Data Visualization Search Engine
Take it for a spin and if possible contribute relevant links and resources.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Data Visualization Search Engine
I have created a custom search engine for data visualization related information.dsfsdfa
Data Visualization Search Engine
Take it for a spin and if possible contribute relevant links and resources.
Data Visualization Search Engine
Take it for a spin and if possible contribute relevant links and resources.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Google snaps Trendalyzer
I have been waiting for this kind of thing for years now, but this is certainly not the end.
Here's the official announcement. Google is slowly moving towards really making sense of all the informaion available on the internet. I'd like to see a change in the home page itself where the page results are shown in the context of the data. Its already happening in bits ( e.g. typing in an address shows a google map ) but you still get a standard list of links for most queries. I guess we are quite a ways from a google as a dynamic visualization tool making sense of all this data, but its one step closer.
Here's the official announcement. Google is slowly moving towards really making sense of all the informaion available on the internet. I'd like to see a change in the home page itself where the page results are shown in the context of the data. Its already happening in bits ( e.g. typing in an address shows a google map ) but you still get a standard list of links for most queries. I guess we are quite a ways from a google as a dynamic visualization tool making sense of all this data, but its one step closer.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Inside Google Book Search: Earth viewed from books
Inside Google Book Search: Earth viewed from books
Very ingenious use of data.
Very ingenious use of data.
The Earth viewed from books, where individual mentions of locations in books combine to yield another interpretation of the globe. The intensity of each pixel is proportional to the number of times the location at a given set of coordinates is mentioned across all of the books in Google Books Search.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Java job posting per state graph
I just started using Swivel and here's my first graph:
The data is from dice.com.
The data is from dice.com.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Running the Numbers
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics tend to feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or $12.5 million spent every hour on the Iraq war. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.
An American Self-Portrait
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics tend to feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or $12.5 million spent every hour on the Iraq war. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.
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