Data visualization

#yay çalışıyor mu hala 8) - Emrah Cengiz

Savaş görünür de anlamsızdı , ama birileri için çok büyük anlamı vardı. Tek dünya gücü olmak isteyenlerin bir yoldan beslenmesi gerekiyordu yapıldı. - •beliz•

"While it may be useful to reason about the averages, social phenomena are really made up of millions of small transactions between individuals. There are patterns in those individual transactions that are not just averages, they're the things that are responsible for the flash crash and the Arab spring. You need to get down into these new patterns, these micro-patterns, because they don't just average out to the classical way of understanding society. We're entering a new era of social physics, where it's the details of all the particles—the you and me—that actually determine the outcome. Reasoning about markets and classes may get you half of the way there, but it's this new capability of looking at the details, which is only possible through Big Data, that will give us the other 50 percent of the story. We can potentially design companies, organizations, and societies that are more fair, stable and efficient as we get to really understand human physics at this fine-grain scale. This new computational social science offers incredible possibilities." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"This is the first time in human history that we have the ability to see enough about ourselves that we can hope to actually build social systems that work qualitatively better than the systems we've always had. That's a remarkable change. It's like the phase transition that happened when writing was developed or when education became ubiquitous, or perhaps when people began being tied... more... - Amira

“Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt’s dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago – all in seconds. (…) The idea arose in a UC Berkeley course about Big History taught by Walter Alvarez, the campus geologist who first proposed that a comet or asteroid smashed into the Earth 65 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs. Big History is a unified, interdisciplinary way of looking at and teaching the history of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity: the history of everything. One of the difficulties of teaching history –- and teaching Big History, in particular –- is conveying a sense of the time scale, which ranges from the 50,000-year time span of modern humans to the 13.7 billion-year history of the universe, Alvarez said. Human history... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Do you know what happens in one minute on the Internet? In just one minute, more than 204 million emails are sent. Amazon rings up about $83,000 in sales. Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr. At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world. And more than 61,000 hours of music are played on Pandora while more than 1.3 million video clips are watched on YouTube. Computing is transforming and touching more people in a wider range of devices. From smartphones to tablets, netbooks and notebooks and even automotive; it can often seem like every one of us is connected. But while it’s hard to miss the proliferation of portable devices, it’s what we don’t see that’s the bigger issue. (...) Today, the number of networked devices equals the world’s population. By 2015, the number of networked devices is expected to be double the world’s population. And by the time we reach 2015, it would take five years to view all the video content crossing IP networks each second." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"The mobile phone has rapidly become a very essential tool that we carry with us all the time, everywhere we go. It has become the focus of our communication and information in a hyper-connected world which tolerates less and less that we disconnect or just don't have immediate access to information. Based on this conclusion the City of Geneva decided to take the challenge to visualize these digital traces created by our mobile phones. The objective of this installation is to make this data visible and allow you to explore these streams of connected people around the city, in their everyday life." - Amira from Bookmarklet

The Words That Defined 2011 | NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2012... - Amira

LightBox 365: A Year in Photographs | TIME http://lightbox.time.com/2011... - Amira

"In memory of Benoit Mandelbrot: "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." "Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along with the Edge/Serpentine collaboration: "What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century." (...) The multi-dimensional Map Marathon features non-stop live presentations by over 50 artists, poets, writers, philosophers, scholars, musicians, architects, designers and scientists. The two-day event takes place in London during Frieze Art Fair week." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Money - A Chart of All of It, Where It Is and What It Can Do [xkcd.com] by Randall Munroe's webcomic xkcd is the epitome of all infographics: an immensely large chart, accompanied by some immensely small captions, that together compare the different amounts of money flowing in the world. From single dollar amounts to those huge trillion numbers that we now regularly hear about in the news, it's all included by representing the individual quantities by an accompanying number of small squares. How does 2008 global financial recession impact the US versus Europe? Where and what is the "1%"? What is the value of a solid gold toilet? How much money is spent during the elections, and on who? Or how much loose change fits in a one-gallon jug?" http://xkcd.com/980... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities. Each country is colored according to its average annual gross national income per capita, using categories established by the World Bank (see key below). Some nations— like economic powerhouses China and India—have an especially wide range of incomes. But as the two most populous countries, both are lower middle class when income is averaged per capita." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Barabási updated the Erdős–Rényi model to reflect the existence of hubs in real-world networks. In doing so, he created a tool for scientists to map and explore all manner of complex systems in ways they had never thought to before. (…) “What we have to realize is that control is a natural progression of understanding processes,” he says. “But control is a question of will, and will can be controlled by laws. We have to come together as a society to figure out how far we can push it.” (...) Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks. “We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.” - Amira from Bookmarklet

