Visualization
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Stamen Design: Illustrating the physics of information
Ben Cerveny of Stamen Designs was speaking before me at the Webtrends Engage conference yesterday. Stamen, an eight-person shop in San Francisco, produces fascinating and provocative visuals from big data sets. He showed data of everything from real estate to news as squiggling, morphing blobs and lines. Sometimes it looked like cell biology, but Cerveny pointed to another science. He said Stamen was looking for rule sets for the ..."physics of information...."PeteSearch
Photo by Andrew Ferguson Common Crawl is one of those projects where I rant and rave about how world-changing it will be, and often all I get in response is a quizzical look. It's an actively-updated and programmatically-accessible archive of public web pages, with over five billion crawled so far. So what, you say? This is going to be the foundation of a whole family of applications that have never been possible outside of the largest corporations.
Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. "I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men," she says . "I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of the profiles they saw contained biblical quotes. We all live in our own worlds with people who share our values and, with networked media, it's often hard to see beyond that."
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
Microsoft Future Data Visualization, 3D Lifelike Experience and more… A picture is worth 1000 words. We all know this… if we can visualize, we can easy find something we weren’t able to see before. I was looking at some amazing futuristic videos from Microsoft about future data visualization. Look on this – I’m sure you will find it cool.
Microsoft Future Data Visualization, 3D Lifelike Experience and
Visualization: Table - Google Chart Tools / Interactive Charts (
Overview A table that can be sorted and paged. Table cells can be formatted using format strings, or by directly inserting HTML as cell values.
The Metacity Design Is How It Works I Can Do That With My Phone? 2nd Chance 4 Pets Wake Up Brain!
Note & Point
Designing Visualizations for Time-Based Data - Max Kiesler – Des
Most interaction designers understand the concept of timelines and other time-based data. Blogs, calendars, and to-do lists are all examples of time-based data. However, if you are trying to fit 400 data points into a 1024 x 726 screen you’ll quickly see how challenging time-base data can be. Currently, many interaction designers are turning to visualizations to overcome many of the issues associated with this form of data representation. Below you’ll find a list of some of the best time-based visualizations on the web. Please use the comments section of this post to let the community know of any useful resources I’ve left out.Intel has released What About Me? , an automatic infographic generator that connects to your own Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts to create a profile infographic about you. Social media users know that discovery is half the fun. With What about Me? you can capture a snapshot of your social media life and create your own colorful image, full of clues and facts about one of the most fascinating subjects in the world — YOU! In general, I’m not a fan of automatically generated infographics.
Cool Infographics - Cool Infographics
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) – istartedso
When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what’s possible, but they also invest so much into communicating these ideas through sights and sounds which the production value can be compared to most blockbuster sci-fi films. Today at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop unveiled the latest production from Microsoft Office Labs called “2019″ , starring stock photo men, women and children playing with the next-generation of communication, collaboration and production technologies. ( via Steve Clayton )Gesture-based computer interfaces are almost a reality, says John Underkoffler, who led the team that dreamed up the version shown in the 2002 science-fiction movie. Read more…