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Three and a Half Seconds About Life

24 September 2010
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You enter a contest and you are given three words. You have to make a short movie based on those three words — “ring”, “three and a half”, and “winter”. What topic or topics would you cover?
Yoav Brill, Shay Yosef, and Eran Hilleli came up with a creative answer to their limited data dilemma for [...]

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A Day in the Life, London c.2002

22 September 2010
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If you wanted to show “a day in the life” of someone living in a major city, what features of their life would you choose to highlight? French motion graphics studio H5 decided to focus on the details of a 20-something living in London. Directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy, the infographic is [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Version

20 September 2010
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If you were the Big Bad Wolf and you were on a diet, would you want to know how many calories Grandma contains? What about the cost of the bread and wine you, the parent, are sending to your mother or mother-in-law via your daughter? Tomas Nilsson took on the story of Little Red Riding [...]

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London Underground Style Map of Modern Science — 500 Years of Science, Reason & Critical Thinking

1 September 2010
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If you wanted to “celebrate the achievements of the scientific method through the age of reason, the enlightenment and modernity”, how would you show this? Would you throw a party? Write a Very Long Paper or Book? Or, like Crispian Jago, would you create a map of the past 500 years of science using “Harry [...]

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Animated Infographic Using BLS Data: the Volunteers

31 August 2010
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Do you volunteer? Do you want to volunteer? If you do, do you prefer education and youth services, the environment and animal care, hospital or other health care, or another kind of volunteering?
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, GOOD collaborated with Design Language to create this animated infographic of volunteers in the United [...]

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The Internet’s Black Holes by Reporters without Borders

20 August 2010
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Where on earth can data roam free, and where is it filtered, controlled, and contained? Where are the black holes of information flow on the Internet?
According to Reporters without Borders, the Internet’s “Black Holes” are Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Maldives, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. How do [...]

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Visualizing and Projecting Data into Real Space

20 August 2010
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If you could take a few statistics, codify the numbers, and represent them visually in real space, how would you do this? Christiane Keller did just that with dataMorphose as part of her diploma project. I think this is a very artistic and beautiful way to visualize data in real space — to tame it, [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Planets Testbed

16 August 2010

Last week, Team Digital Preservation released the 5th animation in their amusing take on the digital preservation problem.
In this episode, the topic is…virus protection and analysis!

Blizzard and his band of evil cronies, Team Chaos, have developed a devastating new weapon. But Never Fear trusty Viewers, tune in now to find out what those wonderful whizz-kids [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Arctic Mountain Adventure

9 July 2010

Team Digital Preservation released the 4th animation in their hilarious series on digital preservation this week.
In this episode, the topic is preservation planning, one of my areas.

Digiman is baby sitting his niece and nephew for the weekend, but things go horribly wrong when he sends them out on an arctic mountain adventure. Never fear trusty [...]

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The Project Management Tree Swing Cartoon, Past and Present

8 July 2010
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The project management tree swing cartoon below is famous amongst those of us who have engaged in any kind of software project management. I first came across it in the late 1990s, when I managed small projects at a regional data communications company. I remember printing it out and hanging it in my cubicle, [...]

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