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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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Tsunami Animated Infographic

1 September 2010
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What is a tsunami? What makes it so powerful? Joshua Lue Chee Kong answers those questions with a short animated infographic about tsunamis. He discusses the history and origins of tsunamis, as well as their impact today.
While the information conveyed about tsunamis is very general and not new, I found the graphics bright and easy [...]

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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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Mean Happiness Infographic: Which Countries Are Happiest?

25 August 2010
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How happy are we? Does the level of happiness vary by country over time? By events in a country?
GOOD and OPEN collaborated with Dorian Orange to demonstrate our mean levels of happiness by country, over time, via this animated infographic. The smiley faces represent, well, happiness, and the dips in the smile represent rising [...]

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Animation of the Tsunami Across the Pacific After the Chilean Earthquake

24 August 2010
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The earthquake in Chili on February 27th, 2010, caused massive damage within the country, but also generated a massive tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Tsunami Research created the animation below of the tsunami as it traveled across the Pacific.
With regards to the saying that a [...]

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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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Invisible Urban Social Networks Made Visible

29 July 2010
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Our virtual social networks are bits of data flying through cyberspace. We see them via our apps and Web interfaces. But what would they look like if you geo-tagged them and visualized the connections over a virtual map? Christian Marc Schmidt and Liangjie Xia examined these connections within the urban space of the greater New [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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The Humanities Take on Data Mining via Google Books

22 June 2010
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The Humanities are “Going Google”, according to Marc Parry of The Chronicle, in a piece he wrote a few weeks ago.
The gist of the article is that some Humanities scholars are very interested in data mining the texts scanned in for the Google Books Project.
Why do they want to use Big Data mining techniques [...]

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The Multiple Aspects of Data Science

21 June 2010
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Earlier this month, Nathan Yau at FlowingData posted Mike Loukides‘ analysis of data science from O’Reilly Radar. I finally found some time to read it.
I really enjoyed the post. The author entitled it, “What is data science?“, and covered the various aspects of the newbie field, primarily from a commercial point of view. He examined: [...]

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