Data Visualization: Trimet Weekday - 4am till Midnight

Very cool video visualization of Portland’s public transit system activity. Kind of looks like a blob of leeches are loose in the city!

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All Streets - Ben Fry

A conceptually related follow up to Fry’s US zipcode map: “26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas…”

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Moonwalk Map

Very cool map detailing Armstrong and Aldrin’s landing on the moon! I like how it combines traces of the lunar geography with their paths and activities. The soccer field underlay communicates well the scale of the area. Nicely visualized.

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gCensus: Free online GIS

gCensus is an effort to make geographic data freely and easily accessible to the public, without the need for expensive GIS software packages. With Google Earth, you can use this site to visualize a wide variety of data best displayed on a map.

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Future Feeder » Perceptive Pixel

Latest video of NYU Prof. Jeff Han’s multi-touch screen technology. Amazing stuff.

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cookin’/relaxin’: Text the radio, watch it grow

Tristan Ferne on the realtime SMS “cloud” visualization he created for BBC Radio 1. “DJs and producers have a “text console” web application which they can use to view the incoming messages and either respond to them on air or select messages to publish

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Touch - The dashed line in use

“Even though the dashed line has emerged from a designer’s shorthand and from the limitations of monotone printing techniques, it has a clear and simple visual magic, the ability to express something three- or four-dimensional in two dimensions.”

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YouTube - Ruben’s Tube

Sound visualization using fire. Via smadden.

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Personal Kyoto: Achieve Your Own Personal Kyoto Protocol!

“Track your residential or commercial electric usage automatically and achieve your own Personal Kyoto.” Particularly interesting bit: “If you are a software developer interested in bringing Personal Kyoto to your town, get in touch!”

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Indexed - Vaguely self-explanatory

“This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others.” Collection of funny graphs, scatter plots and venn diagrams on index cards.

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A Year of YouTube Submissions

Ghostly information visualization showing the increasing number of videos posted on YouTube.com over the last year.

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Baseball meets Interaction Design

From AIGA’s IxD education publication “Loop”. Interesting to compare flows generated by each of the teams. It would be worthwhile to spend some time studying the visual and structural traits of the simpler, clearer solutions.

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Regular Expression Visualizer

Very cool. With a pattern in place start typing in the “input” box and watch the matching happen.

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Near real-time census of marine life

“Tiny microprocessors and sophisticated remote sensing systems now make it possible for scientists to explore the vast reaches of the open ocean from the perspective of the top-level predatory animals…”

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Escher for Real

Totally cool models of Escher illusions.

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Generative Art by Mario Klingemann

“Quasimondo” on the Processing forum.

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Le Voyage - Aaron Koblin

Another piece by Koblin. Uses LiveJournal as a well of source material (text, images). I like the onscreen and physical presentation.

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Flight Patterns - Aaron Koblin

Breathtakingly beautiful visualizations of air traffic over the United States. FAA flight data, visualized with Proce55ing, composited with After Effects or MAYA.

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Real-time San Francisco Bay wind pattern streaklines

USGS site with applet that displays (slightly delayed) animated wind flow patterns over the SF bay. Just indicates direction, not speed. (They do have a color-coded speed map in knots)

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Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative - Edward R. Tufte

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Envisioning information - Edward R. Tufte

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The visual display of quantitative information - Edward R. Tufte

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My Social Fabric - Thesis project by Steven Blyth. Represents your social relationships as avatars with varying body postures (based on how well you’ve tended to those relationships.)

Your phone’s screen shows a crowd of human figures, each an avatar of one of your friends, acquaintances or relatives. The frequency of all digital communications between you and each person, which the system monitors, determines that avatar’s posture: an

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George Legrady [Interactive | Algorithmic] Visualization Research Lab

The Visualization Lab provides the focus for the research and practice components. Projects integrate interactive art installation, collaborative narrative development, data mapping and data visualization through semantic categorization and self-organizin

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Seattle PI article on “Making the invisible visible” installation at the Seattle public library’s main branch.

Put on by UCSB prof George Legrady.

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