Category Archives: Data Visualization

Two Turntable Drawing Apparatus

Really nice drawing machine by

Wind Map Data Visualization

Gorgeous data visualization by Fernanda Wattenberg, AKA Hint.fm showcasing the “invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.” Check it out here.

How to find great Pins for Pinterest – a Pinterest Hack

Pinterest is a great tool for curating visual information, empowering people to form valuable mental connections between groups of related, and unrelated images in a central space. What I really find fascinating about Pinterest is the images are already curated and filtered by human beings and friends within your social network, rather than a web [...]

One Year in 120 Seconds

Stunning stop motion of one year in Oslo, Norway in 120 seconds. The filmmaker Eric Solheim shares how he made it here. Amazing he did this without using any sort of tripods or rigs. via Day at a Glance.

Haunting Anti-War Bone Art

Beautiful execution of a series of photographs / logotypes entitled “Stop the Violence” created with human bones. Via FFFFound. When Francois Robert unexpectedly acquired a human skeleton in the 1990s, he knew he had to do something wonderful with it. Several years later when the economy collapsed and he found himself with time on his [...]

Paper Computing and MIT’s High-Low Tech Group

Randomly saw this video on Liveleak of MIT’s High-Low tech group’s project on a “kit for sketching electronics”, in which a designer is able to stick some crazy looking electronic components to a piece of paper and then draw with a pen to create a circuit. It’s really interesting at the end where an interface [...]

UVB-76 “The Buzzer” Numbers Station

Fascinating article in this month’s Wired about UVB-76, an enigmatic Soviet antenna that has been broadcasting sequences of coded numbers (AKA a “numbers station”) to secret agents and the military for the past 20 years. The mysterious phenomenon of numbers stations have been a cult obsession with shortwave radio enthusiasts for the past twenty to [...]

The Evolution of Video Game Controllers

Pop Chart Lab releases a print charting 119 controllers over seven decades. Visit their site to zoom in and see more details. The long-awaited reboot of the most extensive charting of video game controllers ever. Now detailing 119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming. (Props go to this guy for being the [...]

The Art of Clean Up – Data Visualizations from the Everyday

The making of: Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing a new book entitled, “The Art of Clean Up” where he deconstructs everyday scenes and objects into their individual elements based on size, shape, color and type. I love this, it’s almost like creating visual lists or data visualizations. Not sure where to get the book, [...]

If you’re bored, explore some data mining

Google has launched a new service called “Public Data Explorer” where you can explore various data visualizations of public information. You can always check what’s new on Google via Google Labs

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

Worth a watch… He’s sort of like a fake Edward Tufte. Curious what software (if any) he’s using to generate these charts. The comment thread is interesting. David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, [...]

Cold War Spy Listening Tower

I love this vid…

MIT Personas Project ~ visualize your persona through search ~

Pretty neat stuff. It’s cool how it builds the story about you. I wish there were other ways to visualize the data. The color bar sort of falls flat in my opinion, and doesn’t really tell you the story in a meaningful way. Try it out here. About the project: Enter your name, and Personas [...]

Imagespark moodboard generator and creative image tagging service

Just found out about this new product caled Imagespark. Really simple, elegant idea. They have provided browser-based software which allows users to tag images from anywhere on the web; i.e. Flickr, cool web sites, etc. Once you have tagged the images they go into your account, where you can arrange them into moodboards. The cool [...]

Crime Spoting in San Francisco

Our brother Brenden shared this website with us today. It is a great visualization to see what crimes and what times they are happening in the San Francisco Area. I am waiting for an iPhone application that connects to this website to give me alerts whenever I am crossing any dangerous spot. This application can [...]

GPS Art

Today our friend Mr. Montelongo and his GPS art project was featured in the New York Times. Below some images of the making off. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/fashion/20GPS.html

Inspiring Experiments with Data Visualization and Processing

Just found this link via Neil Smith on Twitter. Aaron Koblin is doing some really cool experiments with data visualization and processing. I never saw the Radiohead video for “House of Cards” before, but this is pretty neat stuff. Worth checking out.