During my recent stint as guest-editor on Infosthetics, I profiled a new tool called DataAppeal which allows you to upload and map geospatial data in three-dimension on top of a Google Earth map.
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I’m delighted to share with you details of my entry for the Visualizing.org UN Global Pulse visualisation challenge. The title of the work is “Giving Voices to the Vulnerable: The Economic Crisis” and explores survey data gathered by UN Global Pulse about perceptions of economic impact across five countries: India, Iraq, Mexico, Uganda and Ukraine.
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I’m delighted to share details with you of a challenging visualisation project I’ve been working on in collaboration with the team at the engine room. The title of the work is “Protests and the Media” and explores the recent uprising in the Middle East and North Africa, termed the Arab Spring. This data visualisation project
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As somebody anxiously following the latest situation of the Iceland volcanic ash cloud, I find it fascinating just how much emphasis and influence the visualisation output from the UK Met Office is having on the response. Whilst other information is of course being gathered and consulted, the overlayed ash cloud data on this map design
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Nice piece of work from the Washington Post graphics team, presenting an effective small multiples/heatmap fusion to demonstrate how the financial crisis has impacted on a range of industries across the US in terms of job numbers. Each horizontal sections presents the ups and downs of the different industries. Each strip is a month’s increase
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SoundAffects is an experiential project collaboration between mono, Parsons The New School for Design and Tellart. The purpose of this ten day project is to capture real-time city data and translate this in to a musical and visualisation representation, helping us explore and think about cities in new ways. The hub of this New York
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Pablo from Spanish developers Undefined has sent me details of a new project he and his colleagues created for the Radio Televisión Espanola website. This interactive creation visualises Twitter activity surrounding the Eurovision song contest, which took place last Saturday 14th, as well as the historic patterns of competition voting and final rankings. Developed in
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Since 1996 cars have been built with on-board computers to capture and store a wide range of diagnostic and performance information. Until now this information has largely been the preserve of mechanics and manufacturer garages, until now… Thanks to a new device from Griffin called ‘CarTrip’, you can tap into this data and draw insight
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LIVE Singapore! is a really exciting project from the SENSEable City Lab and part of the Future Urban Mobility research initiative at the Singapore and MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Researchers have collaborated on the development of an open platform for collating and publishing a range of innovative, real-time data visualisations about the city.
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If you’ve not heard there has been a massive earthquake off the North East coast of Japan this morning. This has caused devastation within the region, there are some staggering videos and images emerging. It has also triggered a pacific-wide Tsunami threat which may impact on many regions across that side of the globe. For
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