Beautiful and Confusing US Open Data Visualization

From an info aesthetics article…

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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…

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Big Bang

Big Bang is a new trend map from iA – the same folks that brought us the Web Trend Map poster series. This sucker takes a look at a level abstracted from actual domains – social networks.
I particularly enjoyed this quote:
Since twitter is becoming an alternative web protocol that—together with facebook—gets close and closer to…

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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).

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Insanely Beautiful

Older Magnetosphere/Turbulence/Nebula render from flight404 on Vimeo.
Checking out the redesign of flight 404, I came across this on Vimeo. Wow.

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What Would MPs Really Make?

Great looking data visualization of parliamentary salary normalized across different countries. I especially like that rotation correlated to “good government”, though I’d take issue with where the United States is positioned. By Shake Up Media.

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VizualPV3D

VizualPV3D is a free Flash application that provides a GUI interface to create and manipulate objects in 3D scenes using Papervision3D.
A Juxt Interactive project, designed and developed by Gary Stasiuk, VizualPV3D provides a visual interface to Papervision3D that not only helps people see exactly what they are getting, but also enables designers and non-developers to…

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Physical Changeable Buttons On a Visual Display

(hat tip Bred)

Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, recently proposed it can be done in the research project titled “Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display”…. He is also the author behind data visualization projects like Digg Rings, Amazon Book Map, Google Trigrams, Visualizing the…

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Stamen Design Continues to Impress

Just stumbled upon this article from Ad Age and found the SF MOMA Art Scope project Stamen Design did:

Stamen keeps impressing with the narratives they’re able to put together by visualizing and manipulating data in new, interesting and engaging ways.

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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…

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