Awesome ways to deliver information
July 12th, 2006
I caught up on the last four months of posts from Information Aesthetics, this blog about “data visualization and visual culture.” Here are the highlights (link to the site followed by IA’s description and link to the IA blog post):
- DrugQuilt: A dynamic data visualization of the brand name & generic drugs the US Food & Drugs Administration has approved (read Information Aesthetics’ post about Drug Quilt).
- BBC’s most popular stories: Interactive data visualizations that are based on the real-time usage of the BBC news website (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
- Flickr User Model:A sophisticated infographic illustrating the current user model of flickr, visually connecting the concepts of groups, feeds, blogs, contacts & so on (read Information Aesthetics’ post about ).
- State of the Union visualization: A visualization of all all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006, showing how specific words gain & lose prominence over time, & linking information on the historical context for their use (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
- Trends Timeline: A comprehensive visual map that merges various timelines of musical, technological, economical & political trends (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
- Knight Rider dashboard: Several graphic design studies that focus on the information dashboard of the coolest car of the 80’s, & its talking voice: KITT (read Information Aesthetics’ post about this).
- Email thread visualization:: It combines the chronology of messages with the branching tree structure of a conversational thread.
I also found two new blogs: Junk Charts is about visual data gone wrong, and many of its samples are from newspapers. Also, Presentation Zen discusses professional presentation design.
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