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Tag Archives: data-visualization
August 26, 2010
Crop Circles in the Stock Market
I read an article in Zero Hedge a while ago about how the “flash crash” in the stock market was a direct result of “quote stuffing”, a fraudulent practice designed to manipulate stock prices in predictable directions enabled by the over-automation of the market through algorithmic trading.
Recently I stumbled upon a daily blog dedicated to…
August 2, 2010
Where Are the Ants?
This reminds me of a flex-coded, corporate version the machine in Darren Aronofsky’s Pi. Only with fewer ants creating the special sauce (sorry for the spoiler but I think 12 years is past the statute of limitations). Seriously though, data-mining and trend-spotting algorithms are big business in todays T.I.A. world. And that’s fine – the…
April 11, 2010
Digging in the Crates
This has gotten a lot of attention lately, but I think it’s worth a re-post. So sexy.
Digging in the Crates from WE AIN’T PLASTIC on Vimeo.
March 8, 2010
Go Tufte!
(from combustion)
Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment
Edward Tufte, March 7, 2010:
I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds:
“The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of…
February 3, 2010
Feltron Is At It Again
Absolutely beautiful personal data visualizations are now available to view in Feltron’s 2009 Annual Report. Don’t forget to buy a copy. Someone tell Mulvey his designer-crush just turned a new page (literally).
September 9, 2009
Reimagining the File System
Why doesn’t this:
Look more like this:
Push and Play
Or even this:
Well Formed Eigenfactor™
?
September 3, 2009
The Question of Aesthetics in Info Viz
Cathching up on some blog-reading I stumbled across this link. The post, Information Visualization Manifesto, is more “10-tips” than Manifesto, but still a valuable read nonetheless.
Though I do have one (sort of major) qualm. Manuel Lima writes:
The power of Narrative
Human beings love stories and storytelling is one of the most successful and powerful ways to…
March 3, 2009
Not A Fanboy, But…
I’m no Microsoft fanboy, but this future-vision piece they put together paints quite an exciting view of the future. I especially love the idea of children collaborating and interacting from across the world, becasue if there’s anything we could use at this point, it’s a deeper understand and respect for divergent cultures & customs.
The tech…
November 3, 2008
The Work of Pitch Interactive
Pitch Interactive, from Madison Wisconsin does some really nice Data Visualization work. The above image is from a spread they had in Esquire Magazine (the issue with the E-Ink on the cover). Check them out.