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New York Mapping by Mark Edward Campos investigates the context around a site. It helps to understand the goings on, in a 24-hour timeframe of an area in New York City.
New York Mapping | Mark Edward Campos
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Language communities of Twitter (European detail) | Flickr : partage de photos !
The above map depicts an important new geopolitical boundary: being inside and outside of Facebook. Over the last few centuries maps have focused on dividing territory into the administrative units of countries. Newer spatial realities, however, are driven by the flow or inhibition of information. One's physical location is just a single variable in the multitude of virtual projections possible in the networked world. Although the country borders may still be highly controlled, the movement of thoughts and ideas follow more fluid paths.
Station: The UnFacebook World
Visualizing Friendships | Facebook
Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it.
Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least).
Websites as graphs
We have completely run out of WTM3 posters. However, if you’re still interested in getting your hands on a Web Trend Map, Version 4 is out . We have done it before : the 200 most successful websites pinned down on the Tokyo Metro Map, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. Now we have done it again — and better. Back by popular demand: here is iA’s next Web Trend Map:
Information Architects – Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives. Read more Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books.
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FlowingData | Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics
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. The book examines corners of life (like cheating in sumo) through data.