April 7, 2010
Whispersync: Book Scrobbler
"Whispersync is to books as the audioscrobbler is to music. It is an implicit way to track what you are really paying attention to. The data from Whispersync will give us new insights into how people really read books. A chart that shows that the most abandoned author is James Patterson may steer readers away from Patterson and toward books by better authors. I'd rather not turn to the New York Times Best Seller list to decide what to read. I want to see the Amazon Most Frequently Finished book list instead."
Music Machinery
Music Machinery
February 9, 2010
The 2009 Feltron Annual Report
"Nicholas Feltron is a graphic designer based in New York City and the co-creator of the data-tracking website daytum.com." It all suddenly makes sense now.
January 30, 2010
Charting The Beatles
Without a doubt one of the most complex infographics projects currently doing the rounds, Charting The Beatles is a collaborative project creating visualisations as part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Both the level of detail of the data and they way they've decided to represent it is mind-bogglingly amazing.
January 24, 2010
Pink Floyd Timeline
Next level visualiation of Pink Floyd's output from 1960 through to 2000. Each band member's input is represented by a colour, and true to the bands slightly "acidic" overtones the whole thing is represented in a trippy, lava-lamp-like aesthetic. Beautiful stuff via We Love Datavis.
January 20, 2010
Big Retail Brands Smashing It On Facebook And Twitter
Everybody knows the story of how Dell conquered Twitter, but January 19, 2010
The United States Eats A Lot Of Data
34 gigabytes a day January 14, 2010
The Boston Common Colour Wheel
"Our software calculated the relative proportions of different colours seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel. The image below is an early sketch from the piece. Summer is at the top, with time proceeding clockwise." Created out of raw Flickr data by the kids over at HINT.FM.
January 13, 2010
Franco Moretti: Mining Print Data
"Take one experiment. Moretti decided to test the idea that Victorian writers, through their choice of adjectives, might reveal their belief that moral qualities were indivisible from reality itself and that physical traits reflected a person's virtue. So he assembled a database of 250 novels and sent the file to computer scientists at IBM's Visual Communications Lab, who turned the books into a series of word clouds. "Boom! There were exactly the adjectives I had hoped would pop up!" he says. "Adjectives like strong, bright, fair, in which the physical and the moral blend."
Wired
Wired