Project: Redesign the Food Label - Food We all read food labels, but we're not always sure what they mean or how to use them. We want to change that. So does Michelle Obama. Now, GOOD and the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 project are asking designers, nutritionists, and food policy experts to redesign the food label, and we want your help. the OBJECTIVE Inspire better food and nutrition literacy with clear, simple, easy-to-understand labels. the ASSIGNMENT Redesign the food label. the REQUIREMENTS Please submit your design here—as a JPG image, 450 pixels wide, and less than 1 MB in size. The winning entries will be selected by GOOD's staff, News21's Rethink the Food Label, and a panel of nutrition experts, food writers, and designers—including Michael Pollan and Laura Brunow Miner. The winner will be announced on July 15 and featured on both our homepage and News21's website. In the upcoming weeks, News21 will highlight collaborations between nutritionists and designers here.
Kartograph.org IDV Solutions | How It Applies Visualization and situational awareness for managing critical events How Visual Command Center works Leveraging a single, unified, and integrated view for managing and responding to enterprise risk, Visual Command Center enables enterprises to gain situational awareness and risk resilience on an unprecedented scale. Through real-time threat intelligence, situational awareness, and integrated response and collaboration across the enterprise, security and risk professionals can better mitigate or eliminate the impact of critical events to their organization. These critical events can span across multiple use cases such as Life Safety & Security, Business Continuity, and Supply Chain Management. Visual Command Center serves as the visualization and orchestration engine for the Everbridge Critical Event Management Platform streamlining the steps of Assess, Locate, Act, and Analyze, thereby enabling organizations to better manage operational risk. Gain a common operating picture Avoid costs
Part 1: The essential collection of visualisation resources This is the first part of a multi-part series designed to share with readers an inspiring collection of the most important, effective, useful and practical data visualisation resources. The series will cover visualisation tools, resources for sourcing and handling data, online learning tutorials, visualisation blogs, visualisation books and academic papers. Your feedback is most welcome to help capture any additions or revisions so that this collection can live up to its claim as the essential list of resources. This first part presents the data visualisation tools associated with conducting analysis, creating effective graphs and implementing business intelligence operations. Please note, I may not have personally used all tools presented but have seen sufficient evidence of their value from other sources. Microsoft Excel Find out more information | Cost: Trial > under £100/$150 per license | Tags: Spreadsheet, Office, Graphing Status: Ongoing (July 7, 2011) Open Office Calc Tableau Desktop
Part 8: The essential collection of visualisation resources This is part of a series of posts to share with readers a useful collection of some of the most important, effective and practical data visualisation resources. This post presents the first part of a collection of books that have had most influence on my knowledge about data visualisation and its many closely-related subject areas. The selection presented includes only the books I own or I have read from a library – I have decided to exclude any books I’ve not yet read, even if they might be on other reading lists. The categories used to organise and group the books simply represents an instinctive and personal view for how they have proven valuable to me – I appreciate they could be/will be argued, debated and refined but it will never be perfect! ** If some of the images fail to display (especially in Internet Explorer), click refresh ** Visual Perception and Visual Design Communication Design That completes the eighth part of this collection of essential visualisation resources.
Open Data Tools - Tools Data Wikidata Large free knowledge base and repository for structured data for the Wikipedia. Quadrigram Professional platform with paid plans for creating customized data visualizations. Quandl Search engine for financial, economic and social datasets. GeoCommons Toolkit, community and service around the visualization and sharing of geodata. TED - Open Data Talk (Tim Berners Lee) "The year open data went worldwide". OpenGeoData Blog and podcast about open maps, data and OpenStreetMap. data.gov.uk - Blogs Open data blogs on data.gov.uk. Stackoverflow - Overview Scraping Solutions Overview on coding questions site Stackoverflow with different HTML scraping solutions for various programming languages. Mechanize (Perl/Python/Ruby) Library with versions in Perl, Python and Ruby for the automating interaction with websites and for website scraping. Nokogiri (Ruby) Ruby library for scraping web pages. Django Dynamic Scraper (Python/Django) Scrapy (Python) Scraping and web crawling framework for Python.
