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Todd Heisler/The New York Times CITY OF ANGLES The street grid gave developers and, later, tourists order, access and predictability. It has proved surprisingly resilient, accommodating motor vehicles and Central Park. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, the city’s street commissioners certified the no-frills street matrix that heralded New York’s transformation into the City of Angles — the rigid 90-degree grid that spurred unprecedented development, gave birth to vehicular gridlock and defiant jaywalking, and spawned a new breed of entrepreneurs who would exponentially raise the value of Manhattan’s real estate. Today, debate endures about the grid, which mapped out 11 major avenues and 155 crosstown streets along which modern Manhattan would rise. The grid was the great leveler.
By shifting millions of cubic yards of earth and rock, it carved out modest but equal flat lots (mostly 25 by 100 feet) available for purchase. But some have reservations. Data artists: Visualisation as a gateway drug. From erogenous zones to sock drawers, gurus of data visualisation Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas tell Peter Aldhous about the science and art of democratising data You present data sets in a variety of visual ways. Is your work art, information science, design or something else? Martin Wattenberg: We don't stress about labels. Sometimes what we do ends up being art, sometimes science, and sometimes design. Fernanda Viégas: It's more about revealing the interesting patterns in data. (Image: Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas) Your Many Eyes project provided tools for people to upload and visualise their own data sets.
MW: We are not there yet, but I am optimistic we will make it. Visualisation is a gateway drug to statistics. FV: One of the things that gave me hope when we launched Many Eyes was to see kids using it. Can data visualisation tell stories that have never been told? MW: Sure. Are these moments of revelation contagious? Were there any surprises? Radicalcartography. Social Marketing Compass by Brian Solis and JESS3. In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers. iA » Cosmic 140—Final Beta. Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram. Last week, the BBC cuts made all the headlines: it is closing two radio stations, capping spending on sports events, and slashing other costs.
All to generate extra revenue for programming. As ever, it's a little hard to understand all the abstract figures from the BBC budget. Does the BBC give good value for money? What does it spend on Mad Men and other shows? How does its budget compare to other broadcasters? Hopefully the BBC-O-Gram will help put the figures in context. For more detail and extra figures, explore the data: About me I run the website InformationIsBeautiful.net, dedicated to visualising information, ideas, stories and data.
My book of infographic exploria, Information Is Beautiful. World government data Search the world's government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk. VizLib pioneers data visualisation of library users - Library & Information Update blog. Mapping of library use in Leicestershire – as part of the 5-month vizLib project – could lead to a revolution in library service improvement. The vizLib project crunched through 2.5m Talis records to turn them into maps that can be morphed and animated.
This has opened up new dimensions on user data, that don't emerge from the numbers alone (though the short time-scale, and limited funding, mean that potential impacts on policy are not fully clear). A public workshop to present the project already has 40 people interested nationally (with some on its waiting list), without any advertising. The staff member behind this (unique?) Project, Robert Radburn, has even won an 'Improvement and Development Award' at a council awards ceremony. “vizLib has given us an unprecedented understanding of the way in which the people of Leicestershire use our library services,” says Robert. I've not delved into Robert's research, but this certainly seems to be the kind of thing Leicestershire have done. Galerie de stefanomaggi. Task Force: Haiti Earthquake - Crisis Mappers Net. Urban Mobs. Infographic of the Day: Flow Chart of Obama's Health-Care Plan | Design & Innovation.
President Obama gets a lot of credit for mounting a presidential campaign--and government--that uses 21st century technologies in an unprecedented ways, from his online organizing and fund-raising efforts to his government transparency initiative. But he remains as musty as John Adams, in at least one respect: His insistence to use speeches alone, unaided by charts or graphs, to get his point across. As Ezra Klein, a health-care blogger for the Washington Post writes: Congressmen routinely use graphs to illustrate points in their floor speeches or arguments around legislation. But presidents don't much use graphs. Now, no one is suggesting that flow charts and graphs would have the power to define the debate. Why shouldn't last week's address to Congress have been accompanied by a couple charts? As Klein points out, Ross Perot gained tremendous momentum during his 1992 presidential run by using charts during presentations.
Well, President Obama? Internet Mapping Project : un album. 30 Artistic and Creative Résumés. In these tough economic times, many designers find themselves applying for jobs and freelance gigs on a regular basis. So, how can we stand out from the rest and grab the attention of a design agency when they’re usually bombarded with hundreds of applications? The best way to do this is in the design of your resume. Assuming that you have the skills that they’re looking for, a striking and visually appealing resume will go a long way at getting you the creative job that you want. In the worst case scenario, it will at least buy you a few seconds by catching the eye of a recruiter and may become the difference between getting hired or not.
