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Infographic of the Day: Google's Wiz of Data Viz Creates High Tech Weather "Cloud" | Co.Design
The next time you fly into the San Jose airport on a trip to pump VCs for cash, look up and you might see eCloud, a new data visualization that shows weather patterns from around the world. The hanging installation, created by Aaron Koblin, Nik Hafermas, and Dan Goods, is composed of a series of LCD-embedded plastic panels, which collectively look something like an 8-bit cloud shifting under the weather's influence -- at certain times, for example, it can appear to be an angry thundercloud, at others it looks like fog. Every few minutes, the cloud depicts the weather in a different city, and a nearby computer gives you precise details about what's going on. The shimmering effect arises because each panel turns opaque when electricity passes through it.
Autodesk University 2010 Showcases Impact of Great Design | Business Wire
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--In its 18th year, Autodesk University , the annual user conference for Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software , brought together a record number of attendees, with nearly 30,000 designers, engineers, architects and digital artists, as well as members of the news media, industry analyst and investment communities, from more than 72 countries gathering at the live conferences in Las Vegas, Tokyo, Beijing and through AU Virtual . “Great design has always had an impact, but today, the need for that impact is greater than ever. We are facing urgent and complex global challenges that demand our most creative work and innovative solutions” During the three-day Las Vegas conference, attendees were exposed to innovations in 3D design technologies and witnessed the positive impact of design and technology through industry keynotes, customer exhibits and presentations.
We've written a lot this year about the boom in e-readers and the benefits that e-books have over print . And often, discussions surrounding the move to digital texts involves our enhanced ability to read and store our libraries, particularly via mobile devices. But a new project available in Google Labs today - Books Ngram Viewer - highlights some of the other benefits of digitizing texts beyond better reading and storage. So let me invoke my former life as a literature PhD student here to say, "This is incredibly farking cool." Visualizing the History of the Usage of 500 Billion Words Using Google's Books Ngram Viewer, you can now visualize how language and literature have changed over time, by searching a subset of the more than 15 million books that Google has digitized since 2004.
New Visualization Tool from Google With Data From 5.2 Million Digitized Books
Big information graphics have been around for a long time. They've come in the form of maps, visualization, art, signs, etc. That was all on paper though. In the past couple of years, humongous, gigantic, and often really long infographics have found their way onto the computer screen, through blogs and news sites.
The Boom of Big Infographics
twitter maze - chronotext.org
A spiral shaped maze is generated using the top trending topics from Twitter during the last 24 hours. The whole maze is a suite of blocks (one for each topic, 20 topics for each hour), starting from the center (the most recent topics) and spiraling outwards. The height of each block is relative to the frequency of appearance (24 hours wise) of the topic it represents.
The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage sector is overwhelming, and their inter-relationships further complicate the situation. This visual map of the metadata landscape is intended to assist planners with the selection and implementation of metadata standards. Each of the 105 standards listed here is evaluated on its strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose. The strength of a standard in a given category is determined by a mixture of its adoption in that category, its design intent, and its overall appropriateness for use in that category. The standards represented here are among those most heavily used or publicized in the cultural heritage community, though certainly not all standards that might be relevant are included. A small set of the metadata standards plotted on the main visualization also appear as highlights above the graphic.
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Software Studies: Science and Popular Science magazines, 1872-2007
William Huber, Tara Zepel, Lev Manovich. 2010. This project explores changing strategies in use of images, layout, and content of two magazines: Science (1880-) and Popular Science (1872-). By arranging thousands of magazine pages into s single high resolution image, we are able to reveal gradual temporal changes over long historical periods. Now lets zoom and compare the first few decades of Time and Popular Science magazines. At first, Science includes photographs and hand crafted illustrations. These images are the legitimate parts of the process of creating scientific knowledge.
“Synthetic Gyrus” by Tony DeVarco (dedicated to innovator, inspirator and astronomer Owen Durden) Today’s world of increasing complexity and rapid globalization leaves us thirsting for new metaphors, analogies and emblems – those that can encapsulate the complex challenges we face into an image of clarity we can wrap our minds around. As the stakes of our collective behavior rise, this new image must both shock our sensibilities and inspire us into action.
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Noah Raford » Emergent Futures Mapping with Futurescaper
Futurescaper is an online tool for making sense of the drivers, trends and forces that will shape the future. As a user interface system, it still needs development. As a tool for analyzing and understanding complex systems, it works very well and does something I have yet to see anything else be able to do. Several people asked me about this after my last post, so here is some more detail.
Browse Maps Exhibit Info See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at your venue. Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale.
Places and Spaces :: Mapping Science
Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner.