It's a map of the entire Internet. ^via
posted by signal on Oct 29, 2007 - 33 comments

The web. In logos. Categorized. via.
posted by signal on Jun 12, 2007 - 23 comments

Contrived is the new original. via.
posted by signal on Mar 10, 2007 - 38 comments

2007 Calendar: It contextualizes every hour, even on a year’s time scale: if someone marks the calendar, then looks back in even as little as an hour, they will be able to see time’s inexorable march. ...a sort of graph paper for personal life.
posted by signal on Dec 25, 2006 - 13 comments

You see, when large trucks make a right turn, they swing a little bit wide to the left first. Simple idea. Many ways to express it. God bless us all.
posted by signal on Oct 29, 2006 - 35 comments

Real Time Rome, the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale, aggregated data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time. via information aesthetics
posted by signal on Sep 18, 2006 - 4 comments

Colour Player: at last, you can organize your music by its color.
posted by signal on Aug 29, 2006 - 12 comments

Lightweight data exploration: simple, sparkline-esque graphs in Excel.via infosthetics.
posted by signal on Aug 19, 2006 - 15 comments

John Powers: Analog recursion. via dataisnature.
posted by signal on Aug 9, 2006 - 13 comments

A plane you can print. via bldblog, which has a lot more context and speculation.
posted by signal on Jul 23, 2006 - 17 comments

Direct physical manipulation of data. PDF & you should see the Video. via information aesthetics.
posted by signal on Jul 22, 2006 - 17 comments

8=8 is a group of four programmers = four performers = four artists. We each built our own program for my Hypertable platform, then created a program that would group them together for a public performance. More videos &c.
posted by signal on Jul 10, 2006 - 9 comments

Design. Architecture. Football. The awe-inspiring sight of the entire Argentina team moving fluidly as if to some pre-ordained ballet was simply Liquid Football. 24 passes throughout 8 of the 10 outfield Argentines, ... was largely improvised in real-time, entirely determined by the context of the opposing team - which cannot be accurately predicted at all.
posted by signal on Jun 29, 2006 - 68 comments

Color theory is demonstrated before your very eyes, inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Itten, Joseph Albers, Marcel Duchamp and George Jetson. yes it's the COLORBOT© Color Harmonizer-Discorder. via dataisnature
posted by signal on Jun 27, 2006 - 26 comments

SupaFormula Destrukt using vvv*. via dataisnature
* a toolkit for real time video synthesis.
posted by signal on Jun 14, 2006 - 10 comments

The Rubik's Cube was of course primarily intended as a live music-making instrument. The whole 'solving it' craze was missing the point.
posted by signal on May 15, 2006 - 5 comments

When all else fails, go to your happy place.
via BLDGBLOG
posted by signal on Mar 30, 2006 - 25 comments

Worldmapper, because you can never have too many cartograms.
posted by signal on Mar 24, 2006 - 13 comments

"SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN" is an attempt to create a tridimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web. The objective is to compare the city's "physical spaces" and "information spaces"
posted by signal on Mar 13, 2006 - 8 comments

A Bright, Shiny Service: Sparklines A web service implementation of Edward Tufte’s sparklines idea, in Python.
posted by signal on Jun 24, 2005 - 11 comments