a "first person" visualization of Twitter messages, inspired by We Feel Fine. Twitter messages are filtered by occurrences of the phrases "I love", "I hate", "I think", "I believe", "I feel" & "I wish", which are placed in a visual scrolling message ticker, similar to Digg Labs BigSpy.
[link: twistori.com/|thnkx debuche]
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an online & interactive timeline that arranges the unsorted collection of YouTube videos by date, offering a visual & useful perspective on recent events. individual videos are placed on a horizontal timeline, with more popular videos appearing larger.
[link: dipity.com|via techcrunch.com]
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a set of relational visualizations represent the relative frequencies of trigrams as they appear on the web, based on a massive (100GB) n-gram dataset from Google's corpus archive. n-grams are pieces of sentences. a trigram (n=3), for example, might be "I like food" or "frog is tasty."
the first visualization compares the 120 trigrams of the terms 'He' with 'She', while the other is based on 75 trigrams of 'I' & 'You'. the frequencies of the 2nd word in the trigrams were sorted in decreasing order. words are sized according to the square root of their use frequencies. the color-coded lines act like paths (similar to a tree structure), enumerating all of the occurring trigrams.
[link: chrisharrison.net
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please pay careful attention to this (ironic) infographic style video before entering a Diesel store.
[link: youtube.com]
another example of a spelling frequency graph, here showing the relative distribution of the different spellings for the terms "ohshit" (vs. "oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit") & "damn" (vs. "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn") based on the data reported back via the search results from Google.
[link: ohshiit.com & daaamn.com|thnkx Mart!n]
see also:
. aargh spelling frequency,
. aah spelling frequency.
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a sophisticated online collection of about 48 design patterns that describe distinct methods for the display of interactive information graphics, their active behavior as well as the forms of user interaction with them.
as part of the written thesis in Interface Design from Christian Behrens, a freelance interface designer in Berlin, the website aims to inform graphic designers who need to deal with complex tasks in the field of information design, but do not have any specific knowledge in statistics or data visualization. it is intended as an online "cookbook" that offers a set of tools & methods to cope with all common forms of data visualization, similar to design patterns in computer science, such as the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.
each pattern consists of a text part that describes the general characteristics of the pattern, its required or appropriate data source, its generic application, & a discussion of the pattern's usage rationale. besides a real-world example, each pattern is accompanied by a layout that is based on an identical dataset, here the statistical yearbook of the City of Berlin.
Chris informed me there is the possibility to publish the thesis as a book. any interest from infosthetics readers?
[link: niceone.org|thnkx angus & Christian]
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an interactive infographic treemap representing how much the average American citizen spends on 84,000 products in about 200 categories, including fast food, car insurance, rent, electricity, garbage collection & so on. larger shapes make up a larger part of spending. individual shapes can be selected & the treemap can be zoomed in & out.
the combination of the organic looking treemap shapes & the encompassing circular form reminds me of the voronoi treemap & circular treemap algorithms respectively.
[link: nytimes.com]
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a set of "semi-abstract" circular visualizations of the WiFi encryption levels while traveling through the cities of London, Vescemont, Belfort & Barcelona. each circular item represent the recording of wireless network through a journey. each succesfull recording influences the time line thickness & adds a “pin”. red pins represent non-encrypted networks other networks are the smaller black ones. the thickness of the main line & the length of the "node pins" depends on the ecryption from thinner to thicker: "WEP" , "WPA", "TKIP" & "NONE".
[link: yesyesnono.co.uk & flickr.com]
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