information aesthetics.
"" [bits.blogs.nytimes.com] includes two videos (also shown below) that show the traffic to on June 25, 2009, the day . While on video focuses on US-only traffic, the other has a worldwide view. The animated maps also include a subtle visual hint of night time by revealing the city illumination at night.The 24-hour period of web log data is compressed into a little over a minute and a half.
The data used to create these maps come from roughly 15 Web servers. Some of the mobile bursts on the maps are a result of compressing the data.
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They're pretty, but they really suffer from the fact that I can't remember what they looked like a second ago so I'm missing out on context. A little bar charty histogram going across the bottom is the first thing I would try. Maybe for the global one you could have a histogram per continent.
I agree with Andrew, I kept trying to figure out where the sun was rising and setting to get an idea of the human behavior. Are people waking up and checking the NYTimes? Before bed, middle of day? I think it would be cool to have a sliding line indicating the sun's location. Otherwise, to gain context I kept looking at the time stamp, which caused me to lose context.
Well, you have an artificial slider in the video scroll bar. That works too :)
need to get some sick beats to go along with this. earth rhythm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUaCFWFBls
Hi, what software was used to make this visualization? I sit available?
HI Jiri - we used Processing to create the NYTimes visualization. Python/Hadoop is used to crunch and condense the data and we wrote the visualization app in Processing. We're hoping to put the code out there for others to use...hopefully soon.
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