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Todd Heisler/The New York Times CITY OF ANGLES The street grid gave developers and, later, tourists order, access and predictability. It has proved surprisingly resilient, accommodating motor vehicles and Central Park. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, the city’s street commissioners certified the no-frills street matrix that heralded New York’s transformation into the City of Angles — the rigid 90-degree grid that spurred unprecedented development, gave birth to vehicular gridlock and defiant jaywalking, and spawned a new breed of entrepreneurs who would exponentially raise the value of Manhattan’s real estate. Today, debate endures about the grid, which mapped out 11 major avenues and 155 crosstown streets along which modern Manhattan would rise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/nyregion/21grid.html?nl=nyregion&emc=ura1
From erogenous zones to sock drawers, gurus of data visualisation Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas tell Peter Aldhous about the science and art of democratising data Fernanda Viégas: It's more about revealing the interesting patterns in data. Visualisation is a very broad and expressive medium. It's like writing: when you write you can be doing anything from hard science to poetry.
Data artists: Visualisation as a gateway drug
Social Marketing Compass by Brian Solis and JESS3 | VizWorld.com
Social Marketing Compass by Brian Solis and JESS3 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! . Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers
31 May 2010 Last updated at 08:10 GMT Continue reading the main story The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released. Use this graphic to explore the world's fastest number crunchers or find out more about alternative supercomputer powers . The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation come from a draft of the June 2010 TOP500 Supercomputing list.
Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram
Information is beautiful on the BBC. Click image for the full graphic Last week, the BBC cuts made all the headlines: it is closing two radio stations, capping spending on sports events, and slashing other costs. All to generate extra revenue for programming. My book of infographic exploria, Information Is Beautiful . It's published by HarperCollins.
vizLib pioneers data visualisation of library users - Library & Information Update blog
Mapping of library use in Leicestershire – as part of the 5-month vizLib project – could lead to a revolution in library service improvement. The vizLib project crunched through 2.5m Talis records to turn them into maps that can be morphed and animated. This has opened up new dimensions on user data, that don't emerge from the numbers alone (though the short time-scale, and limited funding, mean that potential impacts on policy are not fully clear). A public workshop to present the project already has 40 people interested nationally (with some on its waiting list), without any advertising. The staff member behind this (unique?)Urban Mobs
Nous vous invitons à découvrir sur ce site les visualisations réalisées pour les villes de quatre pays européens. Ces réalisations sont aussi présentées à l'occasion de l'exposition “ Dans la nuit, des images ” au Grand Palais du 18 au 31 décembre 2008 de 17h à 1h. Plus d'infos - Contactez-nous Lors des grands événements populaires, les outils de communication modernes deviennent un vecteur privilégié pour partager ses émotions. Que ce soit la fête de la musique ou la nuit du réveillon en France, la nuit de la Saint-Jean en Pologne ou l'euphorie d'un match de football en Espagne et en Roumanie, les villes s'animent et vivent selon leur rythme propre.
Infographic of the Day: Flow Chart of Obama's Health-Care Plan | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
We know charts and infographics have unequaled power to convince and explain. So why aren't they playing a bigger role in the health-care debate? President Obama gets a lot of credit for mounting a presidential campaign--and government--that uses 21st century technologies in an unprecedented ways, from his online organizing and fund-raising efforts to his government transparency initiative. But he remains as musty as John Adams, in at least one respect: His insistence to use speeches alone, unaided by charts or graphs, to get his point across. As Ezra Klein, a health-care blogger for the Washington Post writes : Congressmen routinely use graphs to illustrate points in their floor speeches or arguments around legislation.
In these tough economic times, many designers find themselves applying for jobs and freelance gigs on a regular basis. So, how can we stand out from the rest and grab the attention of a design agency when they’re usually bombarded with hundreds of applications? The best way to do this is in the design of your resume. Assuming that you have the skills that they’re looking for, a striking and visually appealing resume will go a long way at getting you the creative job that you want.
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We leave maps behind in our wake. An unmade bed is a sort of map, a map of the night, where we spend about a third of our day. I'm not sure what it says, whether the bed is more territory than map, but a photograph of the bed is more map than territory: it is flat and rectilinear and it suggests topography, geography, movement. For all the stillness of sleep, sleep shakes up the landscape.