The New York Times has been putting a great emphasis on public consumption of data, from understanding data to access to data. They initially started with information graphics that visualized complex data sets into something easy to digest. The nytimes.com versions were also interactive, engaging the reader to understand the data in more [...]
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Window Shopping
Amazon has released Windowshop. Essentially a pseudo 3D wall you can move across and zoom in on a product. When you zoom in you’re presented with video or audio material about the product. Looks like the products presented are recent releases in categories such as Movies, Books, and Music.
Seems like an interesting [...]
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Subprime Bust Explanation
The great folks at XPLANE have put together a infographic video explaining how we got into this Subprime debacle.
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Political Wordle Bullets
You can have so much fun with Wordle. This example is based off of taking a few minutes worth of Twitter tweets about Obama, Biden, McCain, and Palin. Ironically, Wordle made them look like bullets pointing at each other.
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Location, Location, Location
Trulia launched a new feature, actually a few months ago, called truliasnapshot. It’s a easy to use interface that allows you to select a slice of homes in a city.
When you search for homes in Trulia, Zillow, or most other realtor websites, you enter in the following preferences:
City, State
Type of Property
Price Range
Beds
Baths
Sqft
Other Amenities
The result [...]
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Timeline Visualizations
For the longest time, I’ve wanted to keep a simple view of my day, one that includes planned and ad-hoc events. As a bonus, something I could share with my wife, family, and friends.
Enter Mixin, a web application that’s focused on tracking your time in a simple sharable manner. I can overlay my [...]
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The Story of Stuff
Story of Stuff is a infographic heavy video to help viewers understand the production and consumption patterns of the world.
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Infographics Design Patterns
My new favorite reference site for infographic design patterns.
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Buy vs. Rent
While researching for home buying tips, I ran across several articles and calculators on the topic of buying a home versus renting. One of the better tools was provided by NY Times in their financial section.
The calculator allows you to enter in your current rent, potential price of a home, and various other factors [...]
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Audio Rays
More fun with Processing, this time utilizing the Ess library to analyze Apologize by OneRepublic. Each spoke of the radial utilizes a band in the audio spectrum to determine its length. The result is a beating image.
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