poptech:

What happens when ambitious and talented data scientists are connected with social organizations rife with data but lacking resources to do anything with it? 2011 Social Innovation Fellow Jake Porway’s Data Without Borders helps bring these two groups together, using data in the service of humanity to design transformative visualizations and decision-making tools.

Recently, we checked in with Porway to learn how his experience at PopTech shaped his current work with Data Without Borders.

(Reblogged from poptech)
freevo: The latest design by Last Exit to Nowhere, inspired by the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind View high resolution

freevo:

The latest design by Last Exit to Nowhere, inspired by the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind

(Reblogged from wurlitzer)

mivoltmaaneten:

BKV 0-24h - Budapest egy napja

A BKK-nak hála, a GTFS segítségével így ábrázolható a budapesti tömegközlekedés egy munkanapja. A videón minden pötty egy-egy jármű menetrend szerinti pozícióját jelöli. A kék pöttyök buszt, a sárgák villamost, a pirosak trolit, a fehérek éjszakai járatot takarnak, míg a vastagabb narancs, piros és kék a metróvonalakat, a vastagabb zöld pedig a HÉV szerelvényeket ábrázolja. 1 másodperc a videón a valóságban 10 percet takar.

(Reblogged from mivoltmaaneten)
Where people use Facebook? Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships around the world by connecting locations with arcs. Visual arts graduate student Ian Wojtowicz mashed that with NASA’s well-known map showing Earth at night, and the above is what you get. The black areas represent Facebook coverage, and the yellow areas are where there are people not using Facebook. It’s like the map by Thorsten Gaetz with more granularity. View high resolution

Where people use Facebook?

Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships around the world by connecting locations with arcs. Visual arts graduate student Ian Wojtowicz mashed that with NASA’s well-known map showing Earth at night, and the above is what you get.

The black areas represent Facebook coverage, and the yellow areas are where there are people not using Facebook. It’s like the map by Thorsten Gaetz with more granularity.

If UK Internet usage was just 1 hour

If UK Internet usage was just 1 hour

Measuring Social Media ROI

visualoop:

Infographic: The ROI of Social Media
Infographic by MDG Advertising

(Reblogged from visualoop)
tiffanyfarrant: The Data Cake A brilliant visual metaphor for data visualization and the relationship between information and insight (via Curiosity Counts)

tiffanyfarrant:

The Data Cake

A brilliant visual metaphor for data visualization and the relationship between information and insight (via Curiosity Counts)

(Reblogged from tiffanyfarrant)

taumazo:

Data visualization. Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.

Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

(Reblogged from taumazo)
what is your favourite food? india: indian. hmmm. insightful. View high resolution

what is your favourite food?

india: indian.

hmmm. insightful.

Data Visualisation Competition

Hi,

 

It’s Mark from EpicGraphic here.

 

I’m contacting you about a data visualisation competition we’re running with David McCandless and Postgrad.com.  We will be getting some mainstream press coverage, but what we really need is to get entrants to the competition.  So I’m appealing to prominent data visualisation and visual journalism blogs to see if you’d be interested in doing a short blog post about the competition.

 

You can find out details of the competition here:  http://www.postgrad.com/editorial/data-visualisation-competition/.  

 

If you’ve any questions, give me a shout.  I’ll happily give you as much information as I can about the competition. 

 

Anything you can do to help make the competition a success would be massively appreciated.

 

Best regards,

 

Mark