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My Library. Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee. Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality in Education | Educational Applications of AR. FlowingData | Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics. ChemDoodle | Chemical Drawing Software. Datavisualization. The New Web Timeline Tool in Town. The coders over at ProPublica, a leading source for independent investigative journalism, have released their new TimelineSetter tool under an open license. The tool takes a list of comma separate values (you can follow their example) containing the content for the timeline and spits out a web page to display it, complete with the various additional files needed to display it on any old web server. When these files are uploaded to your server the result are timelines that look like this. Sounds great, doesn’t it?

Well for some, it may take a little time to get up and running. First, the tool runs on Ruby, and you need to install it from the command line. On the Mac or most distros of Linux, this is often as easy as entering “gem install timeline_setter” from a terminal application. There may be complications along the way, though. Timeline-setter -c /path/to/data.csv -o /path/to/output/directory -a timeline-setter -c ~/Desktop/timeline.txt -o ~/Desktop/timeline -a Return to Top. Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky.

Timelines

Cool Infographics - Blog. Intel has released What About Me? , an automatic infographic generator that connects to your own Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts to create a profile infographic about you. Social media users know that discovery is half the fun. With What about Me? You can capture a snapshot of your social media life and create your own colorful image, full of clues and facts about one of the most fascinating subjects in the world — YOU! In general, I’m not a fan of automatically generated infographics. I find them repetitive, like PowerPoint templates, and that makes everyone’s information look the same.

This one at least incorporates a few photos of your own to give a little personal touch, but not much. From a design perspective, the “About Me” section is the big central visual element. In the “How I put it out there” section, the bars are all portions of the total 100%, so a pie chart or a stacked bar would have been a better chart style to use in the design. Found on Mashable.

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