information aesthetics

for those who are wondering the lacks of updates recently, this little news flash.

on Monday, the infosthetics website was suddenly turned offline by my Web Host due to a too high CPU load. several services were already crippled inexplicably in the weeks before (e.g. suggestion box, sparklines graphs). less than 12 hours later, infosthetics' MB laptop hard disk died beyond repair, so that several weeks of work are completely lost. both occurrences brought this blog to a sudden meltdown.

please be patient...

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infosthetics is away on a long, hopefully well-deserved, holiday. posting will be dramatically less for about 1 month.

please keep sending any tips via the suggestion box (located in the 2nd column). a secret editor might still post it!

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I am happy to announce that Fernanda Viégas, one of the creators of Many Eyes, & well known from information aesthetic data visualizations such as History Flow & Themail, has agreed to blog the premier conference on information visualization, Infovis'07.

organized since 2005 & in particular appealing to an academic audience, the internationally renowned conference presents the latest research in information visualization from around the world.

in the next few days, Fernanda will highlight the most interesting projects for the information aesthetics audience!

[links: computer.org (conference program)]

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this blog is now 2 years old & 865 entries wide. time to thank you, my dear reader, for your continuous loyalty. please keep suggesting intriguing data-driven works!

last year I asked whether there was still enough material to post about. now I wonder what most 'infosthetic' works have in common: is it the attention to superficial decoration, a creative design approach to visualization, the desire to merge beauty & functionality, or a general lack of effective information communication?

[link: aap.org & about.com]

continue reading "2 years infosthetics" »

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an online visualization of a user-chosen website through a graphical DNA-like data mapping approach. the brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure, so that a semantically rich site will appear brighter than one with messy old-style code. a site that focuses on (text) content is one where the DNA patterns are large (filling many containers), but contains a lot of empty spaces between the lines (empty space is the individual words).
see also websites as graphs & dna personality test & dna 11 & protein profiler & dna space.
[baekdal.com]

continue reading "web 2 dna" »

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a series of data visualizations that analyze the incoming links to the posts on the blog Boing Boing for 2005, parsed via Technorati. different radial treemap shows the topic hierarchy colored by the average number of incoming links/post, topic hierarchy, posts over time by author, day of the week analysis, images/post by author, outbound links & acronym use.
[neoformix.com & neoformix.com & neoformix.com]

continue reading "boing boing data analysis" »

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a simple & beautiful online visualization showing the incoming posts & comments on the digg.com portal in real time.
in "stack", submitted stories are represented as sepearate bar graphs. individual "digg" votes fall from above & stack up active stories.
in "swarm", digg authors swarm around & make stories grow. color denotes the amount of diggs.
see also website aggregator & digg data visualization.
[|thnkx Christo]

continue reading "digg labs stack visualization" »

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a web blog in which the author literally & metaphorically bares his heart. the artist-blogger wears a GPS-enabled Heart-rate monitor throughout parts of the day, then blogs the data along with matching personal experiences, events, & musings. for 3 weeks, the site will blog a series of posts contextualizing heart-rate visualizations, GPS-maps, & personal journal entries. online users are given a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, location tracking, & the private thoughts of the blogger.
[turbulence.org]

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