Last week I wrote about Jonathan Harris' amazing new project entitled Universe-- I saw him give a passionate and amazing talk at TED earlier this month. The guys at Cool Hunting have a nice video (available above in HD) where…
Continue Reading →One of my favorite talks last week was by Jonathan Harris, an artist, designer, and borderline genius living in Brooklyn, NY. We saw the potential of his work a while back with project We Feel Fine and I guess it…
Continue Reading →Just like I thought Google Earth was the next 'sliced bread,' I'm really excited about what 3D Live Stats is doing to change the way we view our website data. Long gone are the days of interpreting spreadsheets and 2D…
Continue Reading →Despite being a little spooky, Packet Garden is insanely intriguing. The downloadable application captures information about how you use the internet and translates all this data into a 'private world' you can explore. The application takes note of all the…
Continue Reading →New Orleans based advertising firm Peter Mayer created this interactive data visualization site entitled Lives Connected to coincide with the end of hurricane season. It's an interesting experiment, and ended up being quite the repository documenting the experiences of Hurricane…
Continue Reading →Word Count, an oldie but goodie shines a positive light on information gathering. There are so many different ways of presenting information and with a large enough dataset, that presentation's impact is even more substantial. Jonathan Harris's application combs the…
Continue Reading →Blogging is the wave of the future--it's a phenomena that has already sprouted an unprecedented level of world-wide communication--dare I say blogs are making the world smaller? The reader-reach of a blog depends on many factors; there is no easy…
Continue Reading →We love data visualization projects, so we were thrilled to see Digg finally joined the party in a partnership with Stamen Design-- together they launched their newest site: Digg Labs. "Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories…
Continue Reading →Ever wonder what types of things you talk about with your various email buddies? Or how your email conversations differ with each? Themail is a new tool (unfortunately PC only) that visualizes the contents of your email archive. Each column…
Continue Reading →Pedestrian Levitation is a very interesting "daily life" visualization project, which tracked the movements of pedestrians on street crossings (and of course the stray jay-walkers, too). Their movements are traced through a frame comparison, and video tracking tool, and some…
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