Jer Thorp is the
New York Times' current Data Artist in Residence. He creates information-rich animations, most recently of the latest
Kepler candidate extrasolar planets [previously]; also a global render of
people's uses of
Twitter.
Lee Byron is a designer, artist, and biker: his work includes visualisations of
Facebook breakups over the course of a year and
Hollywood box office revenues, 1986 - 2008.
David McCandless is an "information journalist"; his blog,
InformationisBeautiful.net, has been
linked to
plenty of
times on the
blue, but you might enjoy
this overview of his work and others at TED. Similarly, Hans Rosling,
also mentioned previously.
[more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Feb 10, 2011 -
6 comments
Dataists give their hopes and dreams for data, data tools and
data science in 2011.
Already, Google has provided
Google Refine (
previously) to help clean your datasets. While great
visualizations can be created with online
tools or by combining R (great
posts previously), with
ggplot2,
GGobi, and even
Google Motion Charts With R (already built into Google
Spreadsheets).
Need data?
Needlebase, helps non-programmers scrape, harvest, merge, and data from the web. Or if you’re introspective,
Your Flowing Data and
Daytum provide tools to measure and chart details of your own life.
posted by stratastar
on Jan 11, 2011 -
19 comments
Google's Crystal Ball::NYTimes. Quite interesting...Via
TechDirt:
Google has created a predictive market system, basically a way for its employees to bet on the likelihood of possible events. Such markets have long been used to predict world events, like election results. Intrade, part of the Trade Exchange Network, allows people to bet on elections, stock market indexes and even the weather, for example.
I wonder
how accurate the
aggregated content of blogs would be to
measure the likelihood of
prospective real world events? The economist they consulted,
Hal R. Varian, has some
interesting links on his web page as well. I think that the internet better get their anti-spam technology up to par before we have people "gaming" the future through blogspam. For an explanation of Futures Markets (
charts), see
this page at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
posted by rzklkng
on Sep 26, 2005 -
5 comments
Information deemed useful to terrorists is
disappearing from government Web sites. I know this is old news, but this article details some of the specifics of whas has been happening. "The previous presumption, that publicly-funded information is the rightful property of the public until proven otherwise, has been replaced by the presumption that the public has to prove to a suspicious government that it deserves the information." I understand that as a nation we are hypersensitive now to terrorism, but isn't this just what the terrorists want? The loss of our freedoms to information?
posted by archimago
on Dec 19, 2002 -
14 comments
"The Web, left to its own devices, would be the exact opposite of that: It's like a giant city with no neighborhoods; it needs these kind of
meta-filters, these second-level kind of things, whether it is Yahoo or Google or Slashdot, to rein in that chaos and turn it to something more organized." From the
second page of
an interview with the author of
Emergence, Steven Johnson (also co-founder of
Feed).
posted by adrianhon
on Nov 28, 2001 -
10 comments
