Posts Tagged ‘information’

JustCurio.us

08Nov08

As well as gathering data from friends and family, I decided to use Jonathan Harris’ website Just Curious to pose a question to the users. This allows me to ask random strangers in other countries about there feelings towards jelly beans. It won’t fully be useable,  but it may give me some great data to look [...]


 
This is a little diagram to show the number of people who voted for or against Proposition 8, in the state of California.  


Here is a ‘map’ of key words used most by Barack Obama in his victory speech.
Yes we can.


- Jelly beans are a type of confectionery that comes in many different (primarily fruit) flavors. They are small (the size of a red kidney bean or smaller) and usually have a hard candy shell and gummy interior. The confection is primarily made of sugar.
- The interior jelly may trace its origin back hundreds of years to a candy called Turkish Delight, while [...]


 
What are you mapping and how you have/are mapping it?
I will be mapping jellybean flavours, and the different reactions each flavour produces. I have asked 20 people about 20 flavours, recording their feelings and thoughts on each. These will then be split by flavour, sex, favorites and age.
How will it be visualised and what filters will you [...]


A Periodic Table Of Visual Methods.


Just a few mapping sites I’ve looked at. Theres more. But listing them all would be a bore : 

NewsMap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. The size of data blocks is defined by their popularity at the moment.

BigSpy – Digg arranges popular stories at the [...]


“Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans.”
- Digital Information Graphics
   (Matt Woolman)


- Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of man. Examples from history include cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek geometry, and Leonardo da Vinci’s revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engineering and scientific purposes.
- Information visualization concentrates on the [...]