Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” *notcot in design , 23:52 NOTCOT Note: Here is another post continuing on Justine’s (aka RUGenius’) adventures in Sheffield, it took a bit of researching, but she’s come back to me with some MIND BLOWING infographics from Stephanie Posavec, you definitely need to click on the images after the jump to see them in full resolution where you can see what every curve and color represents. I kid you not, you will not see Kerouac’s On The Road the same again… During my recent trip up to Sheffield, I was fortunate enough to be staying next door to the Millennium Galleries, who hosted a portion of the citywide Art Sheffield event. Among the exhibits, was one called “On the Map” (more info here as well), which uses craft and design to understand the symbolic and representative nature of maps. However, the works that caught my eyes was that of Stefanie Posavec. High-res images below not to be missed! Here are pics in book context: Tags: art - books - travel
List of genealogy databases This is a list of genealogy databases and online resources that are not specifically restricted to a particular place, family set, or time period in their content. Comparison of notable databases for uploading family trees[edit] Some of these also have social networking features. References[edit] datajournalismelab Matière Primaire Free Public Records | Search the Original Directory Worldwide Learning How To Visualize Been getting a ton of requests for ‘how to’s and guides for creating decent visualizations and information designs. Made me think: maybe I could do some workshops in this area. I like developing ideas and working with people. So if you think you’d like to attend a workshop on visualization or organize one for your organisation, please fill in this quick form (30 seconds). In the meantime, you might be interested in a section I’ve been building in a far-flung corner of the site. The most recent one explores the stages we went through creating an infographic for Wired magazine about planets in other solar systems – or “exoplanets”. (Microscopic, dark and unimaginably far away, these tiny celestial objects should be impossible to spot. Here’s how we created it. Timelines: TimeTravel in TV and Film Yup, we went through 36 drafts of this. Versioning: Because Every Design Is Good For Something How do you flag and label 142 countries on a single map without choking the result?
David McCandless TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets - W3C Wiki SWEO Community Project: Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web This page collects RDF data sets that are part of the emerging Web of Linked Data. Please note: This page is outdated For keeping the LOD cloud diagram up to date, the Linking Open Data community effort has started to collect meta-information about Linked datasets on CKAN, a registry of open data and content packages provided by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The meta-information from CKAN (and not from this page) is used to draw the LOD cloud diagram and to maintain statistics about the size of the Web of Linked Data. The list of Linked Dataset for which we have already collected meta-information on CKAN is found here: CKAN LOD Group Basic statistics about these datasets are provided at: A guide on how to describe your dataset on CKAN is found here: LOD CKAN Guidlines Thus, if you are publishing a Linked Dataset, please add meta-information about your dataset to CKAN. Historic Version of this Page How big is this Web of Linked Data?
Statistics Help for Journalists Numbers can't "talk," but they can tell you as much as your human sources can. But as with human sources, you have to ask! So what should you ask a number? Well, mathematicians have developed an entire field — statistics — dedicated to getting answers out of numbers. In 1996, I first published Statistics Every Writer Should Know, an online tutorial for math-phobic journalists. Running a business demands at least a basic knowledge of math and math concepts, so I'm including this tutorial as an appendix my 2012 book, How to Make Money Publishing Community News Online. Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know... So, You're a Beginner? Mean Let's get started... Median How to find out how the "average Joe" is doing Mode So, like, who's popular? Percent Ch-ch-ch-changes... The Next Step: Not Getting Duped Per capita and Rates When an increase is really a decrease and other ways people can use numbers to trick you Frequently Asked Questions
Most influential tweets 2012-05 #dataviz . Récap mensuel des tweets les plus influents sur le domaine de la data visualization : En Mai 4 296 tweets mentionnant dataviz ont été publiés sur Twitter (en légère progression par rapport au mois d'Avril +7%). . Les cinq tweets les plus influents du mois d'avril sur le hashtag #dataviz ont été publiés par les comptes Twitter : @GOOD, @avinash, @fastcompany, @visually et @WSJGraphics (récupérés avec topsy analytics) @Good - Association of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits powering what works.Tweet: What can America learn from the world’s most successful #education systems? @avinash : Author, Web Analytics 2.0 & Web AnalyticsTweet: I'm going overboard but this is the single greatest representation of data ever! @fastcompany - Official Twitter feed for the Fast Company business media brandTweet: Explore The Galaxy Using The Actual ‘Minority Report’ Interface Amazing #dataviz via @FastCoDesign .
Open data An introductory overview of Linked Open Data in the context of cultural institutions. Clear labeling of the licensing terms is a key component of Open data, and icons like the one pictured here are being used for that purpose. Overview[edit] The concept of open data is not new; but a formalized definition is relatively new—the primary such formalization being that in the Open Definition which can be summarized in the statement that "A piece of data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike. Open data is often focused on non-textual material[citation needed] such as maps, genomes, connectomes, chemical compounds, mathematical and scientific formulae, medical data and practice, bioscience and biodiversity. A typical depiction of the need for open data: Creators of data often do not consider the need to state the conditions of ownership, licensing and re-use. I want my data back. Closed data[edit]