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The Sound of the Internet | The Morning News
"If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to JPGs—into music." A lovely piece by Giles Turnbull.
themorningnews  gilesturnbull  sound  internet  audio  visualisation 
8 weeks ago by blech
Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 | BBC News
"A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain's roads between 1999 and 2010."
uk  transport  traffic  cars  fatalities  bbcnews  roads  death  maps  visualisation  via:preoccupations  via:@joemoransblog 
december 2011 by blech
Visualizing Data at the Oxford Internet Institute | Mapping Flickr
<p>"Our program downloaded the count of geotagged photographs in every 0.5 x 0.5 degree latitude-longitude square on the Earth’s surface."</p>
flickr  map  visualisation  via:@datastore  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Boston’s photographic colors | Bostonography
"Here’s what we did: grabbed some 50,000 geotagged photos from Flickr, analyzed the pixel colors of each photo, then mapped a grid of the most frequent color hues." "Every dot on this map shows the most common hue of photos around that point." "A notable outcome (drawback, perhaps) is that dark and unsaturated brownish colors, very common in photographs, show up as orange on the map."
boston  photography  flickr  geotagging  colour  visualisation  via:straup  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
The Emotional Breakdown | Friends of The Web
A write-up of one of my favourite projects at Photo Hack Day in NYC, which takes the Guardian's Day in Pictures and passes it through face.com to get, well, the emotional breakdown. It's also interesting when used on a Big Picture style gallery (like the London riots).
photography  emotion  guardian  analysis  photohackday  hackday  visualisation  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Finding Music With Pictures | storify.com
A nice collection of some of the visualisations that Paul Lamere's SXSWi talk on music and discovery covered.
sxsw  design  music  visualisation  graphics  notes  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
new ways to see and communicate | Bloom
The obligatory link to the new thing by Ben Cerveny, Tom Carden and more. Originally I didn't notice there was more stuff further down the page, so do scroll down.
data  design  infographics  visualisation  html5  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Sunrise and sunset directions | SunCalc
Oh, this is nice- it shows the range of positions of the sun during the day. Handy for plotting when you want to take architectural photographs with particular lighting.
map  sunrise  visualisation  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
When Should I Visit? - Made by Dan W
madebywilliams: Wrote up When Should I Visit?, my hack from @culturehackday at http://iamdanw.com/made/whenshouldivisit/
museum  tourism  infographics  foursquare  data  visualisation  time  from instapaper
february 2011 by blech
Conductor in progress video | Alexander Chen
"Tentatively titled Conductor, it recreates the New York subway system as a musical instrument. It’s currently built in HTML5 + Javascript. SVG was very useful, as I could create the design in Illustrator, then import the coordinates into Javascript." "I decided to use Vignelli’s beautiful 1972 subway map as a starting point for the design."
nyc  newyyorkcity  subway  transport  music  html5  javascript  svg  audio  visualisation  video  map  @shashashasha  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Project Hosting on Google Code | logstalgia
"Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams Apache web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests."
visualisation  web  development  apache  logs  via:@unixdaemon  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Your time machine for the web | Memolane
It's only a video (admittedly a very well produced one) for the moment, but this could be interesting (even if it is a hosted, rather than self-run, service, and perhaps a bit too graphically whizzy). Perhaps it's best thought of as a web-based complement to Momento.
personalarchive  timeline  lifestream  visualisation  via:philgyford  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Transamerica Cone of Invisibility | Burrito Justice
"Mission / La Lengua / Bernal residents hold a deep, dark secret. The glorious Transamerica Pyramid is invisible to us, thanks to the unfortunate placement of the evil and golem-like Bank of America tower."
sanfrancisco  transamericapyramid  google/earth  visualisation  coneofsilence  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Thamestide: A London Companion | booktwo.org
"'Romance has lived too long upon this river' is a single-serving web page that tells you how high the tide is at London Bridge: explicitly close up, but also, roughly, at a glance." More lovely glancables from James Bridle and the assembled at RIG (see also: Dextr).
london  thames  river  tide  visualisation  singleservingsites  rig  via:stml  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
DEXTR - Twitter for your second screen | RIG
"DEXTR is a full screen Twitter client. It shows one tweet at a time, filling the screen. And it accelerates and decelerates depending on how fast your Twitter stream is going." Very nice.
