Mapping the world with real-time Tweets, archived images and geotagging all tied together, creating a hybrid of your typical night-light-from-space imagery combined with the rich and constant web of communications activity.
Mapping the world with real-time Tweets, archived images and geotagging all tied together, creating a hybrid of your typical night-light-from-space imagery combined with the rich and constant web of communications activity.
Mapping the future - overlaps, intersections, trends, trials and trouble. Watch out for key intersections - and hope these metaphorical trains don’t all arrive in one station at the same time!
Future tech - getting closer every day. But what is really remarkable is just how these all have come together, and continue to overlap in ways no one would ever have predicted.
Mapping the Republic of Letters is a fascinating project by a team of students and professors at Stanford, visualizing the famous intellectual correspondence of the Enlightenment, how they traveled, and how the network evolved over time — an inspired cross-pollination of humanitarian scholarship and computer science.
So you need a typeface. This flow chart takes you through various types of questions, no pun intended, to help select something suited to a given project. This is perfect for those of us who try to look at ever single font and variant for every single layout, and get lost in the endless shuffle.
If you analyze aggregated cellphone traffic — as researchers at M.I.T., AT&T and I.B.M. did with United States data from July of last year — interesting patterns emerge.
Wikileaks Iraq (Redacted) - note the clusters, relationships, and what takes over when - then remember that this is just a sneak peak at one part of a huge set of released documents.
A rather simple and ingenious way to learn Morse Code visually rather than through rote alphabetical memorization. The visual presentation could be refined, but the point is clear and it provides a useful way to reinforce the self-education process.