In this article, we’ll take a look at 30 creative resumes that can inspire you to think outside the box when designing your own resume. This post is sponsored by Sensational Jobs, the job board for designers. Which ones were your favorites? Les retrouvailles mapping-experts. (documentation) > Nos documents cartes de voeux - Brainsfeed - Intelligence économique et Veille. Bed maps. We leave maps behind in our wake. An unmade bed is a sort of map, a map of the night, where we spend about a third of our day. I'm not sure what it says, whether the bed is more territory than map, but a photograph of the bed is more map than territory: it is flat and rectilinear and it suggests topography, geography, movement.
For all the stillness of sleep, sleep shakes up the landscape. A bed is a place, one of the more important (if judged by time spent in it) of our lives. We start our days here. As an experiment of sorts I'm taking photographs of our bed before it's made in the morning. Decision Trees & Data Mining | Tutorial & Resources. Book Chapter. Visualization has proven to be an effective strategy for supporting users in coping with complexity in knowledge- and information-rich scenarios. Up to now, however, information visualization and knowledge visualization have been distinct research areas, which have been developed independently of each other. This book aims toward bringing both approaches together and looking for synergies, which may be used for fostering learning, instruction, and problem solving. This introductory article seeks to provide a conceptual framework and a preview of the contributions of this volume.
The most important concepts referred to in this book are defined and a conceptual rationale is provided as to why visualization may be effective in fostering, processing and managing knowledge and information. The basic ideas underlying knowledge visualization and information visualization are outlined. Les séminaires Mitic - semitics jimdo page! Anagrammes de Métro. Iván Skvarca m'a signalé un site Web proposant des cartes de métro dans lesquelles les noms de stations ont été remplacés par des anagrammes. S'étonnant que cela n'ait pas encore été effectué pour le métro parisien, il m'a suggéré de m'y lancer.
En fait, Michel Clavel avait déjà anagrammatisé plusieurs portes de Paris dans son livre Paris en jeux paru fin 2005, et il m'a aussi informé que l'oulipienne Michelle Grangaud a publié en 1990 un recueil de poèmes anagrammatiques sur les stations du métro parisien. En 1999, elle a même présenté cinq de ses anagrammes comme s'il s'agissait d'un fragment de plan, et Alain Chevrier m'a appris que la RATP l'a affiché quelque temps dans le métro. Mais comme Nicolas Graner m'a aimablement (ou sadiquement !) Envoyé la liste des ~300 noms de stations, je n'ai pas résisté au masochisme de les anagrammatiser moi-même. Si les anagrammes vous amusent, il est probable que les pangrammes vous intéresseront aussi. Retour à mes exercices oulipiens de début 2006. Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature. Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays in a book | munterbund.de.
An Atlas of Cyberspaces. This is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces. These maps of Cyberspaces - cybermaps - help us visualise and comprehend the new digital landscapes beyond our computer screen, in the wires of the global communications networks and vast online information resources. The cybermaps, like maps of the real-world, help us navigate the new information landscapes, as well being objects of aesthetic interest. They have been created by 'cyber-explorers' of many different disciplines, and from all corners of the world. Some of the maps you will see in the Atlas of Cyberspaces will appear familiar, using the cartographic conventions of real-world maps, however, many of the maps are much more abstract representations of electronic spaces, using new metrics and grids.
The atlas comprises separate pages, covering different types of cybermaps. (© Copyright - Martin Dodge, 2007. NewsMaps - Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Map of the Month. NewsMaps: Topographic Mapping of Information NewsMaps are one of best examples of information mapping available on the Web today. They are also among the most map-like of information maps, borrowing literally and liberally from the cartographer's toolbox.
The attractive and interactive NewsMaps maps provide a 'big picture' summary of large volumes of textual information represented as hills, valleys and white, snow capped, mountain peaks–a cartographic form common on topographic maps of the real world. They provide daily maps of international news, US news, and technology news [1]. NewsMaps was developed as a high profile 'show-and-tell' website to demonstrate the power of ThemeScape information analysis and mapping technology developed by Cartia, Inc. [2]. Developing graphical methods to represent the three-dimensional form of terrain on flat paper maps has long been a challenge in cartography [3].
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