twitter  client  api  visualisation  helvetica  bigtext  secondscreen  tomtaylor  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
More Flickr Mapping | floatingsheep
"Building on our visualisation of 34 million geotagged Flickr images, we have decided to map the data normalised by population and area."
flickr  geography  maps  visualisation  geotagging  via:straup  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Fun exploring EXIF data with Tableau! | Taraji Blue
"Woke up this morning to a tweet from Vanya Tucherov about extracting the EXIF data from photographs and plugging into the information visualisation software Tableau. Worth a try! An hour later, we had the following charts up on the web, currently just using a sample of 450 photos."
exif  visualisation  data  tableau  chart  graph  bibble  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
The truth about London cycle hire | Telegraph Blogs
"Londoners who use Boris Johnson’s cycle hire scheme are 9 to 6 commuters, midday errand runners and fair-weather cyclists who take the tube or bus when it’s a bit cold and wet. How do I know? I’ve seen the data." Although: "I dont think it's a huge stretch of the imagination to say that rain and cold days means less cycling. That's an anecdote and not statistically significant, but this is a blog post based on five day's data, not a scientific paper."
london  cycling  weather  data  visualisation  graph  re:tomtaylor  via:teflon  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
Archipelago | URBAGRAM
"In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city." "we can show how Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York and London." Interesting (and pretty) stuff.
foursquare  data  visualisation  maps  cities  urbanism  nightlife  via:blackbeltjones  alsopostedon:ffffound  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
The transformer: principles of making Isotype charts | Hyphen Press
"The visual work of Otto Neurath and his associates, now commonly known as Isotype, has been much discussed in recent years. This short book explains its essential principles: the work of ‘transforming’, or putting information into visual form."
design  information  visualisation  isotype  ottoneaurath  marieneaurath  book  tobuy  toread  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy | FlowingData
"Indiemapper is kind of like an Adobe Illustrator for maps online. Load your data, pick the features of focus, and then map it."
maps  tools  visualisation  gis  review  via:mattb  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
How we became metadata | University of Westminster
"In this exhibition the artists locate and challenge the logic, the status, and the nature of data, information, and knowledge." "They find new and unique languages to articulate visually and poetically how such systems and networks of data/information/knowledge that constitute and are constituted by metadata might be brought to light, questioned, and, perhaps most pressingly, how they might be disrupted." I'm not sure if this'll be wanky, interesting, or both, but it's probably worth a visit.
london  art  exhibition  information  visualisation  todo/gone  via:tristanf  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Visualizing Your Life on Twitter, IM, Delicious, and Blogger | Grafitter
"Grafitter is a personal informatics tool for collecting and exploring information about your habits and patterns." While it recommends using a funky hashtag format for recording feelings and food, it works without that too; it's fairly interesting, too. It'd be even nicer if it supported more things.
graffiter  visualisation  data  analysis  socialnetwork  personalinformatics  via:deusx  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
London Tube Flows | Oliver G O'Brien
Transport for London's Underground station entrance and exit numbers plotted onto a map. I'm not sure why this is concentrating on differences rather than pure numbers, but it's interesting.
london  map  visualisation  tube  tfl  data  via:diamondgeezer  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on Mac | DaisyDisk
"DaisyDisk scans your disks and presents their content as interactive maps where you can easily spot unusually large files and remove them to get more free space." $20, but claims to be fast.
macosx  software  tool  visualisation  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
diskring | Project Hosting on Google Code
"DiskRing is a Mac OS X utility that displays the disk usage through a handy ring chart effect (like GNOME's Baobab)"
macosx  software  tool  visualisation  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
milkshake whispering | this is aaronland
Aaron continues to be bewlideringly amazing. I have no idea how to summarise this, but you should read it. I read it and I intend to go back tomorrow and read it again.
maps  visualisation  boundaries  photography  justreadit  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
The View from Above | n96.org
Lovely.
twitter  map?  visualisation  via:straup 
march 2010 by blech
Interesting 2009 - a set | Flickr
Jessica Bigarel's slides from her Meta Meta Data Data presentation at Interesting this year. It's led to me putting some things in Daytum that previously would have gone unrecorded.
data  visualisation  daytum  presentation  interesting2009 
september 2009 by blech
Spark it Up | Frumination
Mapping the history of the NY Subway in ridership numbers. Old, but this is the sort of thing it'd be great to get the numbers from TfL for. This article also links to two other versions, the one on diametunim.com being most attractive, I'd say.
