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Crime Doesn't {{Insert Variable}} | GeoSprocket Community Jive

blech — 2014-01-28T06:35:01+00:00

“There’s no citywide relationship between crime rate and elevation in San Francisco.” Other factors are at work.

어디를 가든 무엇을 타든 네이버 지도 | 네이버 지도

blech — 2013-11-11T18:35:45+00:00

Korean maps with Street View, but from cute bubbly planes (via http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/66500943185/naver-maps-skyview-naver-the-dominating-online)

Thinking with Joins | Mike Bostock

blech — 2013-11-07T21:27:46+00:00

"Instead of telling D3 how to do something, tell D3 what you want. You want the circle elements to correspond to data. You want one circle per datum. Instead of instructing D3 to create circles, then, tell D3 that the selection "circle" should correspond to data. This concept is called the data join."

Making data sensible with a Bayesian analysis | Data Muncher

blech — 2013-11-01T19:45:23+00:00

"Here I investigate the murder rates (number of arrests by population of 100,000) in 2010 and show that a Bayesian approach gives more sensible results than a simple approach."

Venn Diagrams with D3.js | benfrederickson.com

blech — 2013-09-10T09:56:07+00:00

"I don't know Javascript, and I want to learn D3 since I keep on seeing so many beautiful looking visualizations being made with it. To get started with this, I thought I'd try use D3 to create the simplest possible visualization I could think of - the Venn diagram." I might try and expand intersect.husk.org with this at some point.

How to make 3d maps of Mars | stamen design

blech — 2013-06-29T01:34:58+00:00

How to make 3d maps of Mars

Home | ISS Photo Locations

blech — 2013-03-25T16:40:50+00:00

"Since the first mission to the International Space Station over 12 years ago there have been over a million photographs taken by astronauts looking out from four hundred kilometers above Earth. Nearly all of them have been archived on NASA’s servers. I’ve crawled that archive, pulling down the location for each of the 1,129,177 photographs taken from the ISS." A fairly simple visualisation (although at reasonable scale), but it looks very good.

The Sound of the Internet | The Morning News

blech — 2012-03-28T14:09:17+00:00

"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.

Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 | BBC News

blech — 2011-12-05T18:56:52+00:00

"A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain's roads between 1999 and 2010."

Visualizing Data at the Oxford Internet Institute | Mapping Flickr

blech — 2011-09-30T18:34:44+00:00

"Our program downloaded the count of geotagged photographs in every 0.5 x 0.5 degree latitude-longitude square on the Earth’s surface."

Boston’s photographic colors | Bostonography

blech — 2011-09-06T03:57:44+00:00

"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."

The Emotional Breakdown | Friends of The Web

blech — 2011-08-23T17:32:53+00:00

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).

Finding Music With Pictures | storify.com

blech — 2011-03-21T05:16:31+00:00

A nice collection of some of the visualisations that Paul Lamere's SXSWi talk on music and discovery covered.

new ways to see and communicate | Bloom

blech — 2011-02-22T16:21:20+00:00

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.

Sunrise and sunset directions | SunCalc

blech — 2011-02-03T01:06:55+00:00

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.

When Should I Visit? - Made by Dan W

blech — 2011-02-02T17:01:17+00:00

madebywilliams: Wrote up When Should I Visit?, my hack from @culturehackday at http://iamdanw.com/made/whenshouldivisit/

Conductor in progress video | Alexander Chen

blech — 2011-01-24T02:26:29+00:00

"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."

Project Hosting on Google Code | logstalgia

blech — 2010-12-22T17:04:29+00:00

"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."

Your time machine for the web | Memolane

blech — 2010-12-21T17:38:15+00:00

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.

Transamerica Cone of Invisibility | Burrito Justice

blech — 2010-12-08T23:08:37+00:00

"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."

Thamestide: A London Companion | booktwo.org

blech — 2010-11-30T18:24:56+00:00

"'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).

DEXTR - Twitter for your second screen | RIG

blech — 2010-11-11T16:43:27+00:00

"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.

More Flickr Mapping | floatingsheep

blech — 2010-10-14T17:52:30+00:00

"Building on our visualisation of 34 million geotagged Flickr images, we have decided to map the data normalised by population and area."

Fun exploring EXIF data with Tableau! | Taraji Blue

blech — 2010-09-07T17:22:40+00:00

"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."

The truth about London cycle hire | Telegraph Blogs

blech — 2010-08-24T14:48:47+00:00

"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."

Archipelago | URBAGRAM

blech — 2010-08-20T21:42:06+00:00

"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.