Thank you Ken, it turns out that Christakis' book is already on my "to-read" list. I've just checked Barabasi's Bursts: “Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.” - hmm both books seems intriguing... - Amira

"Serendipity, a trigger of exciting discoveries when we least expect it, is currently being discussed as an often neglected but still important factor in information seeking processes, research, and ideation. In this paper we explore serendipity as an information visualization goal. In particular, we introduce the Bohemian Bookshelf visualization that aims to support serendipitous exploration of digital book collections. The Bohemian Bookshelf consists of five interlinked visualizations, each representing a unique (over) view of the collection. It facilitates serendipitous discoveries by (1) offering multiple access points by providing visualizations of different perspectives on the book collection, (2) enticing curiosity through abstract, metaphorical, and visually distinct representations of the collection, (3) highlighting alternate adjacencies between books, (4) providing multiple pathways for exploring the data collection in a flexible way, (5) supporting immediate previews of... more... - Amira

“For the last year, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future have been researching the future of science to identify big areas of science we think will have a transformative impact over the next decade. We read a lot of papers, conducted interviews, hosted an Open Science unconference, held an expert workshop with researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Scripps Research Institute, SETI, and private industry, and spent many weeks synthesizing what we learned. (...) The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. Those stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in scientific research. (...) Every forecast could be rephrased as a “what if” question. What if you could record your dreams? What if you could design a life... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

#marketing - Anton from Bookmarklet

http://your.flowingdata.com/ "YFD is a way to collect data about yourself and your surroundings via Twitter. Record what you eat, when you go to sleep, how much television you watch, smoke (me), t-shirts you wear or anything else you want." - found via Filip Visnjic (http://friendfeed.com/welovea...) - Anton from Bookmarklet

‘It seems like the usage of Google Earth goes way beyond checking for your neighbours garden and with the possibilities fo KML complex data visualizations in a 3D environment are at your fingertips. OpenEarth.eu even provides some tutorials on how to get startet with these types of visualizations.’ — via http://www.datavisualization.ch/tools... - Anton from Bookmarklet

‘Shalley's impressive oil paintings and pencil drawings use real information in an attempt to depict the understanding of how things evolve and relate to one another, and how this develops over time.’ #visualization #infographic #drawing - Anton

“There’s a disconnect that happens when we assume we know what we’re talking about when we talk about hundreds of millions of plastic bottles,” Jordan says. “I’m trying to translate these numbers from the deadening language of statistics into a visual language that allows some kind of comprehension.” #visualization - Anton from Bookmarklet

Series of graphics ‘exploring authorship and collaboration, self reference, song keys and working schedule.’ #visualization #music - Anton from Bookmarklet

‘On the first panel, I chose to represent the circadian rhythm cycle and how they normally work. On the second panel, I presented how circadian rhythms can get off track due to long-distance travel, aka jet lag.’ found via http://coolinfographics.com/blog... - Anton from Bookmarklet

(found via Datavisualization.Ch) - Anton from Bookmarklet

Anyone? Beuler? - Jason Wehmhoener

Feed bundles — new Google Reader feature. - Anton

"It's pretty simple (it's a 3D column chart), but it get's it's point across well. The accumulated debt for the average American continues to outpace their annual income. The concept of living beneath your means is foreign to a lot of people." - Anton from Bookmarklet