Worldwide Inauguration via Twitter
http://projects.flowingdata.com/inauguration/

amazing viz

"At noon EST, Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America. Watch as the (Twitter) world watched. Below are the tweets worldwide that included inauguration with a "positive attitude." " - Flowing Data

This looks like a fun language to play with.

google tools

Last night, I moderated our Bay Area R Users Group kick-off event with a panel discussion entitled “The R and Science of Predictive Analytics”, co-located with the Predictive Analytics World conference here in SF. The panel comprised of four recognized R users from industry: * Bo Cowgill, Google * Itamar Rosenn, Facebook * David Smith, Revolution Computing * Jim Porzak, The Generations Network (and Co-Chair of our R Users Group)

looks like a promising read

Africa is larger than china, argentina, us, india and western europe together.

Data Visualization

Today's consumer seems to have an insatiable appetite for information, but until recently making sense of all of that raw data was too daunting for most. Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.

A nice round up of teh ideas and some great examples

Advertising Age - DigitalNext

via the cairo graphics lib, see cairographics.org

Cool, visual, way of showing sorting algoriothmsw

Static images of sorting algorithms, pretty neat!

"This whole thing started partly as an excuse to get familiar with the Cairo graphics library. It produces beautiful, clean images, and appears to be both portable and well designed. It also comes with a set of Python bindings that are maintained as part of the project itself - a big plus in my books. Firefox 3 will use Cairo as its standard rendering back end, which will instantly make it one of the most widely used vector graphics libraries out there. "

I dislike animated sorting algorithm visualisations - there's too much of an air of hocus-pocus about them. Something impressive and complicated happens on screen, but more often than not the audience is left mystified. I think their creators must also know that they have precious little explanatory value, because the better ones are sexed up with play-by-play doodles, added, one feels, as an apologetic afterthought by some particularly dorky sportscaster. Nevertheless I've been unable to find a single attempt to visualise a sorting algorithm statically (if you know of any, please drop me a line). So, presented below are the results of a pleasant evening with some nice Scotch and the third volume of Knuth. First, here's a taster - a static visualisation of heapsort: Heapsort I think these simple static visualisations are much clearer than most animated attempts - and they have the added benefit of also being, to my not entirely unbiased eye, rather beautiful.

I think these simple static visualisations are much clearer than most animated attempts - and they have the added benefit of also being, to my not entirely unbiased eye, rather beautiful.

interesting

mix: ways to utilize visualizations

Intuitive visual explanation of Bayes' theorem using Venn diagrams

I recently came up with what I think is an intuitive way to explain Bayes’ Theorem. I searched in google for a while and could not find any article that explains it in this particular way. Of course there’s the wikipedia page, that long article by Yudkowsky, and a bunch of other explanations and tutorials. But none of them have any pictures. So without further ado, and with all the chutzpah I can gather, here goes my explanation.

nota

Create online UML diagrams in seconds from inside your blog posts, articles and documents.

Need this for class.

FANTÁSTICO

Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental. We're deliberately providing a wide array of possibilities since this is an experimental site...

Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental. We're deliberately providing a wide array of possibilities since this is an experimental site—and expect to see more soon!

cool collection of visualizations

Visualization is the antithesis of Powerpoint

design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. You've seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type of varying weigh

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set.

우아한 차트를 만들어주는 프레임웍이란다

java visualizer, cool information graphics

really nice website that makes numbers and stats clear to see

http://collison.ie/blog/2009/04/hacking-for-fun-and-profit-with-mathematica-and-the-google-analytics-api Hackingforfunandprofit

followerの発言時期を解析

In the Last Day

lets you see what a twitterer's friends are doing -- by most recent activity

maps and twitter integration

Use of twitter and maps for Vodafone

Nice visualization of population and percentage of those who are online

If you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept busy for 31,000 years. Without any sleep.

Very cool stuff...

Data Visualization is a method of presenting information in a graphical form. Good data visualization should appear as if it is a work of art. This intrigues the viewer and draws them in so that they can further investigate the data and info that the graphic represents. In this post there are 15 stunning examples of Data Visualization that are true works of art.

australian web projects visualized

getting me excited about data

Graphs of the impact of Obama on people/demographics in less than 1 year since inauguration.

facilitate understanding and aid cognition

Le but de la visualisation est de donner un aperçu, pas des images, disait déjà Ben Shneiderman en 1999. Manuel Lima propose plusieurs critères à son manifeste qui découlent de ce constat : La forme suit la fonction, l'intéractivité comme clef, la puissance de la naration...

