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
remap - visual complexity data mine by bestario
Excellent interactive way to browse through the projects with bestario's semantic search engine. . tags can be clicked at the bottom to present a new visual array very quickly . http://bestiario.org/research/remap/ . . remap - visual complexity data mine by bestario Originally uploaded by visual think map . mining: http://visualcomplexity.com .
Photo Manipulations By Erik Johansson
Wonderful manipulations in photoshop, go through the slides. It does challenge me to think, 'ok so he cut that out, masked over this, layered....' but very tidly done and wonderful to see. Below is one i had seen =, maybe by erik, who knows, but looked good. Face punched, face sucked.
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
Periodic Table of Controllers
by member mike. check out the other periodic's here Periodic table of Typefaces.
There's been a recent flurry of discoveries, it can be subverted into so many forms. I quite like this Console controllers, makes me nostalgic to SNES. Check this post too, Nintendo Map.
Great to visualise the marks on a pad without the shape and just the buttons. Spotted on vi.sualise.us great sort of clipmark, image bookmarking tool. great way to compile inspiration. Saves searching through links, or places you discovered work.
Colour Scheme Harmoniser
Amazon Books Map
Amaznode (http://amaznode.fladdict.net/)
is a relation based search engine for amazon which is made with adobe flash9 (as3). This search engine visualizes a relation network of products in amazon, from the statistics data "customers who bought this item also bought", by digging related products again and again. Amaznode is not
only for searching but also good for researching and making an associate link.
Fantastic how it mines the associational network of products 'also purchased by...'
good display for hover over with its interactivity. love it.
integratable to your own amazon associates id. score
and not just books, or info vis... any product. the best amazon widget.
Affiliate with amaznode
Amaznode enables you to make a direct link to paticular saerch query, and you can also add your own amazon associate link.
In the search result view, click the "COPY RESULT LINK" button at the top left menu. It copies a handy html to your clipboard.
a href="http://amaznode.fladdict.net/#keywords=information%20design&locale=uk&searchIndex=" target="_blank" affiliate="AFFILIATEID-22">Search with amaznode: information design /a>
You can easly make a link to amaznode search result by adding this code to your blog or email.
Also if you have amazon associate id, and you replace the part "affiliate=" to your own id, all products in this query works as your associate product link.
Market analysis with amaznode
An another aspect of amaznode is that for researching tool. Searching with amaznode, you can find hidden characteristics of products. For example, some kind of products may be bought by a limited user group even it is very very popular.
Made by Takayuki Fukatsu (fladdict.net / blog)
see previous post: Green Search Engine
Black Box
Think it is the black box that kept details of the flight maps. Well here are a few excellant visual exanples of flight mapping.
The first is great, although when you click on the tab flight maps, and then select a country for flights too, it does just assume that the flight originates from the uk. hence uk - paris. dont know if you're able to change the origin of the flight. but look nice and clean visualisations and so highly informative.
from here: http://www.flightmapping.com/maps/files/europe/FRANCE.asp
found here: webuser magazine - issue 197 p69 25th september in their forum form BedstrofromAP
The study for Amsterdam Schiphol Airport was driven by the presumption that the
airport itself would be relocated off-shore, and subsequently required an investigation into the implications that this could have on the Netherlands.
Not as clean and clear as the first but equally creative and informative.
Subway Blogs Map
Names Authors
An excellant visualisation taking another fantastic subway (hary beck) subversion visualisation similiar to the web-trend-map-2008-beta by the information architects, except instead of mapping mapping the internet terrain, mapping claude ashcenbrenner's (at serial mapper) blogs/RSS links archive.
He cleverly structures the content of his blogs using the paris subway map layout of lines by renaming them as:
Visualisation
Teaching
Thinkers
Business Intelligence
Missing In Action
Mind Mapping
Network
Creativity
& Humour
To arrange all these blogs into an easy to follow, complex/diverse/similarities content ordered, clean spatial structure is a real achievement. It has this easy to the eye pink background and beige centre that allows the Blue and Green names easy to focus on and follow along the lines. But if it isnt enough of an achivement to arrnage these complex/diverse blogs in a great connectivist structure, he still added further depth by simply subtly differentiating between French & English blogs without having to compomise his overall layout much at all merely a small key to say:
green - english
blue - french
Making it bilingual to help when navigating.
He was exporting this to pdf so that it is a fully interactive hyperlinks attached to the blog name nodes concept map. make in more engaging yet further.
He breaks it into 2 output version of the authors and one for the names, both using the same spatial location along his different lines so as to easily correlate the authors with their blogs.
I love it as you can probably guess.
Here are cluade's comments (forgive translation, may not be absolutely correct)
'You've probably noticed this blog is somewhat artistic. Indeed unlike the practice you can not find the list of my favorite blogs.In fact I think for a long time, but procrastination also achieved all that we must say that I was not sure how to keep all my RSS feeds in a reasonable space ..
I finally found the solution obviously in the form of a map. You will therefore find below a selection of 70 blogs devoted to mapping information encapsulated in a subway map.
Parisians (and others - °) recognize a part of the metropolitan network to which were added some tram lines. This plan is bilingual French / English including heads of line that I let you discover ... The francophone (in Blue) is represented by nearly 40 blogs, many of which have emerged in the last year ..
This device is designed to encourage you to leave your usual lines by taking paths through it.
Ca n'al'air nothing but a path we must remember that the term method has been built from a Greek word meaning old way .... So Good cognitive walk!
Each blog is associated a subway station. Place your mouse URL appears, click will open a new window to view the blog.'
Love his concept of 'leaving usual lines by taking paths through it', much like my work with the recent http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/2008/09/notebook-route-map.html. Could be called Blog Route Visualisation, but Blog Subway Map infer's that quite effectively.
Aa soon as I spot I know a link to Claude's interactive version, trust i will repost this. Great aid to exploring blogs of similiar content/interests/terrain that can be used in an instant, just how you more often then not want a visualisation's performance (function) to do.
Fantastic claude
Enjoy the journey
from here: http://www.serialmapper.com/archive/2008/09/25/mise-en-seine-de-blogs.html
search the web for the titles/authors of blogs, will no doubt bring up the right one as we await pdf concept map
Literature Map
Wonderful little map of relating authors to their similarities, genre. It is similar to music plasma map by Frederic Vavrille previously posted with how it connects musical artists together and actors likewise in a real time animated arrangment steming from the centre of who you searched.
I like tom sharpe and it is no surprise that terry pratchett, p g woodhouse & fear and loathing by hunter s thompson feature in my map.
The graphics/visual leave little to be desired, a bleak blue could have been contrasted with sharp black for the white lettering and maybe a more elegant but still easy to read french script font with a touch of embellishing with it or somewhere in the map display, edges/border. Could heed some advice from observing the subtle style of music plasma.
Anyhow it is a great website tool by marek gibney, literature-map.com produces these great text visual maps of different authors that you might be intersted in to enjoy as I can possibly more comedic pleasure through similarities to one you input.
The literature-map is a part of gnooks, gnooks is apart of gnod, gnod is a project of marek gibney
Similar to music map http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A67&context=album&albumId=2168552%3AAlbum%3A165
Brilliant, give it a go
Found here: http://actpubliclibrary.blogspot.com/2008/07/literature-map-exploration.html