September 13, 2006
The Art of Spreadsheets
Danielle Aubert, a Detroit-based graphic designer looks inside the box for inspiration, turning Microsoft Excel spreadsheet columns into brilliant canvases. By tweaking cell colors, fill patterns, and border styles, Danielle was able to create psychedelic designs. 70 of those designs will be available in her latest book called A Year’s Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel.
Posted by richard ting at September 13, 2006, 03:56 AM
February 25, 2006
The Dumpster
The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another. The project's graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.
The Dumpster was created by Golan Levin, Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg and made possible by support from the Whitney Artport, the Tate Online, and Intelliseek. Version 1.0 of the Dumpster was built in Processing and launched on Valentine's day, 2006.
Posted by richard ting at February 25, 2006, 09:34 PM
February 23, 2006
Maya 2 Google Earth
Maya2GoogleEarth is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed at Eyebeam for exporting 3D models from Maya into Google Earth. Once installed, it allows you to export 3D models from within your scene as a single Google Earth Placemark (KML) file.
The project was inspired by the Open GL extraction utility OGLE which can extract 3D data from openGL programs like Google Earth.
Posted by richard ting at February 23, 2006, 05:47 PM
December 23, 2005
COVERPOP visual interface
Here's another data visualization project that layers images on top of the Amazon.com inventory. Reminds me a bit of the amaztype.jp site that was done by Yugop Nakamura.
Posted by richard ting at December 23, 2005, 01:21 AM
October 26, 2005
Visual Complexity
[thanks to Joseph Cartman for the link.]
The brainchild of R/GA interaction designer, Manuel Lima. VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.
Posted by richard ting at October 26, 2005, 08:12 PM
October 22, 2005
Vector Overlays for Google Maps
VGMap is a new library created by Eyebeam R&D that allows designers, developers, and mapping geeks to overlay data on top of Google Maps in a richer way than is possible using their standard system. It is called VGMap because it adds vector-drawing capability to the already-awesome GMap API.
The Google Maps API enables point and line data on their maps in the form of markers, and polylines. This has yielded a lot of great applications, such as Housing Maps and the GMaps Pedometer (see more at Google Maps Mania). What it does not allow for is vector graphics, which precludes the use of Google Maps for more sophisticated GIS applications. Flash provides for vector drawing, as well as a well-worn interactive and animation functionality. This VGMap library is simply the glue between GMap and Flash, as well as a handful of Flash ActionScript libraries and sample code to simplify the process of drawing over the map correctly.
Posted by richard ting at October 22, 2005, 01:56 PM
October 11, 2005
Liveplasma on C|NET.com
So it looks like liveplasma is no longer just focused on music and movies. I noticed the other day on C|NET.com a mini-version of liveplasma, but applied to the news story that I was reading. It was a nice way to show related topics and stories in a compelling visual format. Very nice bonus for all the data-viz heads out there.
Check out liveplasma on C|NET.com.
Posted by richard ting at October 11, 2005, 02:45 PM
August 23, 2005
Flickr Postcard Browser
Here's a great Flickr search interface created by Felix Turner over at airtightinteractive. It's a simple search, then zoom in and zoom out interface. The experience is fairly smooth and clean. Give it a try. There are some really interesting search results that the tool spits back to the user. Hopefully in the future, Felix will add some type of 'user searching' similar to the Marumushi Flickrgraph service.
Check out Flickr Postcard Browser.
Check out Marumushi's Flickrgaph.
Posted by richard ting at August 23, 2005, 11:09 AM
July 13, 2005
Information Aesthetics
Here's a link to a blog that tracks 'creative' information visualization.
Posted by richard ting at July 13, 2005, 01:27 PM
April 25, 2005
Searchscapes || Manhattan
Each person constructs his/her image of the city. This image is made out of facts, memories, experiences, stories, news - mostly invisible data, and not only of architecture, buildings and streets. "SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN" is an attempt to create a tridimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web. The objective is to compare the city's "physical spaces" and "information spaces" (search results). This is an attempt to materialize information: to give it dimension and physicality.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at April 25, 2005, 06:40 PM
March 07, 2005
Liveplasma lives
Data visualization is hot these days with the recent launches of FlickrMaps and Flirckgraph. That trend seems to be continuing with the recent launch of Liveplasma, a site formerly known as musicplasma. Hollywood meets musicplasma is the concept. A discovery engine to search for your favorite music AND movies.
Posted by richard ting at March 07, 2005, 11:12 AM
February 11, 2005
Flickrgraph
First came Flickrmappr, now comes Flickrgraph. Created by the same people who brought us Google Newsmap and Social Circles, Flickrgraph is an application that visualizes the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs.
Posted by richard ting at February 11, 2005, 11:39 AM
January 24, 2005
Escape Lab Travel Album
This is one of my favorite travel photo albums out there. The interface is easy to use as users can flip between 3D mode, 2D mode, and a plain flat interface. While the site at first seemed to be another overly complex data visualization project, it actually turned out to be a nice, simple, and clean interface. Interesting photos as well.
Posted by richard ting at January 24, 2005, 10:23 AM
January 18, 2005
Location-based Flickr - Mappr!
They guys from Stamen Design have created Mappr! which is a location-based Flickr!. Mappr! pulls photos from flickr.com and maps them onto a map. All mapping is somewhat approximate as the Stamen folks are using the metadata from each photo to make educated guesses about the location of where each photo was taken. The project is still in beta phase and a bit clunky, but its a cool idea nonetheless.
Posted by richard ting at January 18, 2005, 12:57 PM
January 17, 2005
Interesting 3D Tool
Here's a nice tool called the SketchUp to quickly and easily translate your ideas into 3D images. If you're interested in visual sketching, or if you're just curious about 3D modeling tools, then check them out.
Posted by richard ting at January 17, 2005, 11:11 AM
January 14, 2005
Toshiba Japan Music Map
An extremely well designed site created by Toshiba that highlights the FM Festival '04 in Japan. The Japan Music Map utilizes some nice interaction design to quickly display information and lots of information in a visually pleasing way.
Posted by richard ting at January 14, 2005, 11:53 AM
November 05, 2004
US elections map
Awesome US elections map created by the BBC that traces back the breakdown of electoral votes in Presidential elections dating back to 1948.
Posted by richard ting at November 05, 2004, 05:56 PM
November 09, 2003
Mapping Google
This site is about how Google associates how websites are related to each other.
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Posted by richard ting at November 09, 2003, 11:16 PM
August 25, 2003
Urban Mapping
A map of Manhattan that employs proprietary technology to represent multi-layered spatial data on a printed page. Depending on the angle you view the map, it displays streets, subways, or neighborhoods and landmarks.
