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Sep 29
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…data visualization is more than complex software or the prettying up of spreadsheets. It’s not innovation for the sake of innovation. It’s about the most ancient of social rituals: storytelling. It’s about telling the story locked in the data differently, more engagingly, in a way that draws us in, makes our eyes open a little wider and our jaw drop ever so slightly. And as we process it, it can sometimes change our perspective altogether.

– Data Visualization: Stories for the Information Age
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May 25
Map the Fallen - in honor of Memorial Day and the more than 5700 soldiers who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.  MapTheFallen.org (Google Earth v5+ required)

Map the Fallen - in honor of Memorial Day and the more than 5700 soldiers who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.  MapTheFallen.org (Google Earth v5+ required)

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Feb 26

The Crisis of Credit! (Visualized)

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Jan 22
Why Do Freeways Come to a Stop?(reblog rogier)

Why Do Freeways Come to a Stop?
(reblog rogier)

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Jan 12
Pimping the President’s Ride (AKA “Caddy One”): a look inside the tank/car that will serve as Obama’s White House on wheels in the years to come, complete with tear gas weaponry, bottles of the President’s blood, and a direct line to the Pentagon.  MSRP $450,000 (with good credit).

Pimping the President’s Ride (AKA “Caddy One”): a look inside the tank/car that will serve as Obama’s White House on wheels in the years to come, complete with tear gas weaponry, bottles of the President’s blood, and a direct line to the Pentagon.  MSRP $450,000 (with good credit).

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Oct 24

Air Traffic Across the World: this video of worldwide commercial air traffic over a 24-hour period confirms three things: (1) high-speed travelflattened the world long before high-speed internet emerged to accelerate it; (2) the airline industry is the commoditized “dumb pipe” of travel; and (3) it shouldn’t be so hard to find a decent flight! [via FlowingData]

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Aug 18

Outbreak: The Birth of YouTube

I always love those scenes in movies where a tertiary government “expert” stands before a Patton-esque backdrop and projects the spread of a catastrophic threat.  Last week, Andrew Chen examined the growth of YouTube vs. Webkinz using state-level search volume from Google Insights… and I was inspired.  Combine the first 6 months of YouTube with, say, Clint Howard (Donald Sutherland passed) and we have our scene: a nationwide outbreak.

Taking a page from Outbreak (1995), you can just imagine the media conglomerates behind closed doors, tracking the spread of a virus they cannot (or do not care to) understand.  Just for fun, let’s cast Viacom’s Sumner Redstone in the role of “Colonel Sam Daniels” (Dustin Hoffman)… and Clint Howard to co-star as his closest legal advisor:

Major Casey Schuler: I hate this bug.
Colonel Sam Daniels: Oh, come on, Casey. You have to admire its simplicity. It’s one billionth our size and it’s beating us.
Major Casey Schuler: So, what do you want to do, take it to dinner?
Colonel Sam Daniels: No.
Major Casey Schuler: What, then?
Colonel Sam Daniels: Kill it. Sue it for one billion dollars!

(While I await my WGA card, please enjoy the trailer for Outbreak… on YouTube)

Update: TechCruch notes that “insights only come out from actually playing with data”, as each query is represented separately (“techcrunch” vs. “techcrunch.com”).

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Aug 6
History of the Internet Meme: a timeline of the many short-lived internet memes that have brought us laughs, horror, and an onslaught of so-called “viral marketing” hoping to catch such lightning in a bottle.  The community-powered chronicle features everything from Dancing Baby to Garfield Minus Garfield, and should suffice to re-waste a few hours of the day.  [via Marktd]

History of the Internet Meme: a timeline of the many short-lived internet memes that have brought us laughs, horror, and an onslaught of so-called “viral marketing” hoping to catch such lightning in a bottle.  The community-powered chronicle features everything from Dancing Baby to Garfield Minus Garfield, and should suffice to re-waste a few hours of the day.  [via Marktd]

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Aug 4
2008 Box Office Visualization [via Infosthetics]

2008 Box Office Visualization [via Infosthetics]

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Jul 18
YouTube = Views = Duh.  The latest research out of TubeMogul reinforces the obvious conclusion that YouTube remains the driving force in online video distribution  More interesting is the comparison across categories: in aggregate, as well as for each property. In this cross-section of the world of online video, YouTube is most certainly the core — but Veoh offers some “liquid hot magma” for Arts & Animation, Yahoo within Science & Technology, and MetaCafe (which is unfairly penalized for measuring one view per IP) holds its own in the bedrock of Video Games.

YouTube = Views = Duh.  The latest research out of TubeMogul reinforces the obvious conclusion that YouTube remains the driving force in online video distribution  More interesting is the comparison across categories: in aggregate, as well as for each property.

In this cross-section of the world of online video, YouTube is most certainly the core — but Veoh offers some “liquid hot magma” for Arts & Animation, Yahoo within Science & Technology, and MetaCafe (which is unfairly penalized for measuring one view per IP) holds its own in the bedrock of Video Games.

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Jun 24
Web 2.0 World: one thousand “Web 2.0” logos form this mosaic of the truly worldwide web [via]

Web 2.0 World: one thousand “Web 2.0” logos form this mosaic of the truly worldwide web [via]

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Jun 18
“People and Laws” - The Declaration of Independence as a Wordle cloud.

“People and Laws” - The Declaration of Independence as a Wordle cloud.

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Jun 13
Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon charts the “most influential or amusing blogs about politics, gossip, Hollywood, media, and miscellany” along two continuums: tone and content (The white space represents all of the important blogs they forgot to mention).

Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon charts the “most influential or amusing blogs about politics, gossip, Hollywood, media, and miscellany” along two continuums: tone and content (The white space represents all of the important blogs they forgot to mention).

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May 28

Movie Scenes as Typography

FilmSchoolRejects has assembled an collection of impressive typography experiments which offer a unique take on the popular movie scenes and phrases that so quickly become a part of our cultural vocabulary (even though most people don’t realize that they are constantly quoting Hollywood). It’s interesting that all of these scenes still hold up without the benefit of the actors’ on-screen presence… a testament to fine performances and tremendous writing.

You can check out There Will Be Blood and Wedding Crashers above, but it’s well worth experiencing the full set here… especially the always-NSFW Full Metal Jacket.

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May 21

Mapping the Bookshelves of Amazon

What do you get when you cross 735,323 books scraped from the Amazon database with the 10,316,775 connections between them? Pretty pictures, of course… and an interesting data visualization. The speckled photo below is actually just one piece of this massive mosaic of book covers, each placed and tinted by category.

[via Information Aesthetics]

Update: FlowingData provides another 12 Cool Visualizations to Explore Books

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