The transformer: principles of making Isotype charts | Hyphen Press

blech — 2010-08-09T06:30:22+00:00

"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."

indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy | FlowingData

blech — 2010-08-03T11:08:56+00:00

"Indiemapper is kind of like an Adobe Illustrator for maps online. Load your data, pick the features of focus, and then map it."

How we became metadata | University of Westminster

blech — 2010-06-10T10:13:09+00:00

"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.

Visualizing Your Life on Twitter, IM, Delicious, and Blogger | Grafitter

blech — 2010-06-06T17:49:20+00:00

"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.

London Tube Flows | Oliver G O'Brien

blech — 2010-04-28T19:25:37+00:00

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.

Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on Mac | DaisyDisk

blech — 2010-04-25T12:34:15+00:00

"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.

diskring | Project Hosting on Google Code

blech — 2010-04-25T12:31:59+00:00

"DiskRing is a Mac OS X utility that displays the disk usage through a handy ring chart effect (like GNOME's Baobab)"

milkshake whispering | this is aaronland

blech — 2010-04-06T21:33:25+00:00

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.

The View from Above | n96.org

blech — 2010-03-13T18:08:31+00:00

Lovely.

Interesting 2009 - a set | Flickr

blech — 2009-09-30T05:55:42+00:00

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.

Spark it Up | Frumination

blech — 2009-07-03T12:17:49+00:00

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.

Sometimes all you need is data. | Dear Diagrammary

blech — 2009-05-18T20:28:52+00:00

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.

London Undersound & Oyster Challenge | Dan W

blech — 2009-05-13T09:32:02+00:00

"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.

Daytum I love you but please join the web | Derivadow.com

blech — 2009-04-06T20:43:42+00:00

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.

Getting Past the Pie Chart | Seed Magazine

blech — 2009-03-12T10:36:13+00:00

"Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century."

Nicholas Felton: Curating Personal Behavior | S V A

blech — 2009-02-18T12:24:46+00:00

"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."

Satellite Crash Animation | Google Earth Blog

blech — 2009-02-13T20:40:21+00:00

"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."

On the move | meish.org

blech — 2009-01-20T23:49:14+00:00

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.

Mapping: Infrastructure and flow | My heart's in Accra

blech — 2008-12-30T21:04:40+00:00

"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."

sniff_jazzbox for the iphone | AND-OR

blech — 2008-12-27T19:27:42+00:00

"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.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Barbican

blech — 2008-10-13T10:18:04+00:00

A really interesting interactive visualisation of the radio spectrum at the Curve (so it's free, and open late).

Radiohead-houseofcards | ianmackinnon.co.uk

blech — 2008-08-07T11:14:20+00:00

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).

Britain seen from above | BBC News

blech — 2008-08-03T19:29:59+00:00

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.

TODAY, Mobile Application - Latest Images | CADA

blech — 2008-06-04T10:29:49+00:00

"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"

One week of the Guardian: Monday | Designing The News

blech — 2008-05-09T09:44:54+00:00

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.

Processing.js | John Resig

blech — 2008-05-09T08:39:14+00:00

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".

Twitter Charts | Xefer

blech — 2008-05-07T13:36:35+00:00

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).

City Distances | Bestiario

blech — 2008-04-22T22:43:50+00:00

Shows the links between cities as indexed by Google. Certainly very nice to look at and play with.

Transport informatics | cityofsound

blech — 2008-04-16T14:32:31+00:00

A nice big dense post of resources about transport information, visualisation and how to increase usage

Google Visualization API | Google Code

blech — 2008-03-19T17:52:45+00:00

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.

White - Spectrum | BBC Two

blech — 2008-03-15T16:11:19+00:00

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.

WorldWide Telescope (video) | TED Talks

blech — 2008-03-01T15:26:45+00:00

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.

Revealing Paris Through Velib' Data | 7.5th Floor

blech — 2008-03-01T12:10:19+00:00

A nice video showing the amount of the Velib rental bicycles at each of the stations for a single day in February 2008.

Dynamite | if (here)

blech — 2008-02-18T10:07:34+00:00

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.

storage | forre.st

blech — 2008-01-15T13:54:29+00:00

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.

New York Terrain | Google Maps

blech — 2007-12-03T15:12:44+00:00

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.

Explore new terrain | Google LatLong

blech — 2007-12-03T15:06:22+00:00

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.)

Ordnance Survey and Google on Virtual London

blech — 2007-08-10T15:53:20+00:00

"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.

starstuff.blogspot.com: "Google Sky" coming soon?

blech — 2007-07-26T06:53:52+00:00

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.

rjp - graphs

blech — 2007-04-01T14:08:42+00:00

Graphs of twitter, flickr, zooomr, and cricket.