Greg Santos ✎ sur Twitter : "Very cool interactive #visualization of Prime Number Patterns by @jasondavies. Graphing Every* Idea In History « Griff's Graphs. Update: Graph has now been made interactive. I was originally put onto network visualisation by Simon Raper by his fantastic post graphing the history of philosophy. I’ve learned a lot in the last week and decided to be ambitious. I wanted to see what the entire network would look like – with everyone on Wikipedia. Well, everyone with an infobox containing ‘influences’ and/or ‘influenced by’.
For those unfamiliar to this work please see his post first – even if it is just for the pictures! For those new to these types of graphs: the node size represents the number of connections. To create the following graph I used a database version of Wikipedia to extract all the people with known influences. Method Caveats The graph is obviously biased towards Western ideologies and culture – the people entering in the information are after all primarily English speakers.
The Future The Network There are a few main communities (roughly): Now for some pretty pictures. The Graph Of Ideas Highlights include:
Mindmap. Socialnetworks. Mental Imagery. The Effects of Mental Imagery on Athletic Performance Annie Plessinger What is Mental Imagery? Mental imagery, also called visualization and mental rehearsal, is defined asexperience that resembles perceptual experience, but which occurs in the absence of theappropriate stimuli for the relevant perception(plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/). Whenever we imagine ourselves performing an action in the absence of physical practice, we are said to be using imagery. Claims Although sports psychology is becoming more prevalent in todays society, there is a surprising lack of web sites that endorse and offer visual imagery skills for sports.
The Importance of Mental Imagery Many sports such as golf, tennis and skating, not only require physical skills, but a strong mental game as well. How to Implement Mental Imagery There is no correct way to practice mental imagery. Studies How Mental Imagery Works Theories of Imagery Rehearsal Mechanisms Conclusion References Feltz, D. Isaac, A. Twitscoop - Search twitter, see what's hot right now. Newsmap. Update: Jan 20, 2012 My appologies for not updating this site lately. Flipboard has been keeping me a little busy. I'll try to work something out here soon, but in the meantime, you might want to say hello on Twitter, browse through a few photos here or peek into what it is like designing Flipboard. marumushi.com the life and work of Marcos Weskamp Marcos Weskamp is a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in playing with and visualizing lots of data.
He is a self-taught technologist who constantly investigates the fields of Interaction Design and Information Visualization. In March 2010, Marcos joined a yet-to-be-named startup in Palo Alto, where he designs, sketches, codes, serves coffee, washes dishes and leads the User Experience vision of a product that's going to be so awesome, it's going to blow your pants off. Marcos is based in Palo Alto, California, where right now it is Fri Jun 09, 10:17am and the weather is .contact: marcos@marumushi.com 404, Lalala, Document not found!
Tags. Data Visualizations: 5 Beautiful Social Media Videos. Data visualizations are a wonderful way to display the interactions between large groups of people within a network. Virtual places like Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr can be easier understood when you see a visual representation of their inner workings. We've chosen five fresh videos that visualize various social media ecosystems. 1. SweetNTweet If all Twitter searches were this fun, I'd probably do little else than stare at them all day. 2. This project displays a visualization of digital photos publically shared on the web by people visiting Spain. 3. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a service that harnesses the power of an on-demand human workforce. 4. One of the sponsoring companies of the Edinburgh Twestival, which happened on February 12th, used Twitter to track the networking and socializing at the event. 5. This fascinating visualization video uses data from music social network Last.fm to display the popularity of music genres in certain parts of Europe.
The video is available here. TweetGrid - by jazzychad. Twitterfall.