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I was searching for some free data visualization software (to create “mind maps” of my hair-brained schemes), and I found tableau software. One of the demos of their software is a data visualization of graffiti incidents and resolution actions in NYC. This is obviously intended as a tool for the city to track crime and [...]
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Ben Millen, an industrial designer and engineer from Canada, has constructed an interesting diagram of the ecosystem that supports Apple’s iPhone: These are not maps in any conventional sense, but rather diagramatic representations of the interconnected space of technology, capital, instrumental value, exchange value, social and environmental impact that surround the device… via Ben Millen [...]
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Gapminder.org has awesome infographics! For example this moving graph of Oil Consumption vs. Oil Production by country, 1965 to present: Gapminder World
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Amazing artistic interpretations in the vein of Tufte’s style of infographics from Stefanie Posavec called “On the Map” via NOTCOT: Stefanie’s maps capture something above and beyond that of the others. Rather than mapping physical geography, her maps capture regularities and patterns within a literary space.
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The Antikythera Mechanism is a very cool device: …the front of the mechanism shows two concentric circular scales, the inner one showing the Greek zodiac with 360 divisions. The outer, moveable scale is the Egyptian calendar, with 12 30-day months plus five days… The movie Zeitgeist has gotten me thinking about the importance that the [...]
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You never know what Apple is going to do next, so lately people have taken to sniffing out their patents to find out. Turns out they have a big improvement to video conferencing in mind (ok, it has way further impications than cool new iChat video effects)… Great minds all over the world from acedemia [...]
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Time to beat my favorite dead horse up some more. I found a 12-part series on YouTube about 9/11 that asks all the missing questions….and employs a charming velvet-throated woman to voice them. The following thought-provoking challenges are raised to the official 9/11 story: 1) No other steel building has ever collapsed. 2) The WTC [...]
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I found a harrowing account of the uniformed death toll in Iraq for the year 2007 accompanied by a handy data visualization: A Year in Iraq – New York Times (via infosthetics.com). Civilian deaths were too numerous to accurately tally, let alone display in the same manner.
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