maps  visualisation  transport  nyc  sparkines  via:migurski 
july 2009 by blech
Sometimes all you need is data. | Dear Diagrammary
Using the NYC subway station usage data: "I wanted to be able to scrub back and forth in time, so I started working on a ModestMaps-powered map with a time slider. After getting the data into the right shape, it was pretty quick to get something simple but interactive and visual up" This is really rather excellent - the UI has lots of neat touches (like animating on clicking the slider). It's only a shame that the chances of getting similar data out of TfL are so close to zero.
nyc  subway  transport  train  map  visualisation  time  animation  flash  via:stamen 
may 2009 by blech
London Undersound & Oyster Challenge | Dan W
"The data is imported from Oyster via a greasemonkey script that runs when you log into your online TFL account." Which is great, except that Oyster card holders who don't use auto-top-up pre-pay get "Journey history displays records for journeys taken using pay as you go credit." when they look at the Oyster pages. Still, nice hacks for those who do have data.
london  tfl  oyster  hack  data  visualisation  transport  tube  personalinformatics  blogcomment 
may 2009 by blech
Daytum I love you but please join the web | Derivadow.com
Tom Scott calls out Daytum for lack of individual panels (actually there, but well hidden), lack of alternative representations, and the lack of an API. The latter is forthcoming, apparently.
daytum  information  visualisation  blogcomment  api 
april 2009 by blech
Getting Past the Pie Chart | Seed Magazine
"Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century."
science  visualisation  information  design  seedmagazine 
march 2009 by blech
Nicholas Felton: Curating Personal Behavior | S V A
"I was very excited, for example, to realize I could easily calculate an average speed for the year once I had calculated how many miles I had traveled."
design  visualisation  interview  feltron 
february 2009 by blech
Satellite Crash Animation | Google Earth Blog
"Thanks to the KML development efforts of James Stafford, you can use Google Earth's time animation feature to see the orbits of the two satellites from the six minutes before the impact until they meet. The file also includes one hour's worth of their orbital paths for some perspective."
google  google/earth  visualisation  space  satellite  collision  via:straup 
february 2009 by blech
On the move | meish.org
I need to steal, well, pretty much all of these for snaptrip, except per-country trips, which it already does (hurrah). Per-mode distances should be a quick hack on the current infrastructure [edit:done]. Personalised Flickr images and CSV export had come up before, but are no less good as ideas for that. Trip categorisation by stashing tags sounds like a nice idea. And I never did finish my 2008 stats graphs. So many ideas.
dopplr  snaptrip  visualisation  statistics  export  todo  blogcomment 
january 2009 by blech
Mapping: Infrastructure and flow | My heart's in Accra
"To build accurate maps, you can’t simply plot the location of an airport once - you’ve got to map each plane that flies during some period of time. Things that don’t stay put aren’t always happy about being mapped."
maps  visualisation  transport  data  ubicomp  via:straup 
december 2008 by blech
sniff_jazzbox for the iphone | AND-OR
"Try it out on your iphone and walk through town: You will experience a city with distinct locative melodies. Sniff_jazzbox creates an audible city. It converts the wlan-waves into sound waves. The extended version for iphone will let the user control instruments and speed of the melodies." Free as in beer, and derived from Nintendo DS homebrew.
iphone  visualisation  wifi  via:danhon 
december 2008 by blech
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Barbican
A really interesting interactive visualisation of the radio spectrum at the Curve (so it's free, and open late).
london  art  barbican  radio  science  installation  conceptualart  visualisation 
october 2008 by blech
Radiohead-houseofcards | ianmackinnon.co.uk
What is it with Radiohead fans and absurdly impressive, but undoubtedly time-consiming videos? First Big Ideas (Don't Get Any) and now this (using the data from Google Code).
radiohead  video  visualisation  lego  music  via:pauldwaite 
august 2008 by blech
Britain seen from above | BBC News
BBC News pimping their TV shows again, but what a show: this is a video of some of the best bits of Britain from the Air, which will feature visualitions of such things as air traffic, London taxis, ships in the Channel and telephone exchanges.
uk  bbc  visualisation  traffic  aviation  shipping  taxi  london  gps  video  telephone  via:joshua 
august 2008 by blech
TODAY, Mobile Application - Latest Images | CADA
"TODAY processes the communication activity on Symbian based mobile phones. It runs on the background monitoring incoming and outgoing calls and messages" "Based on your phone usage, the program generates a graphic of your communication"
visualisation  mobile  images  via:tristanf 
june 2008 by blech
One week of the Guardian: Monday | Designing The News
I need to go back and look at these properly when I have time, and then decide which piece of ffffound fodder is the best. Visualisations of the news by type in the Guardian for a week earlier this year.
