Monthly Archives: June 2008

NYT Info Viz of Global Wealth

By admin | Published: June 20, 2008

(via the NYT) The increased activity comes as other kinds of acquirers have been sidelined by the credit crisis. These funds are state-sponsored investment vehicles and have combined assets of $2 trillion. With that much dry powder, sovereign funds dwarf the formerly booming private equity industry and in some cases, compete directly with it. The [...]

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Bugs That Eat Waste And Excrete Petrol

By admin | Published: June 18, 2008

(via TimesOnline UK) “Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – [...]

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BBC White Spectrum

By admin | Published: June 18, 2008

Lots of news visualizations using the color spectrum lately – here’s the BBC’s.

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New Look for South Street Seaport

By admin | Published: June 18, 2008

(via Archinect) Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a “festival marketplace” — these days, it is not much more than a waterfront mall — its owners plan to replace it with a mixed-use project including a 42-story, 495-foot apartment and hotel tower, wrapped in a terra-cotta exoskeleton and rising from new [...]

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Cool Processing Data Viz

By admin | Published: June 17, 2008

(via code_swarm) code_swarm – Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo. This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. [...]