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ebb & flow of movies
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on February 27, 2008
a compelling interactive data visualization of the box office receipts between 1986 & 2007. each shape corresponds to a single film. the height shows the weekly box office revenue, the width its longevity. color further highlights the success of a movie. the specific visualization method is known as a ThemeRiver, originally published in 1999 here (PDF). see also music listening history graph">,...
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information design patterns cookbook
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
a sophisticated online collection of about 48 design patterns that describe distinct methods for the display of interactive information graphics, their active behavior as well as the forms of user interaction with them. as part of the written thesis in Interface Design from Christian Behrens, a freelance interface designer in Berlin, the website aims to inform graphic designers who need to deal...
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personal profile network graphs
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
a sophisticated visual aggregator that tracks the activities of about 32,000 noteworthy people, both living & dead. the dataset consists of a "Who's Who" including the curriculum vitae of each noted person (i.e. information such as date of birth, a biography, & other essential facts.)the resulting network graphs document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious, as...
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data visualization igoogle gadgets
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on February 05, 2008
after the recent acquisition of Trendalyzer& the development of a dedicated chart API, Google now has implemented the "Official Trendalyzer Gadget" for their iGoogle portal.according to the instructions, the gadget is actually a Flash-based multi-dimensional chart. the first column is item name, the second is time, the third is x-coordinates, the forth is y-coordinates, & the fifth is ball...
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silobreaker news portal
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on February 11, 2008
... topics, places & keywords it understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, & puts them in context for the user. the graphical search results enables users to quickly & easily understand connections, trends & topics or navigate deeper into the most relevant stories for them."be sure to check out some of the interactive visualizations include network graphs of topics like elec...
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average American consumer spending
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
an interactive infographic treemap representing how much the average American citizen spends on 84,000 products in about 200 categories, including fast food, car insurance, rent, electricity, garbage collection & so on. larger shapes make up a larger part of spending. individual shapes can be selected & the treemap can be zoomed in & out.the combination of the organic looking treemap shapes &...
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Google trigram frequency visualization
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
a set of relational visualizations represent the relative frequencies of trigrams as they appear on the web, based on a massive (100GB) n-gram dataset from Google's corpus archive. n-grams are pieces of sentences. a trigram (n=3), for example, might be "I like food" or "frog is tasty." the first visualization compares the 120 trigrams of the terms 'He' with 'She', while the...
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RIP: Yahoo! Design closed down
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
an anonymous source just informed me the entire Yahoo! Design Innovation team (once coined yHaus) has been laid off, part of a closing-down of all innovation teams at Yahoo. in addition, their work has been completely removed from their original website. infosthetics has posted their work here& here, & luckily had stored some copies of their works locally. infosthetics feels bad for the people...
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annual report infographic movie
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
a charming personal annual report video from Cristina Braga, one of the Digital Culture students at The University of Porto, Fine Arts School. I sincerely hope Michael Wesch sees this. see also the information r/evolution movie & Feltron's personal annual reports.[thnkx João Cruz]
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new google visualization API
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on March 20, 2008
a new Google Visualization API, based on the powerful visualization techniques from GapMinder. the API is "designed to make it easier for a wide audience to make use of advanced visualization technology, & do so in a way that makes it quick and easy to integrate with new visualizations."next to the classical methods, the amount of new visualization techniques is quite impressive & include motion...
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