Saturday, July 16, 2011

Viz: Showing the Location of Tweets and Flickr Photos

Beautiful, but are they interactive? What do they tell me beside bandwidth and location? 

Bits Pics: Showing the Location of Tweets and Flickr Photos

Friday, July 15, 2011

Event:: Mark your calendars: HTML5 hackathons

Here's hoping they come to the triangle soon. 

Mark your calendars: HTML5 hackathons

By Mihai Ionescu, Developer Advocate

Event:: Mark your calendars: HTML5 hackathons

Here's hoping they come to the triangle soon. 

Mark your calendars: HTML5 hackathons

By Mihai Ionescu, Developer Advocate

Find: A Non-Designer's Guide to Creating Awesome Diagrams for Slides

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Tool: Visual.ly Is An Infographics Hub With Tools to Create Your Own

Looks very interesting. Has vizzes and tools. A focus on infographics rather than viz tho. 

Visual.ly Is An Infographics Hub With Tools to Create Your Own [Infographics]

Visual.ly Is An Infographics Hub With Tools to Create Your Own #more

New service Visual.ly features over 2000 infographics on a range of topics from economics to history. The site also has tools to help people interested in creating their own infographics get started, build them, and share them with a community of fans and companies like CNN, National Geographic, and more.


The infographics already available at Visual.ly span topics as complicated as global arms sales to seemingly simple (but not really) topics like the overall financial impact of a snowstorm. There are plenty to see, but if you're interested in making your own, the Visual.ly Labs give you the tools to build your own, starting from templates.


For example, one of the templates allows you to compare yourself with another Twitter user, or with a Twitter celebrity. The site will add additional templates soon to help more data-driven groups present their research in interesting ways. If you're a fan of infographics, it's worth a look.


Visual.ly Is An Infographics Hub With Tools to Create Your Own Visual.ly | via The Next Web




You can reach Alan Henry, the author of this post, at alan@lifehacker.com, or better yet, follow him on Twitter.




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Viz: Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”

A nice comparative analysis

via charliepark.org on 7/14/11

An overview of Edward Tufte’s “slopegraphs”; their history; good and bad examples; when to use slopegraphs; slopegraph best practices. (from Charlie Park)

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Find: The explosion of connected devices

The explosion of data sensors, senders and receivers will need more computation, especially visualization. Attention will be ever more precious.

The explosion of connected devices