Posts tagged visualization
Ben Goldacre reminds us that the primary goal of data visualization is to effectively communicate a message. Being a pretty poster is a nice-to-have.
Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to ZEIT ONLINE. We combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as Twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet. By pushing the play button, you will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz’s life.
A German politician becomes his own Big Brother to demonstrate the importance of data piracy. (Via Flowing Data)
My LinkedIn network, visualized.
For those of you using LinkedIn, is is pretty cool. And it’s not lazy either: the groups are pretty cleanly generated.
Harry Kao’s Commute Map visualizer is fascinating. Check it out.
Time waster of the day: whatdoyousuggest.net. Google search suggestions visualized. Above: chicken.
(It’s a little disheartening how often Rachel Ray makes an appearance here…)
Traffic to the NYTimes.com on the day Michael Jackson died:
Just watching these maps glow can be a mesmerizing experience, but there’s another fascinating piece of data within this particular day. At about 1 minutes 10 seconds into the video, at 5:20 p.m., you can see a huge pulse of readers coming to the Web site, both from mobile devices and personal computers. This huge traffic bump happened after TMZ.com broke the news of Mr. Jackson’s death. As the news started to filter across the Internet, traffic continued to ebb and flow throughout the evening.
It’s also intriguing to see the heartbeat of reader visits throughout any particular day. You can see more mobile traffic in the mornings and afternoons, as readers commute to and from work, and a large pulse of readers coming to the site around lunchtime.
(Via NYTimes.com)
