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New York City Subway System Comes Alive in HTML5 & Javascript. If you live in New York City, you most likely have a love/hate relationship with the subway (one that tends to wander toward "hate" more often than not). Well, Brooklynite, musician and Google Creative Labs employee Alexander Chen has created a little HTML5/Javascript art project that is sure to put a smile on your face next time you're crammed into a crazy person's armpit whilst enjoying the eclectic symphony of children crying on your morning commute. Conductor, Chen's recently released project, is an interactive subway map that pulls data from the MTA’s public API to illustrate the motions of the New York City transit system. Colored lines representing each train move across the screen in accordance with the real cars, and every time they intersect, they produce a "twang!

" — like a stringed instrument. You can also "play" the map by tugging on a line with your mouse. "I've also always liked the idea of inanimate objects generating music, coming alive," he adds. You mean like the G? Gource - Project Hosting on Google Code. Gource is a software version control visualization tool. See more of Gource in action on the Videos page. Introduction Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Currently Gource includes built-in log generation support for Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN (as of 0.29). Synopsis view the log of the repository (Git, SVN, Mercurial and Bazaar) in the current path: gource Donations If you like Gource and would like to show your appreciation and encourage future work on this and other open source projects by the author, please consider making a donation!

Bitcoin: 15WP34zkaZFJCyzCAKLt9qrWSvDuBN7XLv Related Software You may also want to check out Logstalgia, a web server access log visualization tool. News 14 April 2014 Gource 0.41 has been released. You can now specify a date range directly with --start-date and --stop-date (using 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss' ISO format). 26 April 2013.

Royal Pingdom » Awesome visualizations of internet and web tech. Posted in Tech blog on November 25th, 2010 by Pingdom Text and numbers are all good and well, but sometimes it’s nice to just be presented with a nice visual. This post is full of videos of just that, interesting visualizations of data. Being the geeks we are, they’re of course all related to the Web and the Internet. Enjoy! The work done by a web server Someone put this great video together using the website access log visualizer Logstalgia. More website traffic Once again, a high-traffic website access log visualization, this time using another tool, Gource (which we’ll show more from later).

Website traffic… bubbles? Interesting website access log visualization using glTail. 24 hours of traffic to the New York Times website A pretty cool visualization, mapping the location of the site’s visitors as the hours change. Web traffic meets genetics Here’s another interesting visualization, creating an “organism” based on the access pattern to a website. 11 seconds of Twitter Tag clouds on Twitter. Your Random Numbers – Getting Started with Processing and Data Visualization.

Over the last year or so, I’ve spent almost as much time thinking about how to teach data visualization as I’ve spent working with data. I’ve been a teacher for 10 years – for better or for worse this means that as I learn new techniques and concepts, I’m usually thinking about pedagogy at the same time. Lately, I’ve also become convinced that this massive ‘open data’ movement that we are currently in the midst of is sorely lacking in educational components.

The amount of available data, I think, is quickly outpacing our ability to use it in useful and novel ways. How can basic data visualization techniques be taught in an easy, engaging manner? This post, then, is a first sketch of what a lesson plan for teaching Processing and data visualization might look like. I’m going to start from scratch, work through some examples, and (hopefully) make some interesting stuff. Let’s Start With the Data We’re not going to work with an old, dusty data set here. Got it? Now we see the two compared: Data visualization for the social networked impaired. I've been thinking a lot about data visualization, meaning things like the Internet version of those USA Today infographics and the data you get back from your site traffic analytics group. But data viz is not just about fancy Excel charts and animation; it's a discipline used to visualize information of any sort and it's becoming an increasingly important way to communicate with your audience.

Its importance, I believe, lies in its ability to reach scale, that is, helping marketers get the biggest audience possible. Our business is all about scale and we have metrics to measure it. But scale is about more than metrics -- it's about having a cultural impact, having consumers feel they're part of something larger. Using data visualization, for instance, Domino's makes it fun to track the pizza-manufacturing process.

Some data visualization is subtle, such as a number denoting the popularity of a YouTube video, which could change a user's opinion of it. But what to do? Logd.tw.rpi.

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Visualiser l’économie comme les “quants” | Owni.fr. “Quants” est le surnom donné aux analystes quantitatifs, qui manipulent au quotidien un nombre important de données dans le domaine des mathématiques financières. L’une des explications de la crise que traverse l’économie mondiale vient certainement se nicher dans les modèles utilisés par ces professionnels de la finance, dont les compétences vont des mathématiques à la physique [...] “Quants” est le surnom donné aux analystes quantitatifs, qui manipulent au quotidien un nombre important de données dans le domaine des mathématiques financières. L’une des explications de la crise que traverse l’économie mondiale vient certainement se nicher dans les modèles utilisés par ces professionnels de la finance, dont les compétences vont des mathématiques à la physique en passant par les probabilités.

Un univers étrange, que les néerlandais de onesize se sont attachés à faire vivre dans le cadre d’un documentaire sur les “quants”. Sur ce, bon week-end à toutes et tous :-) Laurent Lourenço» exemple visualisation données.