data visualization

clearly a labor of love... really impressive details: in full-res: http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1... ... pulls out Jules Winnfield wallet to buy poster :-) ... do I need to add "SPOILER ALERT" ?? - Adriano from Bookmarklet

toxiclibs is an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing developed by Karsten “toxi” Schmidt (thus far). The classes are purposefully kept fairly generic in order to maximize re-use in different contexts ranging from generative design, animation, interaction/interface design, data visualization to architecture and digital fabrication, use as teaching tool and more. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

#processing - cyberpunk soul

"We also made spreadsheet charts more powerful and easier to work with. After you create a chart, it’s now simpler to copy an image of your chart and embed it into a document or drawing. There are more chart types to choose from now, too—from candlestick and combo charts to GeoMaps and TreeMaps." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Arrow widths are proportional to debt amounts. - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"iPhone records your location constantly, then timestamps that data and records it for posterity. The trouble with this unsolicited location tracking is that the hidden file that holds the data -- consolidated.db -- is relatively easy to uncover and read, making any desktops you've backed your phone up to and the phone itself even bigger privacy dangers than they would usually be. Additionally, restoring a backup or migrating to a new device keeps the data logging going, which the researchers point to as evidence that what's happening isn't accidental." http://www.engadget.com/2011... - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"The whole world is getting fatter, except perhaps for the women of Italy and Singapore. Globally, blood pressure is slowly coming down. Cholesterol is falling in rich countries and rising in developing ones." - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context." - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"Demonstration of using Linked Citation data (in the form of GraphML) within Gephi, suggesting basic tips and hints to get started." - Mike Chelen

"The Gephi project is always eager to experiment new kinds of tool to foster the community growth. We recently discovered Fundry and are very enthusiast to propose a try! Fundry is a crowdfunding platform that helps developers get paid for developing new features, and enables a community of funders to contribute to get the features they want. Win win. Read this page to learn how it works. The features we propose are four Export plug-ins to GML, Pajek NET, Ucinet DL and Netdraw VNA formats. This is typically the kind of feature the Gephi core developers don’t have time to work on, but are still important because users should have the ability to switch on different tools according to their needs. So if interoperability matters to you, we invite you to donate as it will help to find new developers to implement them." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

above compares Bhutan v. Japan... "The photographs [in the book] by Peter Menzel depict “statistically average” families in different countries. They pose with all of their belongings in front of their residence. The photos are an amazing example of the global distribution of “goods” in our contemporary world." \\ via @dictionary -- thanks! - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"Game Metrics Lecture from the course Game Systems Engineering that I teach at Blekinge Institute of Technology." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

This is a great way to get gamers interested in the statistics and other mathematics behind their favorite pastime. It also serves to increase our understanding of complex systems, because details of every activity are inherently available for recording. - Mike Chelen

"Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking. The plugin works with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+ with the HTML canvas tag (the excanvas Javascript emulation helper is used for IE)." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Had an easier time formatting data sources for use with Flot than Google Vis API, Google Charts, or Javascript Invovis Toolkit (JIT) - Mike Chelen

excellent visualization #predict #wcfeed \\ For more details on ELO ratings applied to predictions for the World Cup, see http://friendfeed.com/search... - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"When the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful. Automated sensors do more than give us facts; they also remind us that our ordinary behavior contains obscure quantitative signals that can be used to inform our behavior, once we learn to read them. When we quantify ourselves, there isn’t the imperative to see through our daily existence into a truth buried at a deeper level. Instead, the self of our most trivial thoughts and actions, the self that, without technical help, we might barely notice or recall, is understood as the self we ought to get to know. Behind the allure of the quantified self is a guess that many of our problems come from simply lacking the instruments to understand who we are." - Adriano from Bookmarklet

appartement à Paris : moyen 6591 € / m^2 au 1er avril 2010. Prix de l'immobilier à Paris, arrondissement par arrondissement + Google maps mashup! screenshots Paris http://j.imagehost.org/0391... -- France http://j.imagehost.org/0047... -- FX/area converter http://www.google.fr/#hl=fr... - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"Networks – social and biological – are all the rage, just now. Indeed, a recent entry at Duncan’s QOTD described the “hairball” network representation as the dominant cultural icon in molecular biology. I’ve not had occasion to explore networks “professionally”, but have always been fascinated by both networks and the tools used to analyse them. My grasp of graph theory, the mathematics behind networks, is more or less summarised by this Wikipedia page. I’ve also been exploring the igraph library and thought I’d share a few of my “experiments with igraph”. As I say, I’m learning myself as I go along, so none of this should be taken as professional advice. Let’s start with my favourite network – FriendFeed of course – and ask a few questions about everyone’s favourite group, The Life Scientists (TLS). My initial thought was: to what extent is TLS a community? In other words, do people who subscribe to TLS also tend to subscribe to one another?" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Trends in social data sometimes appear as channels which contain local extremes. The public poll conducted by the Pew Research Center regarding trust in the U.S. government illustrates this by the red lines which are almost parallel. The middle of the channel, shown by the yellow line, declines at the rate of 6 percentage poll points per decade. Its value would have been 100% in 1893, and reaches 0% in the year 2060. Extrapolation from such ocular superposition is extremely hazardous; however, it does one make wonder about the future, say, in 15 years when the lower red bound goes to zero. Will there be a complete loss of confidence in the U.S. government? What events could trigger that? Or with hope, one could ask what policy measures will reverse the dangerous downward trend. Reference: http://ff.im/jbjlL - Adriano