15 Mar 2011
Notes
Notetaking
I was thrilled, when I heard that Ogilvy Notes has selected our panel, Social Media Data Visualization: Mapping the World's Conversation, to be recorded using visual notes. Here's a visual insight into the content of our session.
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08 Mar 2011
Showcases
Map, Network
The Seattle Band Map is a project that showcases the Pacific Northwest's vibrant music scene by documenting the thousands of bands who have performed and recorded throughout the decades.
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28 Feb 2011
Showcases
Network, Timeline, Twitter
Two visualizations strive to shed light upon the Egyptian uprising that began on 25 January 2011 and demanded the overthrow of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. While they take a different view, both pair the happenings with the reactions of people on the web.
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25 Feb 2011
Events
Conference, Festival
I am very excited — no, I am thrilled to be speaking at this year's SXSW Interactive! Invited by the good folks at JESS3, I will join Adam Bly of Visualizing.org, Eric Friedman of Foursquare and our moderator Robin Richards on the panel entitled Social Media Data Visualization: Mapping the World's Conversations.
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24 Feb 2011
Showcases
Facebook, Network, Twitter
Fizz is a social network visualization that provides a playful view on your own social graph and what's currently happening. It's one of the first two projects of the new visualization super group called Bloom.
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21 Feb 2011
Inside, Opinions
Infographics, Process
This is a guest post by Mike Tully, designer and student at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In this Datavisualization.ch Inside article he describes the creation process behind his first information visualization project called "The Weather of Well Being".
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17 Feb 2011
Tools
JavaScript, Tutorial
Protovis is an open-source visualization library by the Stanford Visualization Group and has become one of the preferred tools in our arsenal. If you want to get started with the popular toolkit too, Jerome Cukier has a comprehensive tutorial about how to work with data in Protovis.
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11 Feb 2011
Showcases
Geo, Mapping
Daniel Huffman gives us an alternative view on how to look at rivers: Using the analogy of urban transit maps, he achieves a high level of abstraction an thus gives a clear overview over relationships and hierarchies.
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09 Feb 2011
Events
Conference, Government
As part of their project City Tracking, Stamen is hosting an invitation-only conference on Data Visualization and Cities on February 9-11, 2011, in their offices in San Francisco.
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07 Feb 2011
Showcases
Art, Print
Random Number Multiples debuts with two silk screened data visualizations by Jer Thorp and two abstract compositions by Marius Watz.
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01 Feb 2011
Showcases
Infographic, Typography
Shelby White shows us where today's 50 most popular typefaces originate.
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