You might have noticed the little video on the top right of our screen. We will be posting video interviews with interesting people Colin and I run in to. We will be adding more videos over the next few weeks. You will also be able to find them on our YouTube channel.
The first video is an [...]
Take a look at this superb interactive tool developed by The New York Times: A Peek into the Netflix Queue.
The principle is simple enough. The Times has taken a database of most rented movies from Netflix and overlapped it on ZIP codes on a Google map to create a geodemographic look at tastes and the [...]
On Sunday I wrote a small post about how UK company Prozone captures all English Premier League soccer matches on video and then uses that footage to create a database of every shot, pass, tackle and assist made by every player (according to a comment on that post Opta Sports are powering the Guardian Chalkboard [...]
Yesterday Landon Donovan tore up the right flank of the pitch at the Emirates Stadium and helped his new club Everton secure a draw against my beloved Arsenal. This morning one of the soccer blogs I follow showed this great visualization of Donovan’s impact on the game.
by Guardian Chalkboards
The graph shows Donovan’s completed passes [...]
CNN were the 1st network to use the Perceptive Pixel touchscreens to visualize data for the elections last year. I just saw they have a new article on data visualization on their site. They call it “the new way of looking at the world”. The article discusses the new tools that are making it easier to see [...]