Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.
via laughing squid
Keiichi Matsuda imagines what it would be like when digital layers of information converge with the physical environment – no device required. (Best viewed in 3D if you have 3D glasses handy)
Kinetic type video of social media stats from Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics v3 book.
Twitter recently published two incredible data visualization videos showing the links between outgoing and incoming tweets from Japan following the March 11 earthquake. It’s a great example of how digital tools enable us all to communicate world wide.
From twitter’s blog:
“On Twitter, we saw a 500 percent increase in Tweets from Japan as people reached out to friends, family and loved ones in the moments after the earthquake. The video below shows the volume of @replies traveling into and out of Japan in a one-hour period just before and then after the earthquake. Replies directed to users in Japan are shown in pink; messages directed at others from Japan are shown in yellow.”
Check it out here
This innovative software uses Nike+ GPS data to create stunning custom visuals. Tracking a runner’s speed and style, the software produces abstract maps and visualizations of runs throughout the city. At a lunch event for Nike+2 City Pack series, participants played with the software and printed images of their runs as posters and as designs on custom Nike shoe boxes.
Via YesYesNo
These already-cool photographs — captured at night with long-exposure film and a laptop playing an animation — become infinitely cooler once you know the haunting story behind them. (Conceived by GSP’s Croix Gagnon)
Contributed by James Taylor
See how information propagates on the web.
Done for NYT stories but the underlying code can be used by anyone.
http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html
Contributed by Gareth Kay
DisplayContent is a thought-provoking augmented reality proof of concept to come out of the Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon.
via fastcompany
This data visualization of civilian casualties in Afghanistan shows what web browsers can render without the use of plugins. In the words of the Developer and Designer, George Michael Brower:
That this visualization can be viewed in-browser is a testament to the promise of modern web technologies such as WebGL, HTML5 and CSS3, all of which were leveraged in this piece. As browsers adopt support for these standards, developers and their audience will enjoy fewer barriers to rich experiences, hopefully increasing the visibility and appreciation of code as art. Thanks to Ricardo Cabello for three.js as well as Chris Lauritzen and Jono Brandel.
Contributed by James Craig
From former Stamen and Barbarian Group people comes Bloom.io, a new startup in San Francisco focused on data visualization with game design.
And some of their products:
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim