I remember seeing this great use of a nightingale rose a while ago to represent the privacy levels of facebook. Was a good way of showing the privacy without lots of text.
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
Well like any good visualisation matt mckeon updates his visualisation as like the data changes and updates and what results is, he has produce (at the link) a lovely animated timeline of the Evolution of Facebook Privacy from 2005 to 2010.
If any visualisation translates drab data complexity in to such beautiful, simple graphics that through the animation yield such dramatic insights into how 'default' settings of how your personal data has become greater in its availability over 5 years is great.
Note: Matt has asked for explicit permission before his images are used on sites as many people have neglected to either source the most up-to-date visual he created, or negate referencing him as the author. So please visit it!
Facebook Rose
My Fry
I love this app from Stefanie Posavec and Dare Digital. She is to be featured in Visualisation Magazine Vol 4 Handmade with her equally beautiful Literary Organisms work.
These projects are great as they examine the accessibility of information and try to make complex narratives of words easier to read by opening up the multi-linear reading of data, see blu-comic or typographic nuance. Giving it a new pattern which is just as brilliant achieved in this app, what apps i think should be made for: easier to access information, but also she & dare digital bring with it beauty in form too.
From Stefanie's site:
'MyFry is the iPhone app edition of The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry's latest autobiography.
This project was initiated by Jeremy Ettinghausen at Penguin. I designed the 'visual index' graphics, and Dare Digital made it interactive and created everything else (ie the most important parts).
This iPhone app functions as a 'visual index' of key theme tags within the book, all of which have been divided into 4 major groups: People, Subjects, Emotions, and 'Fryisms'.
The entirety of the book is represented by a circular wheel of 'spines', each of which represents a section of text. The arcs around the outside of the wheel connect sections that are tagged with the same theme.
Through interacting with the scroll wheel, the user can explore the text and read sections in chronological order, by theme, or in any order he or she chooses. As Stephen Fry's autobiography was written in a style that was suited to splitting the text into separate moments in Fry's life, the visual index offers the reader a different way of engaging with this book.' itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/new/myfry-iphone-app/
Really would love websites to take on this persona, of multi linear reading, interactive, where information is represented as a node, see concept
map.
MyFry in the iTunes store
Video: Stephen Fry explaining how the app works
Stephen Fry's website Dare Digital
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EuroVisualisation
I saw this on InfoAesthetics.com , always brilliant. I need key with this, something telling me the douze points or zwolf points of which colours rather than just size so i can discern the order.
See a video here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/eurovisualisation-1 (the embed kept crashing explorer)
From blob.creanode.com/blob/eu2009 is a simple interactive visualization. Each country is represented by a circle. Moving over a specific country reveals who voted for that country and by how much.
Another Eurosong Contest Visualization and another EuroVision Contest Visualization (see 3rd example) @ InfoAesthetics.com
See tashian.com/wine-flavors/ (had a facelift with some category labels added).World at Work
Schaik of restruct org
Z33 - Hasselt - 27 June till 25 September 2009
The project “World At Work” will be presented for the first time as physical machine in real space at the exhibition "Work Now" at the art center Z33 in Hasselt (Belgium).
The 2008/2009 Impakt Online Exhibition shows World at Work
The project the "World at Work" rediscovers the earth as ‘Time Machine’. Its rotation around
its own axis gives us our days and its course around the sun determines our earthly year. To achieve a higher degree of accuracy in organizing their life, humans divided one day in 24 hours and a year in 12 months. The acceleration of transport and information on a global scale, the introduction of time-zones became necessary at the end of the 19th century.
With "World at Work" we project the amount of inhabitants per time-zone onto the earth as ‘Time Machine’. By assuming that the average working day around the world is from 9.00am to 5.00 pm, we come to the conclusion that there is a strong imbalance in the distribution of workforce. One can almost talk about a day and night on earth.
The world as ‘Time Machine’ is visualized by its course around the sun (together with its three neighbour planets) and its spinning around its own axis. On top of its self-rotation a graph with the amount of inhabitants is projected. The third element of the visualisation is the addition of all the working population of one global working day and shows how many people are
working, relaxing or sleeping.
This visualisation is shown either in real time, or can be released and speeded up at the users will. All three parts of the visualisation are interconnected as programmed clockwork that shows time by mimicking reality.
Client: Impakt Online
Design Team: Theo Deutinger, Romuald Dehio, Stefan Prins
Programming: Michael van Schaik/restruct.org
credits to: Romuald Dehio, Stefan Prins and Michael van Schaik - restruct.org
with special thanks to: Michael Impakt Online & Sabine Niederer , Erling Haverkamp -
Imatech and Ronald van der Groef - Overwijn TS
UNSCR
'UNSC/R: this is the abbreviation for the United Nations Security Council
Resolutions.
These documents represent the decisions of the UN’s executive body. This
massiveamount of data (more than 1700 documents) doesn’t come in any organized form.
The purpose of this project is to apply information design strategies to create
visual maps of the Resolutions to help students in politics approach the subject of the
UN.
For more information about this project please visit my blog.'
This is is an interesting project and useful, need to knwo more info as to
how the circles help index, communicate, structure the info.
from here: http://www.pierozagami.com/index.php?/test-1/unscr/
many more shots of this visual there.
Mapping Genes
love the size ratio and soft pastels colours.
Global Internet Map
They've made another. love the circles. and connecting lines.
TeleGeography‘s new Global Internet Map draws upon our annual Global Internet Geography research to provide a unique view of the international Internet networks that link the globe.
The map‘s global projection traces the intercontinental links between the countries of Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, and Africa. Regional close-ups provide insight into key routes within each region. Nine accompanying figures and tables present valuable data on Internet bandwidth by country, regional and global Internet capacity growth, backbone providers, traffic by application, wholesale pricing, and broadband user growth.
The Big Picture
The global projection depicts intercontinental Internet links between the countries of Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, and Africa. higher res (larger) here:
1280x800
1440x900
Their links lines are similiar to those in key magazine cover by John Maeda & world flow.
Find out more: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/global-internet-map
Their previous internet visuals:
Other internet visualisations:
Web Trend Map 2008 Beta - Information Architects
Domain Name Map - Hugh Dubberly
Also check out:
Circular Visuals
Great visual by pedro, extremely current and very useful to see just at a glance the sheer increase over time just by their size. the red stands out very well with a minimal black and white structure similar to Once More Around the Sun, with little bits of information giving reasons as to the increase. ceheck out his others here: eco footprints (isometric similar technique to 3D
CV Map), elections (robert kosara/eager eyes contest, very nice technique/idea), 700billion
& more.
What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? This visualization attempts to show the strength of these relationships. I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine. Written by Carl Tashian for Visualizing the Five Senses, a class at http://itp.nyu.edu.
Really great interactive visual, minimal. more here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/wine-flavour-wheel-by-carl
great post from info aesthetics by andrew v moere
girl talk is the DJ name for gregg gillis and is great visual using colour to distinguish the different songs and layers of tracks that he mixes up along a neat circular timeline covering his slot. think there are sites that let you cut up tracks, will me check... www.splicemusic.com and there is the BBC music cubes, lets you build up your favourite tracks but not splice i think.
anyhow great visual with the artists faces jumping off for a bit of ease of
recognition.
think i saw it posted by randy k/coolinfographics.blogspot (sorry would post
hyperlink but need to dash to shop)
Also check out these (some previously posted)
love will tear us apart type by peter crnokrak / A_B_peace & terror by peter crnokrak posted here: Joy, Love, War, Peace
the great sky scraper visual: Bank Space Sky Onion Visualisations
Map of Carnaby Street, Adobe CS3 Icons Visual Map, Watch the Evolution Design, DynamicTime Visualisation & Once More Around the Sun by bradford paley.
enjoy