Awesome data sculpture made up of 60+ molecular globes that change color depending on the weather forecast. Check out the video and stills on the site.
Daytum is a free service that lets you keep track of anything you want and then graphs it in a variety of ways. You can share it with others so they can follow your progress.
There’s now also a free iPhone app so you can track, graph, analyze and obsess over your personal data on the go!
Ebay uses it’s data to visualize online transactions made on their site on Black Friday in this interactive map. Neat!
Will Ommwriter make you write better? Ommwriter is a Mac word processor with a minimal interface and a focus on avoiding distractions.
As agencies are increasingly responsible for product design and creation, Weiden + Kennedy London decided to sell their own product on the side: handmade jewelry. A compelling integration of data and craft, the pendants chart commodity prices using the commodities themselves as material. So now you can wear the price of gold for the price of £198.
There’s a great article in TechCrunch today that talks about how location has the power to become the bridge between social networking and social interaction in the real world. The post calls out an interesting application called Socialgreat that mines the data of people ‘checking-in’ to different locations on twitter, foursquare, brightkite, graffitiGeo and tells you which spots are most popular by hour, day, week or year.
A necessary and good ‘next’ step towards making social networking even more ‘social’.
The ability to locate a shooting quickly can help police catch bad guys and save lives. In Richmond, California, acoustic gunfire detection is doing just that. With acoustic sensors distributed around the city, dispatchers can use the sound of gunfire to pinpoint where a shooting happened, the number of shots fired, and even the kind of gun that was used. (via GOOD)
Five students from Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore have created Photosketch, an exciting new program that translates simple sketches into seamless photomontages created from images pulled from the web.
Photosketch users draw a bare bones sketch and layout of the image they’d like to create, labeling each item with a basic i.d. Photosketch then searches the web for matching photos and then uses a blending algorithm to figure out which images would work best for the process. The result is a startling photo image based on the original layout. (From: Creativity)
Here’s a link to download the source code if you want to try it out!
Smashing Magazine just posted a thorough list of Data Visualization and Info Graphic designers and blogs.
We have a category dedicated to Data Visualization for even more ideas.
Some notable executions from the list include:
The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions from Information is Beautiful
Good Magazine’s Jobless in the City
Mayor Newsom, Tim O’Reilly, Matt Mullenweg (wordpress), Stamen, and others got together last week to discuss public data management and implementation. They discuss how San Francisco is leading the way for American cities with the launch of DataSF.
