whitney music box -- a fantastic animation You may notice some interesting links between the visuals and the audio, especially if you are a musician. For example, when the pattern forms a 3-arm starfish, the chords you are hearing are diminished chords, which consist of minor thirds, an interval in which the notes are 3 chromatic steps apart. The chords you hear always bear this type of relationship to the pattern you are seeing, consisting of intervals which match the arrangement of arms.
Really, just look, and you'll get it.
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posted by MrMoonPie
on Dec 22, 2011 -
18 comments
Princeton's 5th annual Art of Science Competition "The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. These practices both involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what you perceive suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment."
posted by dhruva
on Nov 15, 2011 -
8 comments
OpenCPU provides a
RESTful interface to the popular open-source statistical package
R, enabling the user to perform calculations and create publication-quality or web-embeddable visualizations via standard web requests.
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Nov 10, 2011 -
17 comments
A visitor to the Rotten Tomatoes site can check out the data for individual Hollywood careers—that's how Tabarrok came up with the Shyamalan graph—but there's no easy way for users to measure industrywide trends or to compare different actors and directors side-by-side. To that end, Rotten Tomatoes kindly let Slate analyze the scores in its enormous database and create an interactive tool so our readers might do the same.
posted by Trurl
on Jun 7, 2011 -
69 comments
Like most game companies, Square Enix records every significant activity that occurs in their online environments. Jim Blackhurst took a database of "terminal impact events" in
Just Cause 2 and mapped each of the 11 million player deaths to to the geography of the game to create
a haunting visualization.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on May 18, 2011 -
27 comments
The inmost circle is a geographically accurate map of Middle Earth according to Tolkien's design, and the journey of the Fellowship is plotted according to major destinations and places of action. -
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posted by Trurl
on May 10, 2011 -
26 comments
"A Series of
Statistical Charts, Illustrating
The Condition of the Descendants of Former African Slaves
Now Resident In the United States of America." (HQ Library of Congress
links.)
W.E.B. DuBois : "I wanted to set down its aim and method in some outstanding way which would bring my work to the notice of the thinking world. The great World's Fair at Paris was being planned and I thought I might put my findings into plans, charts and figures, so one might see what we were trying to accomplish."
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posted by stratastar
on Feb 25, 2011 -
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The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010 - "Researchers are generating mind-boggling volumes of data at exponentially increasing rates. The ability to process that information and display it in ways that enhance understanding is an increasingly important aspect of the way scientists communicate with each other and—especially—with students and the general public. That's why, for the past 8 years, Science and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have co-sponsored annual challenges to promote cutting-edge efforts to visualize scientific data, principles, and ideas.
This year's awardees span scales from nanoparticles to colliding galaxies, and from microseconds to millennia."
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Feb 19, 2011 -
9 comments
Starship Schematics Database:
dedicated to the sole purpose of archiving every single starship design ever conceived in the Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Space Battleship Yamato (A.K.A. Star Blazers in the USA) Universes, both official and unofficial, interesting and mediocre.
posted by Joe Beese
on Feb 12, 2011 -
35 comments
"
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram."
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posted by pwally
on Jan 31, 2011 -
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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
In an age of information wealth, how do we decide what's true & what's not? Allow me to introduce the world of discussion mapping. First up we have
zest (
demo here), a simple tool for threading mailing lists for easier navigation. It lacks the advanced features of the others but it's an easy starting point for structuring your discussions.
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posted by scalefree
on Jan 10, 2011 -
6 comments
Edward Tufte, patron saint of information visualization, is auctioning off his sizeable library of rare books, including major works in the history of science and statistical graphics. Christies auction catalogue is
available for your perusal. First edition Isaac Newton, anyone?
posted by krunk
on Nov 10, 2010 -
35 comments
visualizing.org,
Making sense of complex issues
through data and design.
About.
Visualizing is a place to showcase your work, get feedback, ensure that your work is seen by lots of people and gets used by teachers, journalists, and conference organizers to help educate the public about various world issues.
posted by nickyskye
on Oct 4, 2010 -
6 comments
