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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]

a visual representation of one's Twitter network, distributed over a circle, similar to ludios circular network graph,

there seem to be plenty of twitter stream visualizations out there, although only one has been blogged here before. do you know any other examples worthwhile to be included at infosthetics?

[link: tweetwheel.com]

see also:
. circular email visualization
. circos
. gnom

a novel information visualization system of online search results that represents both the similarity between documents & their relevance (ranking) relative to the search query. the color points represent the resulting documents. the closed regions surrounding the point are similarity-based clusters. the angle difference between regions are related to cluster height. the application was implemented based on GoogleAPI (now Google SOAP Search API).

[link: emislej.googlepages.com|thnx Ernesto]

a sophisticated visual aggregator that tracks the activities of about 32,000 noteworthy people, both living & dead. the dataset consists of a "Who's Who" including the curriculum vitae of each noted person (i.e. information such as date of birth, a biography, & other essential facts.)

the resulting network graphs document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious, as a person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with.

nodes can be order hierarchically, as a grid, or symmetrically, or be highlighted by age, political affiliation or sexual orientation. all graphs can be stored for others to explore, ranging from Google's board politics over Larry Page to the Enron board political contributions.

This shouldn't be funny... but it is.

This is another little Chris Ware animation to promote This American Life. The last one was amazing, this one is amazing. This American Life is amazing and so is Chris Ware. That's a lot of amazing isn't it. You should probably watch it then!

via The Ephemerist

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]

an eco-visualization concept that aims to increase the awareness of energy usage. everyday objects are used to generate energy by piezoelectronic components that generate a small amount of electricity when moved (pressed down). the applications range from a simple keyboard button press (19mW) over opening a door (0.2W/s) to sitting on a chair (412W/s)

[link: yankodesign.com|via psfk.com]

see also:
. visualizing CO2 emissions
. enerjar

This is pretty slick. The largest colour LED display in the world, powered exclusively by solar panels. Yes, it's in China. The panels harvest the daylight rays and then display 'stuff' through the night...

via infosthetics

Quite intriguing. This site belonging to an advertising company from Boston sits on top of their Wikipedia page. The Wikipedia page still functions as normal. Nice.

Just all kinds of oh my God.

This is a nice little idea from Noah Brier. You simply write a word that reminds you of the brand in question. While the brand world doesn't excite me terribly this is a beautifully simple idea carried out in a flawless manner. 10 points.

I've noticed that Noah has had some pretty good ideas over time. He's inspiring me to get my pen and pad out.

via Faris

the largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. the display comprises of 2,292 color (RGB) LED’s light points comparable to a 24,000 sq. ft. (2.200 m2) monitor screen for dynamic content display.

the polycrystalline photovoltaic cells are laminated within the glass of the curtain wall & placed with changing density on the entire building’s skin. the density pattern increases building’s performance, allowing natural light when required by interior program, while reducing heat gain & transforming excessive solar radiation into energy for the media wall.

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.

I've been working freelance for nearly a year now and I have learned a great deal and met some amazing people during that period.

In fact I think I've met more interesting people and learned more about myself in the last year than in the three years previously when I was employed full time. Obviously I wouldn't have done one without the other, so I'm not overlooking the experience gained previously, after all, it's responsible for putting me where I find myself now.

When you're freelance you get employed for one of two reasons.1) They can't do what you do - they need your skills2) They have your skills already but they're just too busy and need extra help.

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
. aah spelling frequency.

An interesting thing happened to me the other day. I was on the way back from Lancashire and our train came to a halt 10 minutes north of Euston.

Over the speaker system we heard 'Sorry ladies and gentlemen, we'll be held here for a few minutes I'm afraid, as the train in front of us is on fire'

It was said with the same turn of phrase that might have been used to announce there were leaves on the track!

So we sat there for a while, then we lost power as the power lines were disconnected to allow the firemen to work on the melting train in front of us. It was dark outside (and inside now as well) so Virgin train staff walked through the train placing glow sticks at each end of the carriages.

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.

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.

I love stuff like this.Turning some public advertising fluff into some pretty coloured squares. My kinda subversion. I am a fan of the Pixelator.

If you can't see this clip, view it here.

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.

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]

Looking forward to this one...

Profero, have some of the smartest folk in advertising I've met. They are doing tremendously well, perhaps obviously and they have always been very nice to me, despite the fact that I've technically never worked for them. They are currently celebrating being ten years old. They had a big party, they invited me. I drank, I danced, I'm sure I said dumb things to lots of people and I came back with a t-shirt.

I have no recollection of this item. If it belongs to someone please let me know.