Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:29:00 -0700 LOVE LOVE this!: JESS3 on Data Viz as Snackable Social Objects (love love love!) http://1001tales.posterous.com/love-love-this-jess3-on-data-viz-as-snackable http://1001tales.posterous.com/love-love-this-jess3-on-data-viz-as-snackable

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Fri, 06 May 2011 17:32:00 -0700 Data Viz of YOUR Social Networks - LOVE! Fizz — Social Network Visualization — by Bloom http://1001tales.posterous.com/data-viz-of-your-social-networks-love-fizz-so http://1001tales.posterous.com/data-viz-of-your-social-networks-love-fizz-so
Check out this website I found at fizz.bloom.io

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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:45:40 -0700 Visualization of live twitter traffic during the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards http://1001tales.posterous.com/visualization-of-live-twitter-traffic-during http://1001tales.posterous.com/visualization-of-live-twitter-traffic-during

Borrows visual aesthetic of Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg's visualization of body parts mentioned in different music genre lyrics. And the Fleshmap data viz can be found here:

http://www.fleshmap.com/listen/genre_hip_hop.html

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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:59:43 -0700 Grazie! The Knowledge. Simon Rogers' 10 Best Sites for Data Viz | Think Quarterly http://1001tales.posterous.com/grazie-the-knowledge-simon-rogers-10-best-sit http://1001tales.posterous.com/grazie-the-knowledge-simon-rogers-10-best-sit

Information is Beautiful

Data journalist and design whiz David McCandless’ Information is Beautiful blog is a treasure-trove of cool visualisations and mash-ups. His work has also been published in a bestselling book of the same name.

Flowing Data

If someone, somewhere, is producing a great data visualisation or analysis, Nathan Yau’s blog will find it. Yau has an unerring ability to unearth the best data visualisations on the web. He also produces graphics, and is a regular poster to the Guardian Datastore Flickr group.

Patrick Cain’s Map Blog

Canadian Patrick Cain is a ‘journalist who makes maps for the web’. Based in Toronto, Cain takes the city’s data and maps it – producing guides to everything from crime figures to World War I deaths and single parent families. A fan of open data, Cain has a record of demanding data from the city’s authorities using Freedom of Information laws.

Timetric

If you’re looking for time series economic data – and a nifty way of creating a sophisticated, embeddable graphic – this is the place to come. Timetric updates thousands of datasets every day and provides an easy-to-use interface that makes it very simple to create your own.

OWNI

Although a lot of the best data work is done in English, Paris-based OWNI is a collective of geeks and data freaks producing visualisations and apps that manage to be imaginative and innovative. The collective’s work on Wikileaks – which allowed people to interrogate the data – won a 2010 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence.

Guardian Datablog

The Guardian and its Datablog publishes raw data behind the news every day, and encourages readers to visualise and work with it. The site publishes its data using Google spreadsheets and Google Fusion Tables, and allows readers to search thousands of government datasets around the world.

Infochimps

The big brains at Infochimps have come up with an innovative way to find, share and sell formatted data. Both users and the site’s own contributors collate and scrape datasets so that they’re easily accessible. With big plans for expansion and lots of intelligent developers onboard, it’s definitely one to watch.

DataMarket

This brand new site combines an innovative data search function with bright and imaginative visualisations. It also allows you to create your own, download them and put them in your PowerPoint presentation or company report.

LinkedIn

It might be better known for its impact on the world of social media, but LinkedIn also has a hugely innovative approach to data. LinkedIn has made collating and using data a priority, with lead data scientists completely integrated into the commercial operation.

London Datastore

Governments around the globe are opening up their data, from data.gov in the US, via Australia, the UK, New Zealand and France. One of the best and most useful is the London Datastore. Created by the Greater London Authority, it publishes thousands of datasets with the emphasis on useful, live data, such as transport and economic numbers. Developers are using those figures to create interesting apps, such as Matthew Somerville’s live train map for the London Underground.

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Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:27:00 -0700 Great interactive data viz: The 12 States of America - The Atlantic http://1001tales.posterous.com/great-interactive-data-viz-the-12-states-of-a http://1001tales.posterous.com/great-interactive-data-viz-the-12-states-of-a

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Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:12:00 -0800 A History of the World in 100 Seconds: Cool. Though I want to be able to pull the data out http://1001tales.posterous.com/a-history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds-cool-th http://1001tales.posterous.com/a-history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds-cool-th

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Paul Butler's description:

“I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment. As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world. Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points. After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map. Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines. I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn’t handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted.

Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world.”

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