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A series of art projects based on Flickr. The Flickr tag cloud tshirt is clever; the printing on the shirts is reversed so that you can read them in the mirror…”the [Flickr user’s] narrative is actually addressing himself while claiming to address others”. (via ia)
PDF (2.3 Mb) of nifty infoviz graphs that show different improvisation styles for jazz greats Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. More here. Reminds me a little of Tufte’s sparklines.
The letter-pairs analysis application reads in some text and displays a graphical representation of distribution of letter pairs used in the text. Love the aesthetics of the information display.
Interview with Josh On, creator of They Rule. I hadn’t realized he was quite so socialist.
Color Code is a “color portrait of the English language”. It’s a treemap visualization created by assigning over 33,000 words its own color (colors are determined by averaging the colors of images found for each word on the web). If it’s running a little slow on your machine, check out the gallery for some neat examples. By Martin Wattenberg, creator of the grandaddy treemap app, Map of the Market.
A craigslist missed connection for any of the hot women who were in the audience for Edward Tufte’s lecture. Not too picky, this guy, he’ll take any beautiful woman who was there. Quick, someone snap him up before he makes another sparklines pun.
Visualization of email archives as a mountain with layers. “Each layer in the Mountain represents a different person. Layers are ordered by time, with the first people in the email archive at the bottom and the most recent people in the archive at the top right portion of the mountain.”
Philip Stewart has constructed an alternate version of the periodic table of elements in the form of a “chemical galaxy”. “The intention is not to replace the familiar table, but to complement it and at the same time to stimulate the imagination and to evoke wonder at the order underlying the universe.”
Quick sketch of London tube traffic patterns. The spider that ate London.
The trophies for the Contagious Media Showdown were printed on Eyebeam’s 3-D printer. But even better, each trophy had that winning site’s traffic graph printed on it…the trophy for big winner Forget-Me-Not Panties is on the right.
A visual history of sampling; who’s been sampled and who’s doing the sampling.
Sparklines of landscapes of a few American states. The one for Missouri has a little arch while the Iowa sparkline is almost flat.
Long interview with Edward Tufte from Technical Communication Quarterly.
“A campaign for the Portuguese political magazine Grande Reportagem … turns flags of various countries into infographics by adding a legend”. For the US flag: “Red: In favor of the war in Iraq, White: Against the war in Iraq, Blue: Don’t know where Iraq is.”
An outline of Edward Tufte’s three books on information display.
Tufte has revised his chapter on sparklines. Sparklines are “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”.
Sparklines are “intense word-sized graphics”. From Tufte’s upcoming book, Beautiful Evidence
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