New York Times: Death of Osama Bin Laden: How Significant a Moment?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 15:36
Ingenious interactive captures and visualises reader sentiment: "We asked readers the following questions: Was his death significant in our war against terror? And do you have a negative or positive view of this event? Readers — 13,864 of them â…
Information Aesthetics: LinkedIn InMaps Reveals your Professional Network
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 16:51
"InMaps [linkedinlabs.com] is new service that visualizes the collection of a LinkedIn 'connections' as a single network graph."
10,000 Words: 7 Innovative online maps
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 16:25
"The technology that is paired with online maps is constantly improving, which means the ways media organizations are using them have become more diverse. Check out a few online maps that are furthering what’s possible with map mashups."
Flowing Data: This Tract provides a view of Census data on your block
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 15:03
"This Tract, by Michal Migurski of Stamen, with some help from Craig Mod, lets you view details of your block by way of Census data. It's still using 2000 data but was built in anticipation of the 2010 release, which should come in a couple o…
CJR: Interactivity on a Budget
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:59
"How several smaller newsrooms dealt with election data. … It would be unfair, though, to only focus on heavy-hitting sites that have dedicated interactive staff for such time-consuming projects. Across the country, smaller-circulation newspapers had to make the same decisions about how to visualize the data coming in on Election Night, but they had to make those decisions with far fewer resources. I believe the Times newsroom has at least two dozen people working full time on interactive projects; many smaller papers might be lucky to have a handful of people who know Flash."
Stanford Vis Group: Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:26
"Data visualization is regularly promoted for its ability to reveal stories within data, yet these 'data stories' differ in important ways from traditional forms of storytelling. Storytellers, especially online journalists, have increasingly been integrating visualizations into their narratives, in some cases allowing the visualization to function in place of a written story. In this paper, we systematically review the design space of this emerging class of visualizations. … Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."
Stanford Vis Group: Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:26
"Data visualization is regularly promoted for its ability to reveal stories within data, yet these 'data stories' differ in important ways from traditional forms of storytelling. Storytellers, especially online journalists, have increasingly been integrating visualizations into their narratives, in some cases allowing the visualization to function in place of a written story. In this paper, we systematically review the design space of this emerging class of visualizations. … Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."
10,000 Words: Friday Roundup: This week in visualization
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:24
"Jakob Nielsen, posted research (and sick visuals) this week showing that users pay close attention to web photos and images that contain relevant information but ignore stock photos and other purely decorative fluff. … "
10,000 Words: Friday Roundup: This week in visualization
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:24
"Jakob Nielsen, posted research (and sick visuals) this week showing that users pay close attention to web photos and images that contain relevant information but ignore stock photos and other purely decorative fluff. … "
Forbes.com: Interactive: Billionaires’ Favorite Politicians
Monday, 1 November 2010, 18:43
"The billionaires on the Forbes 400 list have given more than $30 million to politicians and political action committees since 2006, along with millions more in soft money to politically active groups. Although Forbes 400 members give about 15% more money to Republicans than Democrats, they fund groups across the political spectrum."
Applied Works: The Times iPad graphics
Monday, 9 August 2010, 18:14
"Applied Works is producing an ongoing series of interactive graphics to support The Times’ recently-launched iPad app."
BBC News: The top 100 sites on the internet
Friday, 12 March 2010, 17:34
"Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet."
Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 21:19
"News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to Calais … Each time two tags appear in the same story, this tool tallies one connection between them. … s this tool scans hundreds of stories, this network grows rapidly, and "communities" begin to form among the tags. … The news network that results is visualized using Slate's custom News Dots tool, which is built using an open-source Actionscript library called Flare."
Official Google Blog: Adding search power to public data
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 06:46
"We just launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data … Since Google's acquisition of Trendalyzer two years ago, we have been working on creating a new service that make lots of data instantly available for intuitive, visual exploration. Today's launch is a first step in that direction."
