Thought this video from the vast repository that there is on TED was well worth a post.
'What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more data than a cellular tower -- and do it in a way that's more efficient, secure and widespread.'
http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb.html
Light Speed
The Visual Dictionary
this looks like an excellent project that I am probably blogging that was
blogged a while ago but, well worth another blog post dedicating to it.
blogged a while ago but, well worth another blog post dedicating to it.
the only rule to the tvd, only a single word must be visible, cannot have
more than one distinguishable word.
free to sign up and a great inspiration on typography and it has an A to Z to
navigate the words.
http://thevisualdictionary.net/recent/
unrelated but useful: http://www.slatebox.com/Home/HowItWorks
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.
Student Travel History
this was a data driven interface for the historical activities of the spanish
national scientific institution La Junta para Amplicaion de Estudios.
from 1909 - 1939 it tracks the studnets migration and its academic documents.
found here: http://www.bestiario.org/, this site had some excellant data visualisations.
What goes around comes around
great, awesome, anti war ads. sorry for short post, just had to expand the viewing of these, even if they might have already been around for a while. great design, visual thinking blog below where found.
from: http://kendalricher.com/blog/?p=241
via: http://theinspirationroom.com/
Data Mapping
SpatialKey is a next generation Information Visualization, Mapping, Analysis and Reporting System. It is designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals, decision making processes and reporting requirements.
It looks really good, and I think you can upload your own csv data and have it visualised.
Think it was either Data Mining, or Visual Analytics on LinkedIn that i spotted the link.
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:
Cartographic Shapes
this is a great application for facebookm, called Geo Challenge. helps you learn your countries/geography starting off with just the shape and fading in the ajoining/nearby countries to help you realise the paticularly country. they have a round for flags, and cities (usually guessing myself) placing where they are on the world map.
great game and great tool for learning. it helps me with my pathetic knowledge of world geography/cities, although i'm not that bad at flags.
also look at this noisy britain - ben terret excellant post by strange maps.
World Wireless Map
With the innovation and development of internet 3g enabled mobile phones technology with the fantastic Iphone from apple, it is important that other technology's are there to support it.
When reasearching about internet speeds I learnt more about wireless internet speeds. In the uk I had heard of 3G but I never realised that this represented wireless internet.
Well when i realised that there had been 2G sm (global systems for mobile communication) with a data transfer of 14.4 kbps (kilo bits per sec), worse that dial-up 56 k bps modem, not kilo bytes per sec, read this page for lyberty.com/encyc/articles/kb_kilobytes.html better understanding of data transfer & file size, I soon learnt more.
3G has a data transfer rate of 2 mbps (mega bits per sec), now as I found it a trall trying to find the transfer rates for 2G & 3G I read that not everywhere, especially in america, has 3G wireless access/coverage. Making your Iphone 3G enabled connection pretty slow.
This made me curious as to the possibility of a world map that shows where and what wireless internet connection speeds are available, as there different networks such as 2.5G PRS (32 kbps), HSCSD (57.6 kbps), EDGE (384 kbps) and... there is.
The GSM Association and coveragemaps.com are proud to announce the availability of the updated GSM World Coverage map for 2008. This publication is available in printed form at all GSM Association events and can also be downloaded in PDF using the links below. Unfortunately we are unable to post copies of the map. This maps is updated from time-to-time and new versions can be identified by a change in the colour used for coverage.
Europe has quite a good coverage of 3G connection speeds for your Iphone (depicted in yellow).
Other maps:
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Find out whether your area has 3G coverage before you invest in an Iphone.
found/from here: http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter_world.htm
Joy, Love, War, Peace
I literally love this visualisation by peter crnokrak, not only is it a great
record to do a visualisation about it gives you so much data too about the
record.
It lists its influences on other tracks, releases correlating in the centre
of the popular circular timeline visualisation method.
He has done another that he describes as the 'computational aesthetic of love & hate'
Using the 192 members of the united nations, he creates a geopolitical display of the quantative degree to which eacj contributes to war (on one side) & peace (the other).
Due the their size they could benefit from this little tool. zoomorama. make your pictures zoomable
see more close-ups here: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/LWTUA1.html
and: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/A_B_.html
from here: http://www.aisleone.net/2008/intervista/intervista-peter-crnokrak/
found here: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/qGNuYIP8J1s/