Motion Graphics Work That Informs: BBC Knowledge 60 Everything is a Remix episode 4, produced by Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker. "Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they’re interwoven, they're tangled." A must watch video experience. Find out more: Everything is a Remix episode 4, produced by Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker. "Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. But ideas aren't so tidy. A must watch video experience. Find out more:
Quartz/Chartbuilder 25 Best Infographics Of 2011 That Are Still Relevant Today The year of 2011 went very fast for us in the development world and I am sure some of you accomplished important things for your career during this year. But besides our personal achievements, the whole industry managed to reach something that was unthinkable around 10 years ago. To show you how the web progressed during the past year, I collected a series of infographics from the internet and hope, by the end of this article, you will realize what huge potential this year of 2012 has. 1. 60 seconds on the web This one shows what happened on the web during 2011 in a timeframe of 60 seconds, if we minimize the whole year to it. 600 new YouTube videos, almost 700,000 search queries on Google and Facebook status updates and close to 100,000 tweets should say enough about what power the internet holds nowadays. Source 2. It is easy to see how Apple, for example, disrupts today’s web. Source 3. Source 4. Source 5. Want to see some interesting information about the apps in Apple’s Store? Source 6.
Code Playground The Google APIs Explorer is a tool available on most REST API reference documentation pages that lets you try Google API methods without writing code. The APIs Explorer acts on real data, so use caution when trying methods that create, modify, or delete data. For more details, read the APIs Explorer documentation. How to start exploring Click the name of the API you want to explore in the list below. Google APIs Explorer Directory Ebola. Notre chronologie interactive pour suivre l'épidémie - Data Le Temps Début de l'épidémie Janvier est considéré comme le premier mois de l’épidémie Ebola en Afrique de l'Ouest. Patient Zéro D’après une enquête de New England Journal of Medicine, le patient zéro serait un petit garçon habitant d'une zone rurale du sud-est de la Guinée. Ebola atteint Conakry Le 25 mars, Ebola atteint la capitale de la Guinée, Conakry, peuplée de 2 millions d’habitants. Un virus meurtrier Le virus Ebola fait partie de la famille des fièvres hémorragiques africaines, qui détruisent le système immunitaire de la victime. Une propagation par contact Le virus se propage d'homme à homme par contact direct ou par avec des liquides biologiques (sang, salive, sueur, sperme, vomissures, matières fécales). Les soignants touchés Le nombre de décès s’élèvent à plus de 150 personnes. L'épidémie s'étend à la Sierra Leone L’épidémie s’étend à la Sierra Leone. Les chauves-souris, réservoir du virus Plus de 350 décès Le bilan dépasse désormais les 350 morts. Ebola accélère Le virus à Lagos 1300 victimes
Why “Infographic Thinking” Is The Future, Not A Fad We get a lot of infographic pitches. Almost all of them suck. Why? Because while they may well be "information plus graphics," they often lack what designer Francesco Franchi calls "infographic thinking." This isn’t just "how to make some numbers and vector graphics look clever together." Franchi issues a lot of wisdom we’ve heard before--"If we don’t have content, we can’t have design," "You have to be informative but also entertain the reader," etc. "Infographic thinking" doesn’t let designers to interpret a narrative visually; it lets them invite the viewer [to] join in the process of interpretation, too. [via Stellar Interesting; Image: Jakub Krechowicz/Shutterstock]
HelpMeViz - Helping people with everyday data visualizations The Joy of Stats About the video Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010. The change from large to small families reflects dramatic changes in peoples lives. Hans Rosling asks: Has the UN gone mad? Hans Rosling explains a very common misunderstanding about the world: That saving the poor children leads to overpopulation.
As Map Complexity Cartographer | Data Curious Notebook J'ai du bon data | Accès, traitement et présentation des données par le pôle Décryptages du Monde.fr Christopher Donohue: Information in a multi dimensional and empowered way By Christopher DonohueIt is such an exhilarating time in which a significant number of the global collective now have access to an abundance of information via the web and social platforms. However, some suffer from information overload. Many also think that information can only reside in books, online text or in documents (Word, Excel, presentations, and databases). But imagine information graphically represented, to help you break through the information flood and enable you and your team to focus on what information and tools are truly needed. Bottlenose assists with information overload with flexible, deep dive feed customisation options and via the sonar visualisation of topics. Written content © 2012 Christopher Donohue, FourBuckets.
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools How to Make an Interactive Network Visualization Networks! They are all around us. The universe is filled with systems and structures that can be organized as networks. Recently, we have seen them used to convict criminals, visualize friendships, and even to describe cereal ingredient combinations. We can understand their power to describe our complex world from Manuel Lima's wonderful talk on organized complexity. Now let's learn how to create our own. In this tutorial, we will focus on creating an interactive network visualization that will allow us to get details about the nodes in the network, rearrange the network into different layouts, and sort, filter, and search through our data. In this example, each node is a song. Try out the visualization on different songs to see how the different layouts and filters look with the different graphs. Technology This visualization is a JavaScript based web application written using the powerful D3 visualization library. jQuery is also used for some DOM element manipulation. Functions