guardian  news  newspapers  visualisation  art  design  type  via:jack 
may 2008 by blech
Processing.js | John Resig
Impressive, but almost as interesting are the 350 links in 5 hours, and that fact that it's about 50% of my network's output since then. As yoz put it: " it bounces on a lot of coolness buttons in one go".
javascript  canvas  design  development  graphics  visualisation  web  processing  via:everyone 
may 2008 by blech
Twitter Charts | Xefer
Really nice Twitter visualisation using Google Charts, Yahoo Pipes and so on. Only let down, as so many Twitter tools are, by its inability to look at private timelines (bring on the OAuth already).
twitter  charts  pipes  javascript  google  google/charts  visualisation  via:psd 
may 2008 by blech
City Distances | Bestiario
Shows the links between cities as indexed by Google. Certainly very nice to look at and play with.
google  cities  visualisation  maps  interface  via:tomc 
april 2008 by blech
Transport informatics | cityofsound
A nice big dense post of resources about transport information, visualisation and how to increase usage
transport  visualisation  cities  buses  train  walking  london  helsinki  design  maps  blogcomment 
april 2008 by blech
Google Visualization API | Google Code
An API allowing you to use or build visualisations with your Google documents. Tom Insam suggests that as it's built on iGoogle it should also work with OpenSocial apps.
api  graph  development  visualisation  google  google/code 
march 2008 by blech
White - Spectrum | BBC Two
A visualisation of comments to a BBC News Have Your Say debate on whether white people are ignored. The comments are sadly their usual incoherent mess, but it's pretty. Hurrah for Helvetica.
bbc  news  visualisation  graphics  data  comment  haveyoursay 
march 2008 by blech
WorldWide Telescope (video) | TED Talks
Not a bad teaching tool, I suppose, but it's not unique (Google Sky) and the hyperbole is nauseating. A revolution on a par with Galileo? Please. The name's awful, too, candace points out: a telescope gives you new data, not just new combinations.
science  astronomy  microsoft  visualisation  maps  video  planetarium  via:plasticbag  via:foe 
march 2008 by blech
Revealing Paris Through Velib' Data | 7.5th Floor
A nice video showing the amount of the Velib rental bicycles at each of the stations for a single day in February 2008.
paris  bicycle  transport  google  google/earth  visualisation  video  data  youtube  via:cityofsound 
march 2008 by blech
Dynamite | if (here)
Ruby interface to Processing. More for other people than me, I suspect, but then I'm half expecting to find they've already all seen it.
java  ruby  processing  art  programming  visualisation 
february 2008 by blech
storage | forre.st
A live chart showing for the price (in dollars) per gigabyte of storage on commodity (SATA) drives. Handy, since drawing those yourself can be a right pain. A UK version would be nice though.
storage  visualisation  computer  hardware  backup 
january 2008 by blech
New York Terrain | Google Maps
See, I said New York got wireframe skyscrapers. Aren't they pretty? In fact, there's a bit of me that thinks this belongs on ffffound instead.
google  maps  images  architecture  visualisation 
december 2007 by blech
Explore new terrain | Google LatLong
Out: hybrid view. (Actually, it's still there, but kind of hidden: mouseover Satellite and check "Show Labels".) In: terrain. Not that there is much in London (apparently New York gets wireframe skyscrapers.)
google  maps  visualisation 
december 2007 by blech
Ordnance Survey and Google on Virtual London
"Despite the best of our efforts we have been informed by Google and the Ordnance Survey that our Virtual London model will not be appearing in Google Earth due to data licensing issues." They're pretty clear the blame lies with the OS too.
london  google  maps  architecture  visualisation  data  geowanking  copyright 
august 2007 by blech
starstuff.blogspot.com: "Google Sky" coming soon?
Speculation by Travis Metcalfe from last December about using the Google Maps interface with NASA sky survey data. It'd be a bit odd (you're inside a sphere for the sky, rather than outside as with Earth) but it should work.
google  astronomy  visualisation  maps  via:ade 
july 2007 by blech
rjp - graphs
Graphs of twitter, flickr, zooomr, and cricket.
visualisation  graphics 
april 2007 by blech

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