Websites as graphs 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). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's menu. HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. I've used some color to indicate the most used tags in the following way: blue: for links (the A tag)red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)green: for the DIV tagviolet: for images (the IMG tag)yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)black: the HTML tag, the root nodegray: all other tags Here I post a couple of screenshots, and I plan to make the app available as an applet, so that anybody can look at their websites in a new way. cnn.com boingboing.net apple.com
Here & There — a horizonless projection in Manhattan Here & There is a project by BERG exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward. (The map deserves to be examined at full scale. Looking uptown from 3rd and 7th Landmarks are in gold. What's going on? Imagine a person standing at a street corner. As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. How? Jack Schulze explains... "First we take an electronic Manhattan. "The projection seen here is a combination of city manipulations in modelling software, and choosing the best lens for the simulated camera. "Annotations come after the render. Why? Because the ability to be in a city and to see through it is a superpower, and it's how maps should work. Read more 21 Feb.
Datavisualization Infographie sur internet : attirer l?attention vers les donn?es des acteurs de la solidarit? Séduisantes, efficaces, directes, facilement partageables, les infographies (ou Dataviz) ont le vent en poupe en ce moment, dans la presse classique mais aussi sur le web. Lors de l'introduction du concept dans la langue française vers les années 1970, l'infographie désigne uniquement les graphismes, que l'on appelle alors « infographies » (mot valise exprimant l'idée d'information par le graphisme), destinés à mettre en images des informations généralement statiques au moyen de diagrammes, de cartes ou de schémas. Aujourd'hui, le concept d'infographie s'est élargi à tous les graphismes produits par des moyens numériques. Des médias comme lemonde.fr ou Owni en sont friands. Histoire d'image et de sens En tant qu'image rationnelle, la représentation graphique se distingue à la fois de l'image figurative et de la mathématique. La graphique utilise le système dit monosémique. Démonstration, par l'exemple, de quelques utilisations possibles des infographies. Les images parlent directement.
Language communities of Twitter (European detail) How Fast the News Spreads Through Social Media By Sheldon Levine - Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 11:23 am ShareThis Unless you have been totally disconnected from any sort of news over the past 12 hours, you’ve no doubt heard that Osama Bin Laden has been found and killed. Barack Obama, President of the United States, made the announcement late last night, but wasn’t the first one to break the story to a lot of people. Most people who are active on Twitter (and who weren’t asleep at the time) first heard the news through the popular social network where it spread like wildfire. I first saw tweets about Bin Laden’s death start sometime around 10:30pm(EST). At first no one was sure if this was true or just an internet hoax that was taking off, but by about 10:45pm(EST) most of the TV channels had switched to some sort of coverage about it, so I knew it was real. I continued to track the progress of how the talk about Bin Laden exploded throughout the night from the time of the announcement and it went like this: Midnight(EST): 12:30am(EST):
Smart Data - Accueil Visualizing Bloodtests We were happy to win a design competition in Wired US this month. It was around re-envisioning medical data. Specifically, blood test results. Which suck, design-wise. They still look like secret missives from the CIA circa 1965. Our challenge was to approach a cholesterol level test. Then we designed it thus: Our goal wasn’t just a polish job. See a hi-res version here. (The image is creative commons. Great work too from Mucca Design and Jung Und Wenig
Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0 by Oliver Reichenstein 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. Download It! We figured that this would make a nice desktop background image as well. What’s New? First of all, the new Trend Map features many more websites than the previous one. More Consistency The different trend lines have been renamed, simplified and cleaned up. More Lines The original raster (Tokyo metro map) has been substantially modified to fit the needs of an Internet Trend Map. Less Japanese Jokes There are less insider jokes about the different stations and more consistency between the connections and the neighborhoods of the different sites. Google has moved from Shibuya, a humming place for young people, to Shinjuku, a suspicious, messy, Yakuza-controlled, but still pretty cool place to hang out (cf. More Revealing Coincidences Trend Forecast More Mistakes
40 Useful and Creative Infographics Six Revisions Menu Main Categories CSS HTML JavaScript Web Design WordPress Web Development Design Inspiration UX Design UI Design Freebies Tutorials Tools Links About Contact Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook 40 Useful and Creative Infographics By Jacob Gube Information graphics (or infographics) are graphical depictions of data and information. In this collection, you’ll find forty beautiful and educational infographics, displaying the uncommon spectacle of "art meets science". 1. The proportion of ingredients for popular coffee drinks and their pronunciation keys. 2. This infographic showcases the history of the Swine Flu, starting from 1976. 3. 4. 5. The top breweries and beers in the U.S. 6. 7. 389 Years Ago A rundown of the historic events in African-American culture. 8. 9. 10. 11. An illustrated guide at how the Global Warming phenomenon works. 13. A packed visual piece on tobacco chemicals and tobacco trade worldwide. 14. 15. 16. A graphical representation of consumer spending across the globe. 17.
Découvrez ici l’intégralité du dispositif pédagogique #dataviz_RRA #dataviz_rra est un projet pédagogique expérimental initié par la Région Rhône-Alpes et porté par Fréquence écoles. L’objectif : travailler avec des lycéens à la réalisation d’infographies à partir de données accessibles et/ou ouvertes (open data). Voici les différentes étapes et ressources qui ont permis de mener à bien ce projet : 1. le 20 février 2014, à l’Hôtel de Région Déroulé de la journée Interventions de : Dorie Bruyas : Les enjeux pédagogiques du projet #dataviz_rra du point de vue de l’éducation aux médiasSabine Blanc : Introduction à l’open data et au datajournalismeClément Renaud : Connaître et convertir les formats de donnéesAgnès Thouvenot : La cartographie avec Google fusion tables 2. le 27 février 2014, à l’Hôtel de Région 3. Mars-avril 2014 : 4 séances par classe encadrées par un journaliste-intervenant Séance 1 – Présentation du sujet, compréhension de la thématique, création des comptes, découverte de la notion de traitement et des solutions logicielles adaptées. 4. 5.
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