information aesthetics

an alternative 3D view to read, play & interact with news from msnbc.com online. users are able to customize news channels, sort them by theme or time, browse & save specific news stories, or just gaze the news go by in auto-mode. reminds me of brynsbrain & flickr tiltviewer.

also see the recent post about inviting you to vote for the creative visualization of news by msnbc at the webbys awards.

[links: spectramsnbc.com (Spectra application) & spectra.msnbc.com (Spectra overview) & NewsWare.msnbc.com (central repository)|thnkx Sam]

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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 textual additions to the page numbers on the top of every page of the South African newspaper Cape Argus, to commemorate World AIDS day on December 1st. these subtle factual additions aimed to educate the public on statistics relating to the AIDS pandemic in South Africa. all the statistics were collected from UNICEF & the South African Department of Health.

[link: osocio.org & bestadsontv.com|thnkx thedlab|

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a beautiful & detailed infographic analysis of our actual global news situation. each 2-page spread focuses on a specific news-related theme, such as the global news distribution, media usage, most used news sources, news conglomerates & business structures, state of news censure, use of online media, plus a visual analysis of different title page layouts, as well as a direct comparison of different news headlines for the same news story.

[link: overnewsed-but-uninformed.de & slanted.de & flickr.com]

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a daily news website that accompanies each news article with an interactive network graph of the relationships between relevant people & organizations. the website also focuses on "online databases, extensive research & old-fashioned journalism". users can search, refine & filter information. solid lines convey current relationships, while dotted lines show former relationships.

[link: muckety.com]

see also:
.news visual

.Yahoo news globe

.silobreaker

.textmap

.libero news network graphs

.cnet news ontology

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an impressive business news website that uses IntellectSpace FN to show the 'story behind story' by visually mapping key relationships that shape financial & legal headlines.

in presenting an alternative method of conducting market research & analysis, NewsVisual provides a visual picture of how common connections & personal relationships come into play amidst the complexities of major corporate deals & events.

[newsvisual.com|thnkx Brian]

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an online map that visualizes news reports of the election-related human rights violations in Zimbabwe, based on data from the Zimbabwe Election Watch (ZEW) project, which set out to monitor the Zimbabwean government's compliance with the SADC Principles & Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections.

the map illustrates recent events in the context of voter registration, abduction, murder, political cleansing, unlawful detention, buying votes, political violence, restrictions of freedom of information & many other issues.

[link: sokwanele.com & cheesebikini.com|via boingboing.net]

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a new scientific mind-reading technique that is able to to accurately predict images being viewed by people, using quite advanced brain activity scanners (fMRI).

"the study raises the possibility in future of the technology being harnessed to visualize scenes from a person's dreams or memory... to reconstruct a picture of a person's visual experience from measurements of brain activity alone. imagine a general brain-reading device that could reconstruct a picture of a person's visual experience at any moment in time".

first, custom-made software analyzes a subject's visual cortex while they view 1000s of images over 5 hours, to learn how that person's brain codes visual information. then, the decoder is able to predict the brain activity it would expect if the subject is viewing a new set of images.

sounds like a great tool to research how people "visualize" abstract concepts?

[link: guardian.co.uk]

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