Yahoo! Placemaker
Yahoo released a new API called Placemaker on the Where 2.0 conference. Placemaker aims to help making applications and services location aware. Read more
Google Launches Maps Data API
At the Where 2.0 conference Google announced the new Maps Data API.The official descriptions goes:
The Google Maps Data API allows client applications to view, store and update map data in the form of Google Data API feeds using a data model of features (placemarks, lines and shapes) and maps (collections of features).
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Just Landed – A Twitter Visualization in Processing
Just Landed extracts travel information from Tweets and maps the journeys on a map. The map itself remeains two dimensional but the "flights" are visualized in as three dimensional curves. A chronological order of the Tweets makes it possible to review a certain time period. Read more
Heatmap of “Swine Flu” Tweets
Since the first cases the swine flu has had immediate attention by the press. I think the media has a sever responsibility because the impact of the coverage seems to be huge on the public life. For my party I wanted to examine the conversation abound the topic and where these conversations take place. Read more
Tracking swine flu (for yourself)
The NY Times Interactive team has put together an interactive visualization displaying the spread of the swine flu virus. The applet is a static map with interactive markers showing the amount of confirmed cases. The Guardian has created a similar application but their version shows the spread in relation to the past dates which helps to understand correlations and directions of the spreading. Read more
Heatmap of Tweets from the earthquake in L’Aquila
I've created a heatmap visualization of 1500 Tweets with the keyword "earthquake" around the time of the terrible earthquake that happened in L'Aquila, Italy. Read more
Real Estate Data on Steroids
Powered by the big announcement from the Open blog, we're looking at visualizations using Real Estate data. The New York Times today released the Real Estate API providing percentiles and counts for real estate listings and sales in New York City. Read more
Open data mapped on StumbleSafely
Stumble Safely is a web based application that help DC based bar goers to return back home safely. The website's main feature is a map mashing up geo located crime data with local bars, pubs and lounges. Read more
Web Trend Map 4
iA Architects is finishing up the 4th issue of the Web Trend Map. The thoughts behind the map are best described by the creators: The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. It maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people onto the Tokya Metro map. Read more
Visualizing the internet with Akamai
The real-time monitoring example applications over at Akamai are interactive Flash interfaces visualizing different aspects of the internet. The range goes from web-monitoring to performance comparison and net usage indices. Read more
The world’s eyes
Los ojos del mundo (the world's eyes) illustrates the photos people visiting Spain leave behind them as evidences of contemporary tourism in the country. Read more
Mapping CO2 data in GoogleEarth
Simon Ilyushchenko from the Google Lat Long team posted an article on how he created a visualization by mapping CO2 emissions and a detailed explanation about the composite. Read more
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