Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Concerned about your air quality? Crime rates? Thinking of moving perhaps? Neighboroo provides a cool heatmap style mashup of geographic data and Google maps, designed to let you research the key characteristics of neighbourhoods which matter to you.
I would like to see something similar for Canada.
Via the fabulous Infosthetics.
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
While we are all caught up with the present warring in the Middle East this short video timeline infographic reminds us that the history of conflict in the Middle East is ancient and storied:
I had to look up the Caliphate and Saladin...and this is just an ultra macroscopic overview. No ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
All those years I spent listening to rock music on my headphones while studying were not in vain. Reported in the Times Online: "Researchers at a Scottish university believe that the sound of guitar-based rock such as Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC and the Red Hot Chili Peppers improves concentration and boosts ...
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
A great collection of scale visualizations. Worth a quick browse if you want to regain some perspective on the universe (photo from www.rense.com).
Signal Versus Noise is the blog of 37 Signals, a company which has shattered the usefulness to complexity ratio with apps I use daily such as Basecamp and ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Interesting visualizations of relationships in the Middle Eastern conflicts are presented by Information Aesthetics. No doubt these are simplifications but they could be a good start for those of us who have limited knowledge of the history and political geography of the region.
This particular infographic appeared in the New York ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
I follow a number of interesting blogs, but few are as consistently interesting as information aesthetics. They have really clued me in to the importance of presentation in making information come alive. It also emphasized the absurdity that throughout my science education, lots of emphasis was put on converting data ...
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
Looking inside yourself is quite surreal, and I'm not talking about introspection: I had an MRI scan due to a nagging back injury from indoor ultimate. The whole process was quite fast, about 20 minutes. You get loaded into a very tight space so this is definitely not for the ...
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
Very interesting infographic, published in The Atlantic, mapping cultural values. Apparently the study is by Ronald Inglehart of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Data seems to be collected via census, the last data available is from 2001. I suspect that there is a fair amount of ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Just a suggestion...
Check out the simultaneously useful and distracting Google Suggest: as you type the search field expands into a drop down list providing anticipatory or alternative searches and allowing you to see the difference in the size of the result sets for each of them. A great way of ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
This eastern Canadian was up until 3AM election night until it was pretty clear what was going to happen down south. With much of the world I followed this US election closely because we all know thanks to the 2000 election that who the Americans choose (I mean who gets ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2004
This site answers the age old question: "How Does One Obtain the Ability to 'See' in Four Spatial Dimensions?"
Also in the do it yourself category, make your own posters with the Rasterbator: "Welcome to the Rasterbator - NOW IN COLOR!The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures ...
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