a network-like visualization of the history of the America’s Cup through the visual depiction of all the people & the boats who are part of "the legend".
an online mapping website with a collection of browsable 3D isometric city maps of about 33 different cities in the world. each map is augmented with additional (user-generated) information about places of interests, restaurants, hotels & events.
a comic book made by Scott McCloud, creator of the classic comic Understanding Comics, which visually (& a bit infographically) explains the complex inner workings of their new open source browser Google Chrome.
the comic was designed as a printed book for journalists & bloggers, but online copies have been appearing since yesterday. the script was based on interviews with about 20 engineers who worked on the project, which was then adapted into comics form.
a custom-made casing for a flourescent tube light based on recording & graphing 1 second of the ambient 'hum' sound produced by the light. the resulting 3D volume consists of a frequency time graph of 50 sequential laser-cut acrylic layers, with each layer corresponding to 20ms of the sound recording
a comedy sketch based on a flip charts, lots of visual drawings & some freeform graphs, including a "Breakdown of Hummer Owners" & "How Funny I Find Farts (by Location)". presented by New York comedian Demetri Martin.
a series of artistic data sculptures whose form and content is determined by information (artistic, historical, political, social) from the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Gallup Organization, the Bureau of Labor Statistics & many other dataset sources.
for instance, in data sculpture titled "Corpse 2", the length of each of piece is divided into 90 equal parts, each one representing a year of age, from infancy (0-1 year) to the 90th year, moving from the thin end to the thick. the width of each section is determined by the average (1976 to 1998) number of non-gun homicides per year for people at that age. the vertical dimension is set by the number of gun homicides.
a collection of mainly graphical results from a research project that focused on revealing how people feel anger, joy, fear, sadness & love. a simple survey asked 250 participants between the ages of 6 & 75 years from 35 different countries to graphically represent these emotions on a set of human silhouettes. the resulting drawings were compiled in layered Photoshop documents. in addition, participants could express emotions textually or choose appropriate colors. the text results were analyzed on frequency, while the color choices determine a DNA-like frequency pattern.
an online information dashboard that summarizes & graphs the Internet activity relating to the 2008 presidential elections, in an attempt to compare the similarities & the disparities between the mainstream media & user-generated content.
perspctv's current graphs include the "CNN national poll of polls", news mentions, blogosphere mentions, Twitter mentions, a US electoral map & Google Trends-based timelines comparing the names of the candidates.
an interesting news article about the distribution of world records in sporting events & the recent 200m sprint at the Olympic Games in particular. the story links to several interactive graphs that highlight the lack of a normal distribution, as outliers are more prevalent due to the extreme tails of highly selected samples, where usual statistical patterns rarely hold.
an 8 minute "lively" infographic movie about the progress & problems of globalisation. enjoy the people-based bar & line graphs, & top-view world maps.
several design for a bathroom based on pixel drawings made out of classic 4 by 4 inch colored tiles. the one based on a subway map seems quite infosthetic.
an online web service that allows users to visualize & share snippets of all sorts of data in form of simple statistical graphs. the Mycrocosm project focuses on social communication & the creation of individual & biographical data profiles (e.g. Feltron's annual report), rather than possible uses of data tracking (e.g. Track-n-Graph) or social visualization (e.g. Many Eyes).
the project seems to come very close to Feltron's Daytum (seemingly still in private beta).
an online visualization designed by Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg & the crowdsourcing specialists at Dolores Labs, which explores the relationship between the body & its visual & verbal representation.
the Touch body heatmap investigates the collective perception of erogenous zones, based on the input of 100s of people that ranked how good it would feel to touch or be touched by a lover in different points of the body.
the Look interface analyzes the individuality and hidden surprises that each body reveals when bared by abstracting & categorizing visual forms of male nipples & female breasts.
the Listen interface charts how often a specific body part is mentioned in different music genres genre, based on a sample of 1000s songs.
a collection of physical data sculptures made from found objects of graphs & charts mapping a variety of datasets. the linear geometric forms could easily be dismissed as homage to minimalist object making until the titles reveal their true meaning. the sculptures are pictorial devices measuring human behavior, ranging from military expenditure, US population by race, global tobacco production & so on.
a small interactive homage to Ben Shneiderman, as an interface resembling his portrait photo, made out of almost a 1,000 thumbnail pictures of different visualization techniques, such as diagrams, charts, maps, tables or visual metaphors.
21st August marks the birthday of Ben, the famous Professor at the University of Maryland who provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction, & more recently, on information visualization, for instance inventing the treemap visualization technique for representing hierarchical data.