Visualising Data » Training Exponential advances in technology have provided us with ubiquitous means for creating, recording and mobilising incredible amounts of data. Where once data was scarce, now it is captured in abundance. Our attitudes as consumers have also evolved. Whilst we have access to fantastic tools and widespread capabilities for data handling and analysis, the techniques required to most effectively display and communicate data are somewhat neglected. This is where data visualisation comes in. Data visualisation is both an art and a science. The objective of these training courses is to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to contemporary data visualisation design. Events can be delivered in half-day, one-day or two-day formats. The course will also include exercise opportunities to work on individual and group visualisation exercises: Here is an indicative agenda for the one-day training course. My training schedule is entirely based around where the demand is.
Jerome Cukier Visualization Blog Treasure hunting for the whole family - Chatham Daily News - Ontario, CA Ever heard of Geocaching? Neither did I until Friday. Geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure-hunting game. The idea is to use a GPS-enabled smartphone to track down your booty. And there's booty all over Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, and around the world. Then again, the booty won't likely knock your socks off. But kids like it. I took Friday off to spend the P.A. day with my daughter and her cousin. After three days of rain, it was nice to get outdoors Friday, even under overcast skies, and with that cool wind out of the northwest. Uncle Steven pulled out his iPhone and found the nearest stash - about half a mile to the south. Off we went, on foot through residential subdivisions. After snaking through The Maples, we closed in on the paths beside the drain (I hate calling creeks such things as "drains"). Despite the fact our first foray ended in failure, our spirits remained undaunted. And we weren't disappointed. If you want to learn more, go to Hmm.
Blog + News A Family Workshop in Critical 3D Printing: Concepts, Techniques, and Workflows Developed by Golan Levin and Gustavo Valera Originally commissioned by Alhondiga de Bilbao, July 2013 as an activity accompanying the exhibition Artists as Catalysts. Presented in another iteration at FutureEverything, Manchester, March 2014 OverviewThe rapidly decreasing cost and widespread adoption of 3D printers has been aided and accompanied by new software applications that make 3D modeling simpler for everyday people. This workshop is designed for 8-12 participants. This workshop is suitable for families. Basic workshop equipment assumptions. The host organization and/or workshop leader should have available:Mac OSX laptop with OSX 10.8+ and Google Chrome browser installedMakerbot Replicator or similar consumer 3D printer (ideally, 2 printers)Internet connection and video projector Optional additional equipment provided by the host/leader: Workshop Software Primary Workshop Software: Makerbot Makerware.
Touch: Method To produce a collective portrait of desire, we polled hundreds of people’s opinions about parts of the body. To do so, we teamed up with Dolores Labs to crowdsource the data gathering step through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site—a marketplace where paid workers perform simple tasks. This means that we set up an open call to anyone on the Mechanical Turk site who was interested in answering questions about desire and the human body. We developed the rating interface below, which prompted users to rank how exciting several points of the body were to the touch. Overall, we asked questions for 707 different points on male and female bodies. Results After a few days, a total of 281 people entered 33,871 ratings of different points of the body. Want to take the survey?
the color of data — Visual Hint The Art Of Reproduction by fernanda and martin The web can seem like the perfect museum, holding all the world’s art. Type “Danae Klimt” into your favorite search engine, and you conjure up a high-resolution image of Gustav Klimt’s Danaë: tan limbs, a shower of gold, red hair. Or did you find pink limbs? Curious just how far reproductions stray from each other, we began an investigation. The discontinuities of color, texture and frame tell the story of the inaccuracies in reproduction, forming a tapestry of beautiful half-truths. For some works, we also created compositions comparing the same detail across many copies. Go to our gallery to see all the compositions. That was fast! It seems like just yesterday (or two blog posts ago) that we announced the beginning of Flowing Media. But today we are bidding the company adieu. It’s been a wonderful, though short, ride at Flowing Media. Right now we’re at orientation in Mountain View, becoming, as they say, more “googley.” Stay tuned. The Web Seer
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