There has certainly been a recent surge in twitter-related data visualization. People love to aggregate all the online chatter into visualizations that are easy to digest. This a good way to identify trending topics and popular thought. Tweetlection, built by Sense Internet, is a interesting new online tool that harvests and analyzes thousands of tweets [...]
Thanks to Information Aesthetics, I stumbled upon the recent FIFA Earth visualization, showcasing more than 2 million daily soccer video games. This visualization easily demonstrates how big soccer is. I am impressed with how smooth the interface moves with such a large dataset. Here’s what Andrew Vande Moere has to day: Fifa Earth [easports.com] visualizes [...]
The contemporary art museum, Fondation Cartier is currently exhibiting Grafitti Taxonomy: Paris 2009. The project contains a repository of about 2,400 graffiti tags found in Paris France. Each tag can be explored to discover calligraphic-like similarities between individual text characters. The 10 most commonly used letters were identified for further study (i.e. A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U). [...]
I just saw this behind-the-scenes footage today, but it has been up for about 3 months. What you’re seeing is two typographers, Pierre & Damien, and a pro race pilot, Stef van Campenhoudt, collaborating to design a font with a car. The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary [...]
Virtual gravity is an interface between digital and analog world. Virtual data can be transported from a loading screen to an analog scale. Search terms can be weighed physically and compared. Digital data get an actual physical existence and become a sensually tangible experience.
This animated infographic movie highlights the increasing tendency of food importation, and how this phenomenon influences the economy, the environment and our neighborhoods. The message is mainly meant for Canadians, but certainly applies universally. read more project details
Aaron Koblin is a data visualization artist most widely known for such projects as Radiohead’s House of Cards, New York Talk Exchange, The Sheep Market, and Flight Patterns. The video interview above gives insight to Aaron’s experience as a data visualization designer and his perspective of the creative landscape as disciplines continue to merge. watch [...]
The graphics above display the adoption of Flash player versions 6 through 10, as well as it’s feature adoption over time. Flash 10, along with rich-media competitor Silverlight V.2, were released in October of 2008. Flash 10 already has an adoption at roughly 75% of all internet users, while Microsoft’s Silverlight is still under 20% [...]
Flickr Clock [flickr.com] created by Stamen is a visual browser for the videos that people have recently started uploading to the site. The videos are arranged chronologically, and drawn from videos that people have posted to the flickrclock group on flickr. The bottom of the interface allows users to scroll back and forth in time, [...]
Lee Brimelow, from Adobe, has been promoting Adobe’s Creative Suite-4 by arranging scavenger hunts all over the world called “dead drops”. The idea behind the dead-drop is that Lee plants a series of clues to lead people to where he has planted a copy of the CS4 Master Collection (valued at $2,499). The latest dead-drop [...]
General Electric’s “Ecomagination” campaign just released a new site – Plug Into the Smart Grid. This interactive experience is a seamless mix of 3D graphics, animations, data visualizations and educational content. To add to the already rich and interesting content, the site also uses some augmented reality techniques to allow users another way to interact [...]