Infoviz is becoming more and more popular and, just as anything growing popular, also controversial. Here's a list with some good points on good information visualization.

"An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily"

Like a human social network, the news tends to cluster around popular topics. One clump of dots might relate to a flavor-of-the-week tabloid story (the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping) while another might center on Afghanistan, Iraq, and the military. Most stories are more closely related that you think. The Dugard kidnapping, for example, connects to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who connects to the White House, which connects to Afghanistan. To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that topic and which other topics it connects to in the network. You can use the magnifying glass icons to zoom in and out. You can also drag the dots around if they overlap. A more detailed description of how News Dots works is available below the graphic.

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wykres zrobiony z piosenki beatelsów

Hey Jude Flowchart

Advice on how to make really useful infographics.

Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative. Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world.

Schulze describes some of the influences behind the projection prints of NYC. I loved these maps at first sight, but missed this in-depth piece shedding light on some of the thinking behind them.

A great example of the erudition that Schulze and Webb display. "I’ve been observing the look and mechanisms in maps since I began working in graphic design. For individuals, and all kinds of companies, cities are an increasing pre-occupation. Geography is the new frontier. Wherever I look in the tech industry I see material from architects and references and metaphors from the urban realm. Here & There draws from that, and also exploits and expands upon the higher levels of visual literacy born of television, games, comics and print."

ajax javascript charts visualisation web ; Not related to AJAX, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ; Ajax.org Platform is a pure javascript application framework for creating real-time collaborative applications that run in the browser. Ajax.org Platform radically changes the way you write applications:Live markup Markup and JSON api Collaborative backbone 100% open source software

Comparison between low cost and regular airline infographic

Excellent visualisation of UK government spending volume

Very interesting online data visualization example. Found the NYT unemployment chart by demographic very interesting and easy to use.

| FlowingData" Data has been declared sexy, and the rise of the data scientist is here. http://j.mp/6xbP4C

Google Map mashup - pulls tweets containing postcode and #uksnow and places them on the map

realtime twitter to weathermap app - works using postcodes and ratings out of 10 - SIMPLE!

Which are the biggest sites on the internet? Explore this interactive graphic to find out.

parallel sets diagram

"This post, then, is a first sketch of what a lesson plan for teaching Processing and data visualization might look like. I’m going to start from scratch, work through some examples, and (hopefully) make some interesting stuff. One of the nice things, I think, about this process, is that we’re going to start with fresh, new data – I’m not sure what kind of things we’re going to find once we start to get our hands dirty. This is what is really exciting about data visualization

visualisiert Text in Baumdiagramm

obama word tree

interactive map to explore the speech

Wow, very cool indeed! Enhance your photos with osm data. Haven't found if you can upload your own pictures though...

Pretty cool

internet searches lead researchers to predict flu outbreaks early

We've created experimental estimates of flu activity in Mexico using aggregated search data. Unlike Google Flu Trends for the U.S., this data has not been validated against confirmed cases of flu.

RT @rzeiger: Google launches Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico http://tinyurl.com/cvdfnt #swineflu [from http://twitter.com/healthblawg/statuses/1653930907]

Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico by Google: http://tr.im/k6oa [from http://twitter.com/AdNerds/statuses/1659090902]

Flu trends analisys based on searches in Google | Tendencias de influeza basadas en búsquedas en Google

Seems that information overflow has turned into something positive with Google Flu Trends

Very Useful Guide to the myriads of metadata standards

intro on data visualization

Introduction to, and history of, datavisualization

Data visualization is a pretty literal term that means, quite simply, the visual representation of quantitative data. In this course we’ll learn common techniques for visualizing data, as well as some strategies for managing information digitally. But first, a brief history.

A brief history of visualization http://bit.ly/a2YB4q #datavisualization #dataviz

Data Visualization

Although visualization hasn’t been widely recognized as a discipline in and of itself until fairly recently, today’s most popular forms date back nearly two centuries. Geographical exploration, mathematics, and popularized history spurred the creation of early maps, graphs, and timelines as far back as the 1600s; but William Playfair is widely credited as the inventor of the modern chart, having created the first widely distributed line and bar charts in his Commercial and Political Atlas of 1786, and what is generally considered to be the first pie chart in his Statistical Breviary, published in 1801.