roomthily

Drawing Dynamic Visualizations, Bret Victor

journo-geekery:

Subreddit connections, via colleague:

This jellyfish-looking thing is a social network-analysis of all of Reddit’s subreddits redditstuff.github.io/sna/

— Michael Roston (@michaelroston) May 14, 2013

The third image is from colleague Erik Hinton.

Visual Book Selector - multi-attribute selection and filtering of the Guardian 1000 novels everyone must read

by Neoformix

bike sharing in Paris

Facebook analysis using Wolfram Alpha’s Data Donors dataset

via Stephen Wolfram Blog

urbantick:

Infographic: Foursquare’s New Tool Maps Your Check-Ins As we amass more and more data about ourselves, the big challenge will be creating tools that help us put it to use in productive, positive ways. A quantified self is not necessarily an improved one. In the meantime, though, some personalized eye-candy can’t hurt. Foursquare launched its own visualization tool last week, letting users view their last 12 months of activity in a few different ways. In each, check-ins are represented by colorful little badges. You can sort them by date or by category, which line the badges up into orderly little rows. The latter will probably just confirm what you already know: you go out for coffee way too often.

A circular “connections” view is a little more insightful, showing all the different places you went throughout the year after checking in at a certain location. Here, you might get confirmation of things you already knew deep down but never really liked to acknowledge. You’ll be able to see, say, where you tend to check-in after sessions at the gym. Take-out food joints? Oh well, you’ve earned it, or something. As the company wrote in a blog post accompanying the release, the tool is “just our small way of saying, ‘Thanks! We think you’re awesome.’” Also a small way of saying think how much cooler these would look if you used Foursquare more often. Try it out for yourself here. [Hat tip: Gizmodo]

Via

fastcompany:

in the big data needs of St. Helena

via Visualising Data

and it’s terrifying

Creation of the World (sagamar) - creation of the world myths

mix waters five times, castrate father god, create wooden people and perfect world is ready!

jtotheizzoe:

Everyone, Together

This webpage is about one mile long (depending on your browser resolution). It has one figure for every person on Earth, color-coded by region. 

It is a stunning way to put into scale the 7+ billion people on Earth. I’ve zoomed in and out and my mind is just sort of blown. I don’t know who you are, person #5,779,280,035, but you look great.

Previously: Killer interactive “scale of the universe” app because WHOOOOOA.