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WATCH: David McCandless Talk the Beauty of Data Visualization. “Data is the New Soil”
Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Comics, Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, Marketing on September 17, 2010
Here we present to you a delightful TED talk featuring journalist/programmer Davd McCandless.
When David McCandless began speaking of combing the language of the eye with the language of the mind the obvious connection came to us.
“It’s two languages working together at the same time.”
This is something comics readers have known forever. It’s no accident that data visualization works as a simple, yet complex, way to get useful information across efficiently.
Below the jump, some info-graphics featured in the TED Talk that stirred our curiosity.
Greg Mahlknecht’s World Wire Map, Neal Stephenson’s “Mother Earth Mother Board”
Posted by mistergroonk in Digital Share, Map, World on August 24, 2010
Greg’s Cable Map tracks how information travels the big blue marble of Earth.
When Wired was young, Neal Stephenson wrote an article on the longest wire on Earth.
Mother Earth Mother Board
The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.By Neal Stephenson – Information moves, or we move to it. Moving to it has rarely been popular and is growing unfashionable; nowadays we demand that the information come to us. This can be accomplished in three basic ways: moving physical media around, broadcasting radiation through space, and sending signals through wires. This article is about what will, for a short time anyway, be the biggest and best wire ever made.
Read the entire article here.
via august on the net whitechapel
In San Francisco: Apple Hyperwall Visualizes App Sales, Channels THE MATRIX & Tetris.
Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Marketing on June 8, 2010
Our eyes are set to graphic visualizations.
Mashable explains:
Here at WWDC in San Francisco, Apple has once again erected a video wall demonstrating the reach of the App Store. It contains 30 synchronized 24-inch LED screens that display the top 50,000 apps as they are being downloaded. In just a few minutes, the entire walls gets filled up with with 10,800 downloaded apps from around the world.[…]
“This hyperwall is powered by 30 Mac Pro towers with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and EVGA NVIDIA GTX 285 graphics cards. As apps are downloaded from the App Store, their data is coalesced via an XML feed every five minutes. Apps are sorted and scheduled using Cocoa and Objective-C. The data is then passed to an OpenCL kernle, which drives the animation. Quartz Composer brings all the technologies together and renders the final synchonized output using Quartz Composer Visualizer.”
via mashable
Visualize: Map the BP Oil Disaster to Your Location, Gain Perspective
Posted by mistergroonk in Google-fied, Map, USA, World on June 1, 2010
When descriptions are good enough, what is needed is a little visual perspective. Above you see the output from a Google Maps mashup of the Gulf Oil mayhem relative to our location in the world.
To get your own map, follow the link.
via In Perspective
Google and Adobe to Help Visualize the Tree of Life
Posted by mistergroonk in Digital Share, Google-fied, Science, Technology on February 11, 2009
Scientists are working on a way to re-visualize the evolutionary tree.
There’s just one problem. “We have no way to visualize such a tree at the moment,” he said. If they tried, they would end up with a blurry, inscrutable thicket. “It would be ironic,” Dr. Sanderson said. “We’d be saying, ‘We’ve built it, but we can’t show it to you.’ ”
People clearly underestimate the benefits of a properly laid out visual interface. Looking at you, mid-to-late 90s web page programmers.
The biologists of today are looking to the computer scientists and software engineers from Google and Adobe to create a new way of looking at evolution.
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