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Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens » Nieman Journalism Lab
Data nerds from government and academia gathered Friday at Northeastern University to show off the latest version of Weave , an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize “any available data by anyone for any purpose.”
Fascinating New Visualization From Yahoo!
A new tool from Yahoo! gives you a glimpse of what’s being read on its homepage, as well as what’s popular from the last 24 hours. It’s actually a gorgeous display that lets you see different breakdowns of who’s viewing what, when, and why.
Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity | Brain Pickings
Manuel Lima , founder of data visualization portal Visual Complexity , author of the indispensable information visualization bible of the same name, and one of the most intelligent people I know, recently gave an excellent talk on the power of networks at the RSA. Using examples that span from the Dewey Decimal System to Wikipedia, Manuel explores the evolving organization of knowledge and information, and the shift from hierarchical structures to distributed lateral networks. Networks are really becoming a cultural meme in their own right.
Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, it can tease out multiple patterns hidden in health information from around the globe, statistics amassed from a season of major league baseball, data on the changing bacterial landscape of the gut, and much more. The researchers report their findings in a paper appearing in the December 16 issue of the journal Science .I’m endlessly fascinated by the intersection of sight and sound and have a well-documented alphabet book fetish . So I absolutely love Shapes for sounds by Timothy Donaldson , exploring one of the most fundamental creations of human communication, the alphabet, through a fascinating journey into “why alphabets look like they do, what has happened to them since printing was invented, why they won’t ever change, and how it might have been.”
Shapes for Sounds: A Visual History of the Alphabet | Brain Pickings
A new visualization by travel writer Osman Khan charts the “Evolution of Western Dance Music,” tracing music through time and space from Africa and the Caribbean through the development of the Blues, Jazz, Funk, Disco, and, well, you know the story.
Visualization: The Spread of Dance Music - Forbes
There are no words to describe how much I heart the work of information designer Stefanie Posavec , whose Writing Without Words project remains one of the most poetic pieces of visual meta-storytelling you’ll ever see and who last year generously visualized the best of Brain Pickings .
Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization | Brain Pickings
This visualization explores the ups and downs of the Bible narrative, using sentiment analysis to quantify when positive and negative events are happening: Full size download (.png, 4000×4000 pixels).
Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible « OpenBible.info Blog
THE NEW YORK TIMES just ran an interesting article titled ‘It’s All Connected: A Spectator’s Guide to the Euro Crisis’ and the intro ending with ‘The graphic here helps you see the intertwined complexities.’ Pretty much the same stuff – except that I challenge you to understand and gain insight from the online-version: See it here: Before reading the print-version.
