Explore 13.7 Billion Years Of Cosmic History In Your Browser With ChronoZoom Sometimes I feel like we of the tech community tend to get bogged down in the little stuff. Hardware specs, OS choices, rumor after endless rumor — it can be nice to just take a step back and stop sweating the small stuff. For a bit of perspective, why not take a few minutes this fine Friday afternoon and explore the nearly 14 billion year history of the cosmos as we know it? There are plenty of ways to do it — randomly clicking through Wikipedia could get the job done — but why not do it with a little pizzazz? With ChronoZoom, we can do just that.
The 3D Trajectories of the Tennis Ball during the Final ATP Matches Corona Perspectives [coronaperspectives.com] developed by advertising agency JWT Spain and web development studio Espada y Santa Cruz provides an interactive and 3D perspective of all the tennis ball trajectories during 3 past ATP tennis matches. The online interface provides different ways of exploring the large amount of tennis game data. An interactive timeline at the bottom of the screen allows the filtering of the trajectories according to the successive sets or different points during the match. The heatmap view denotes the zones on the playing field where the ball landed most often. The particle view highlights the trajectories where the ball had the most impact. Tools to Analyze Delicious Tags, Bookmarks and URLs Delicious is a widely used social bookmarking tools – it stores a wealth of information on people’s web preferences and on how useful they find each web page. There are a few tools that can retrieve that data and represent it to you in more or less comprehensible way. Analyze any site / URL Similicio.us shows which domains your site can be associated with based on the preferences of those who bookmarked it. Delicious URL search will trigger most popular tags the page was associated with as well as recent descriptions members used to bookmark it.
The beauty of data visualization: David McCandless on TED.com Playlist If you liked Amy Webb, you’ll love… For the past week, Amy Webb has been inspiring people to calculate their own algorithm for love. Her laugh-out-loud TED Talk, about reverse engineering her online dating profile and, essentially, data-ing her way into her perfect relationship has gotten a lot of attention, including on The Frisky and Pop Sugar. As Webb’s talk continues to […]
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