Posts Tagged ‘visualization’

Visualization: We Feel Fine

(warning: this is causing my browsers to crash on mac 10.6.2; they are loading fine on windows)
We Feel Fine
by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
This piece is beautiful.  An interactive visualization again of blog post data including statements relating to emotions.  This is a constantly changing data set, refreshing every 10 minutes and gathering information from [...]

Visualization/Net Art: The Dumpster

(warning: this is causing my browsers to crash on mac 10.6.2; they are loading fine on windows)
The Dumpster, by Golan Levin, with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg for the Whitney and the Tate online gallery, 2006
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/

This piece is amusing and good looking.  From a usability perspective, the interface is not very intuitive and from [...]

Wattzon API Available

Wattzon released an API that allows you to get profile data and data from the Embodied Energy Database (EED, http://www.wattzon.com/stuff).  I’m planning to use this as part of my final project for the class I’m taking on mashups.
Wattzon and Wesabe are working together.  From the Wattzon blog post from 02/09/09: Wesabe is a free, online [...]

Visualizing Election Data

Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/index.html
Searching for data about how campaign and proposition donations are spent and how well money-spent maps to election-won, I came across these Google Maps showing a variety of election data including but not limited to: Primary results, Election-related twitter, Donation Density, the Life stories of both Obama and McCain.
Federal Election Committee released “Campaign Finance [...]