Daily Archives: 13 March, 2012

Manas observations

#1.City Peaks http://www.creativeapplications.net/scripts/city-peaks-digit-employees-climb-the-shard-mountain/ Provided description To encourage fitness in their studio, London design group Digit decided to use their R&D stream to create a new way for it’s employees to compete against one another by the amount of times they walk … Continue reading

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Feeling about Data:

For me it is an interesting thing how the Visualization Data can improve the way that we see some data information that usually came like a cold table. It is interested the way that someone design the data and gives … Continue reading

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Observations – Rohit

1. Health Infoscape [MIT Senseable City Lab] This visualization helps relate different ailments and symptoms with each other and to the underlying causes. Ref. http://senseable.mit.edu/healthinfoscape/interactive/HealthInfoScape.html   I liked the info graphic because of the flexibility in information layering and the … Continue reading

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Raz findings

Feltron Annual Report Four things have really caught my attention in this project: how much Feltron is revealing about himself and circle in a time when everyone is talking about privacy. The confidence he has to actually publish a project … Continue reading

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i <3 these…

//Web// Bicycle built for two thousand Bicycle Built for Two Thousand is an interesting project by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey. Using Amazon Mechanical Turk, they gather the sounds from a pool of 2000 people to recreate the song Daisy … Continue reading

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emotive/empathic AND information/data

I believe in what Tufte says about excellence in statistical graphics. I admire the earnesty of this constitution for representing information. I took a class with Tufte a few months ago and I remember him saying that a good design … Continue reading

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Ruben’s Findings

One day of taxis: a beautiful visualization of the combination of everyday traffic and a day out of the life of a taxi driver. The map shows how the city infrastructure is use by as well the mass as individual … Continue reading

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mo’ reviews.

At first glance the history of dance map looks quite complicated, however, upon pressing the ‘play’ button, the meaning behind the graphic is quite clear. It is simply the history of the evolution of music mapped over its geographic origins. … Continue reading

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Tweets

CIID Twitter Examples: http://golancourses.net/ciid/resources/TwitterInProcessing.zip Here are some supplementary materials, which I’ve snagged from another of my courses, relating to Twitter in Processing, and using Twitter with Arduino, and Java String processing. In this exercise, we can also explore the idea … Continue reading

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beauty and information

These two maps make me think about the difference and similarities between beauty and information, and where the two work together and when you have to choose. There are trade offs (aesthetic and information) when you prioritize one. I suppose … Continue reading

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