A roundup of links to interesting articles and resources about data, visualization and other things we like:
The Visualization of Randomness: “WHAT DOES RANDOMNESS LOOK LIKE? RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness. The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained.”
50 Great Examples of Visualization: A fairly well researched collection of visualization examples from across the web. Also a great gallery of vis from the most popular open data sources out there, like the Last.FM API.
Force Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization: Holy visualization geekery!! Matt Raker (co-founder of Jute Networks) sent this along from the all-time leader in social network visualization galleries, VisualComplexity.com. Matt points out that there is some powerful stuff in here…read on for more…if you dare.
Mapping a better world (from The Economist): “Interest groups around the world are using mapping tools and internet-based information sources to campaign for change…” Read on. Great examples of Visualization technologies in action.
MapLight wins political action lawsuit: The team at MapLight.org, with a coalition of First Amendment supporters, has successfully won a lawsuit to get machine-readable database access to how California legislators vote. MapLight turns that data around to visualize the connection between money and politics.
Map of Modern Day Palestine: Regardless of your political slant on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this map will be insightful. It’s rare that a work of visualization so clearly makes a point in a single image, but this does the trick.
DAYTUM: “Daytum helps you collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data.” That’s right. Random data, submitted from random people. At the time of this post, DevilishDuck had just reached 695 Major League Baseball innings watched. Somebody oughta visualize that…
And…that’s all for this time. Check back soon to see more favorites from Jute Networks..
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