Infographic of the Day: The Blistering Rise of iPad and Tablet Computing | Co.Design If you're not much of a tech nerd, you'd be forgiven for thinking the iPad and the ensuing tablet boom are merely some kind of hype machine. You'd also be wrong, if industry analysts are right. Long story short, 2010 was just the barest tip of the tablet onslaught. In two years time, they'll be more numerous than mosquitos in July, as this infographic lays out. The data below, produced by Morgan Stanley and Forrester, among others, and then laid out by Focus, presents hockey-stick growth scenarios for iPad and its ilk. What's probably most surprising is how mainstream their appeal is -- a whopping 14% of online shoppers say they plan to purchase an iPad in the next five months; total sales are expected to rise 1000% by 2014. [Click for full-sized version] Keep in mind, a few early reviewers panned the iPad, saying they couldn't understand what you'd use it for. But what might be the most insightful points on the infographic are at the end. [Focus via WeLoveDataVis]
Live map of London Underground trains Loading... Powered by Leaflet — Map tiles © Thunderforest, data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Live London Underground map By Matthew Somerville. Data collected: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:33:02 +0100 <div style="border: solid 2px #cc0000; padding: 5px; width: 70%; margin: 1em auto;"> I'm afraid that this page requires JavaScript to draw the maps and plot move the trains, which isn't possible with just HTML. More information Hide What is this? This map shows all trains (yellow dots) on the London Underground network in approximately real time. I have similar things for the London buses and National Rail, and an awesome bookmarkable train times journey planner. — Matthew How does it work? Live departure data is fetched from the TfL API, and then it does a bit of maths and magic. Who did this? Matthew Somerville (with helpful hinderances from Frances Berriman and James Aylett). Originally built at Science Hackday, June 2010.
PearlTrees: Visually Organize and Share Web Bookmarks - informat Pearltrees [pearltrees.com] is a new online visualization tool that allows users to organize their favorite content found on the Web as a network graph, which then reveals the connections between the interests of people. Or, in other words, Pearltrees is a somehow alternative visual version of the social bookmarking concepts that drive delicio.us, or a "collaborative network" that let users create, organize and share the world of their interests. However, in contrast to a tag-based system, Pearltrees connects people by the real content that is shared. Users can save their favorite websites, organize what they find interesting, and explore what others have saved and are saying about specific web destinations. You can watch a documentary video below.
HAPPINESS IS... One of the many reasons why I love Washington... tulips for days. Every April, flower farms open up their fields for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The weather couldn't have been better, so we hopped into the MINI and drove a couple hours north to see them in person. It was an endless sea of color. Like something out of a dream. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Infographic of the Day: Who Won the World Series for the Giants? | Co.Design If you're a San Francisco Giants fan, you're probably still savoring the sweet, sweet season that led to the team's improbable World Series win. Thanks to the power of infographics, you can relive every game of it. Chartball, which makes lovely infographic charts about sports, is selling a 24'x36' print that summarizes every game of the Giants 2010 season. [Click for larger image] Here, for example, is a chart showing which batters contributed the most offense over the course of the season. Same goes for another chart showing the performance of the team's bullpen: And last but not least, there are three matrices that basically produce a ranked outlook of players in the field, in the batting box, and on the mound: You can buy the print here, for $43.
Data visualization books: How to start your personal library The Excel Charts Blog There are many approaches to data visualization. Take well-know authors like Tufte, Cleveland, Ware, Few, Bertin or McCandless. There is some overlap, but they all approach data visualization from a different angle. I suppose the books you buy are consistent with that view. So, after reading Enrico’s last post, The Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit I decided to follow Andy Kirk’s suggestion (“as many people as possibly should share what helped them”) and list my entire data visualization library. Italicized titles are books I have access to, but I should buy them anyway. Theory Other Authors: Presentations Perception Design Numbers & Decision Making Excel & Dashboards
Projects and Experiments by FlowingData | FlowingData Co.Design - Wed, Nov 10 2010 The e-diplomacy Hub, A real-time window onto digital diplomacy in action Google Use this free Java application to explore the connections between related websites. Try it now! Enter keywords or a URL, and click 'Graph it!' Getting Started Make sure you have the latest version of java, at least Java 1.5 Type in your search keywords or a URL, and press "Graph It!" Sample Searches: Lush Metrics “Le datajournalisme permet la production d’une information à haute valeur ajoutée” - Le blog-atelier de l'ASJ Tours Le journalisme de données, également appelé datajournalisme, est un procédé journalistique qui consiste à analyser des bases de données, afin d’en retirer du contenu informationnel. Celui-ci est ensuite retranscrit sur Internet sous forme d’interfaces visuelles interactives. Le journaliste Alain Joannès, auteur de livres et de blogs*, s'intéresse au Web depuis 1993. Pour lui, le datajournalisme est une pratique émergente, qui offre des perspectives intéressantes pour le journalisme d’investigation. Le data-journalisme est-il un phénomène nouveau ? C’est une forme de journalisme présente de façon diffuse dans les rédactions depuis très longtemps. En quoi est-ce du journalisme d’investigation ? Le journalisme de données s’ajoute aux autres formes de journalisme. Pourquoi le Web offre de nouvelles perspectives en matière de journalisme de données ? C’est d’abord quelque chose de fabuleux au niveau de la recherche d’informations. Le data-journalisme n’est-il pas juste un phénomène de mode ?
Visualisation Insights: #1 The visualisation designer This post is the first in a series I am commencing called Visualisation Insights. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together these interviews to create a greater understanding and appreciation of the challenges, approaches and solutions that exist in the worlds of this collection of people – the visualisation field’s ‘cast and crew’. The World Cup is now but a distant memory to most of us, unless you happen to come from Spain of course, but one of the key aspects of the tournament from point of view was the array of innovative infographics and visualisation devices used by media organisations and websites to enhance their coverage (see my collections part 1, part 2 and part 3). [click image for large view] How did you get involved in the Umbro project?