Friday, January 19th, 2007
The indispensable New Scientist reports that
the distribution of dark matter has been mapped in 3D for the first time, revealing how the mysterious substance has evolved over the lifetime of the universe. The results confirm that dark matter provided the scaffolding that allowed ordinary matter to clump together to ...
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
The folks at Groupscope give us some fascinating looks into, among other things, the relationships behind some successful so-called "Web 2.0" startup ventures:
From the Linksviewer blog.
I wonder how severe the survivorship bias is. It would be more interesting to see all ventures that these individuals were involved with (perhaps the ...
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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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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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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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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Funny if you have a "crackberry" or know someone who has one:
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