit qu'il valait mieux le traduire lui-même en anglais. Et donc vous pouvez en télécharger gratuitement tous les chapitres, sur china-usa.net.. Par ailleurs Jean François publie sur ce site des news qu'ils collectent sur cette géopolitique... Commentaires au débotté..
Decode Exhibition Points Way to Data-Driven Art | Underwire | Wi The cryptic works on display at London’s Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibition manipulate raw data as a kind of virtual pigment, finding form and fun amid the sensory overload that threatens to overwhelm the 21st-century hive mind. Several exhibition pieces showcased at Victoria and Albert Museum depend on human presence to produce their full effect. A motion-detecting eyeball, for examples, blinks each time a visitor blinks. Other installations, on display through April 11, strip-mine data streams from Twitter, translate a day’s worth of flight routes into animated abstract art and hurl text-message fragments onto dozens of tiny display screens. “Decode is about demystifying the black art or magic of digital while showing that this work can be poetic, emotional and poignant,” show co-curator Shane R.J. Wired.com conducted e-mail interviews with 10 artists to gain insight into the uses of software as a creative visual medium.
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches - Smashing Magazine Information goes out to play Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless. E-mails. News. In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. The approach is simple: apply the rules of visual design to information - make information into images, rather than text. So, instead of listing the mind-boggling billions spent by governments, show them graphically - like The Billion Dollar O Gram image at the top of the page. The image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. Or, in another example, instead of explaining the connection between say, mercury and the influenza jab, depict it visually. SOURCE: David McCandless And instead of leaving your data just sitting in a spreadsheet, let it out to play - use it to structure a visual image. I don't just mean data and statistics.
Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking Let’s start with what most people probably can agree. Information is accumulating online. The amount of available information is increasing at an exponential rate, some say it doubles every second year. Most people know this, yet that is exactly exactly what we all seem to be doing. There is no shortage of content aggregators and aggregators of aggregators, daily developed to give us a better overview of all the sources of information we have subscribed to and found ourselves now depending on. This has resulted in an endless stream of articles, news, pictures, websites, products, updates, comments of updates and comments to these comments, being delivered to us second by second that each of us have to deal with. It almost seems like an obsession and many critics of digital technology would argue that by consuming information this way we are running the danger of destroying social interaction between humans. The digital space is real but different. It’s not without problems though.
#ParisIsBack - THE PARIS TECH GUIDE MindMapping: Mind Maps, PDF Management and Reference Management Are you using mind mapping tools such as MindManager, FreeMind or XMind? And reference management tools such as JabRef, Endnote, or Zotero? And do you sometimes even create bookmark in PDFs? SciPlore MindMapping is the first mind mapping tool focusing on researchers’ needs by integrating mind mapping with reference and pdf management. Adding Reference Keys Manually This feature allows assigning a reference key to a mind map’s node. SciPlore MindMapping is based on FreeMind (0.9 RC7 Max) and 100% compatible to FreeMind. When you install SciPlore MindMapping you will be asked if you want to allow (anonymous) usage statistics. New York - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps for New York close It's Mapnificent shows you the area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time. You may be interested to watch a video about what Mapnificent can do, read a blog post about how Mapnificent works or jump to the Mapnificent API Documentation. Mapnificent was originally inspired by MySociety's Mapumental which is sadly still in private beta.
Eight cool social media infographics | Blog Yesterday I noticed quite cool infographic being passed around online. Made by the guys at Trendstream, it maps social media access and involvement around the world. I love infographics. I think they’re a smart, creative way of displaying data in a way that’s easy to understand and is engaging. I’ve also noticed that they seem to be becoming more common, permeating not only technical subjects, where they seem to have originated from, but other areas, such as mainstream media, design and of course, the internet. So, inspired by the newest of social media infographics, I thought it might be useful to collect some of the better examples in one place as a source of inspiration and information. The World Map of Social Networks Building a Company with Social Media Facebook vs. Map of Online Communities (2007) The Life Cycle of a Blog The Conversation Prism Gender Balance on Social Networking Sites