Viz: Nielsen: Android accounts for 39 percent of smartphones in the US, Apple is the top device maker

Effective use of hierarchy. Color more than just distinguishing parts: companies. Eg htc makes android and wp7 devices, has same color. Colors seem isoluminant, avoiding visual ordering of nominal data, but creating trouble for color blind folk. 

Nielsen: Android accounts for 39 percent of smartphones in the US, Apple is the top device maker

Homework: viz, data and tool examples

We will start quickly by asking each of you to find three online examples: one visualization example, one data example, and one tool example. You can find more information about what to look for and how to turn these in on our class website. You must turn in one example during each of the first three weeks, in any order: that is visualization, tool, data or data, visualization, tool etc. Due dates are end of day on

• Monday 8/22
• Monday 8/29
• Tuesday 9/6

Leader: Manuel Lima

He's the author of visualcomplexity.org, now working on vizzing search results. 

Manuel Lima

Job: Work With Us

Follow the link to find some nice nyt visualizations. Also, the NYT Open blog is a nice place to find hints and tools, for example, the post before this is about using twitter as a data source.

Work With Us

via Open by By BRIAN HAMMAN on 7/25/11

The Interactive News team has immediate openings for contract and freelance positions.

Competition: The Open Call HTML5 Challenge

Too soon for our class, but keep it in mind for next year? Also, check out the resources for html5 available through the site: https://sites.google.com/site/opencallforgdd/resources-1


Countdown to the Open Call HTML5 Challenge

Viz: How Does Google Make the Big Bucks? An Infographic Answer

Color does little here beside make slices distinct, and not very effectively (see color blindness). It'd be fun to see the long tail they discuss more literally, so we could see the rate of falloff.

Wow, $50 per click!

How Does Google Make the Big Bucks? An Infographic Answer

Data: A Better Way to Search Twitter

Hmm, if topsy has an API....

Gadgetwise: A Better Way to Search Twitter

Tool: Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting

Looks like the Goog will host coding projects using subversion, mercurial or now git. I'll gave to check it out. 

Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting

Data: And the winner of the Posterous Hack Day is...

Access to posterous blogs. 

And the winner of the Posterous Hack Day is...