visualisation
Another Twitter visualisation
Feb 3rd
I promise I’ll stop posting links to these one day. Anyway, this is from a series of Superbowl-related interactive visualisations produced by the New York Times: Unlike the visualisation of #inauguration posts I linked to recently, this isn’t based on hash tags but instead uses moving tag clouds to illustrate the volume of Twitter posts [...]
Presidential inauguration – Twitter visualisation
Jan 23rd
This animated map from FlowingData shows the global location of each Twitter post tagged as #inauguration between Monday and Wednesday this week. Although the world map isn’t shown, over time the US and the UK become almost perfectly defined by the density of Twitter post markers. You can also see outlines of south America and [...]
Infographics at work
Nov 26th
Last night I watched IOUSA on the BBC iPlayer (unfortunately this was over cable TV – I can’t find it on the web iPlayer). It’s a film made by the former US Comptroller General, David Walker, which attempts to convince the viewer of the seriousness of America’s national debt problem. …and it worked on me. [...]
The 2008 US box office visualised
Aug 29th
A nice week-by-week visualisation of the US box office takings throughout 2008. It gives you a good sense of how quickly many films drop off the radar, and also of the size of the gap between successful movies and (comparative) flops. As you scroll along to the right, for example, you’ll find yourself thinking that [...]
Pubs, epidemiology and geo-mashups
Jul 23rd
I recommend reading this blog post from Jeffrey Veen, author of “The Art & Science of Web Design”. You may be familiar with Dr John Snow as the man who successfully traced the source of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak. A pub on Broadwick Street in Soho is named after him, and the water-pump that started [...]
