Beautiful and informative opinion cloud visualization by The Economist. Excellent use of hover states, with a little pizzaz added by a force-directed layout.
(via Babbage: December 28th 2011: Room for anyone else? | The Economist)
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Tableau Software: The Good, the Tech, and the Bad »
VizQL…?!
The good:
Christian Chabot[1]: “Every instance of people turning raw data into something useful includes turning it into a picture”
The tech:
VizQL, the visualization query language that powers the software, was developed at Stanford University by Chris Stolte and Pat Hanrahan, a founding employee at Pixar and the chief architect of that company’s RenderMan visualization and 3D rendering software—an effort that won him two Oscars.
The bad:
Unlike many emerging data technologies, Tableau was built for structured data—whatever fits nicely into rows and columns […]
As a final note, Tableau is able to draw some of the most beautiful graphics I’ve seen. They are much nicer even than Horace Dediu’s graphics.
Christian Chabot: CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software ↩
Original title and link: Tableau Software: The Good, the Tech, and the Bad (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
FInally saw LCD Soundsystem live at Camp Bisco 07.15-07.17 | New York on JamBase
The empathy map, one of XPLANE’s methods for understanding audiences, including users, customers, and other players in any business ecosystem Gamestorming » Blog Archive » Empathy Map
I absolutely love Bach on the violin, and I wanted to try to visualize it in PV3D. The logic is that it averages the amplification and frequency over 100 and 500 frames, respectively. This allows those modifiers to gracefully control the shapes. I am setting the size of the shape to respect the amplification at the sample time. (via Papervision3D v2 Sound Visualizer Experiment 1 « lukesh +interactive
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“ Officials will seek donations abroad and aim to raise $21bn (£11bn) by 2021.
The environmental group Greenpeace said it was the first time Brazil had accepted a link between global warming and preserving the rainforest (via BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil launches rainforest fund)
Reducing the data in this case was basically converting all the float values to integers, and then just saving the deltas instead of the real values. (via ricardo cabello* blog* )
Miss You The Rolling Stones 12 single mix (via podmixture)
