10 posts tagged “information”
If it's January, it must be time for the Feltron annual report.
I love these so much; this is the third year I've seen this and I'm very grateful that Nicholas Feltron takes the time to produce them. Which means I get to find out that in 2008 he had three subway mishaps, one Michael J Fox sighting, one fig, mint and tequila cocktail, and read all or part of fourteen books.
(via information aesthetics)
New tool Wordle delivers exactly what it promises - beautiful word clouds. Use text, a URL or a del.icio.us user name to create a cloud. This is my del.icio.us tag cloud:
(via information aesthetics)
Following on from their Innovation Timeline, What’s Next and Future Exploration Network have created an Extinction Timeline:
Get ready to say goodbye to Mending Things, Retirement, Keys, Oil, Peace and Quiet, Ugliness, Blogging, and... Death.
Over at Wellington Grey... a Periodic Table of the Internet. Go on, wander over and have a look. Full of good stuff, and if you don't like the aformentioned periodic table, then you might like this:
(via Londonist)
Following hot on the heels of the wonderful 2007 trend map, Trends in the Living Networks and Nowandnext.com present an Innovation Timeline, running from 1900 to 2050.
"It represents visually (and as usual somewhat tongue in cheek) the development of innovation from 1900, starting with the tape recorder, safety razor, tabloid newspaper, aeroplane and cornflakes, and flowing up to 2050, before when we may see such fun, delightful, and useful things as baby exchanges, compulsory biometric ID, sleep surrogates, VR enhancing drugs, face recognition doors, robotic pest control, prison countries, 3D fax, gravity tube, self-repairing roads, reputation trading, individual pollution credits, digital mirrors, stress control clothing, and far, far more."
Delays on the Circle and District lines? You might want to try using your feet instead...
Great project from a group of St. Martin's Design Studies postgrads, illustrating how short the walking distances between Zone 1 Tube stations are.
Brilliant personal annual report (link via Information Aesthetics). If I was a really talented designer I think I'd have a crack at this as well (If I knew how many plants I'd killed, books I'd read or beers I'd enjoyed in any one year, that is).
Thanks to this post Ross Dawson's blog, I found my way to Many Eyes, an experimental site which allows you to upload data sets and create different visual representations of the data. Doesn't sound that exciting? Go and check it out, especially the galleries.
I think this fantastic trend map is one of the best things I've seen crop up in my bloglines account for a very long time. I don't know if I like it more because it sums up so beautifully all the different trends going on at the moment, because it's so aesthetically pleasing, or because it's done under a creative commons license and they invite you to contribute your own version...
Just fantastic. I particularly liked the stations Constant partial attention and Search for meaning (Mon-Fri only).
You may not have known that you needed a periodic table of visualisation methods, but you do. Well I do, it makes my geekish little heart very happy.
Essentially it categorises, and shows examples of, a gazillion different types of charts, diagrams and information visualisation methods. And if you stare at it for too long it makes your eyes go funny.
This cropped up a couple of times in blogs I love, via this great Information Aesthetics blog, and the ever-wonderful Gothamist.
