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 [...]
I just came across this beautiful visualization of vessel movements on sea on visualcomplexity.com today. Not only is it a spectacular visualization that uses millions of datapoints, it is also very close to my heart as it shows shipping movement around the port of Antwerp, my hometown.
The graph below shows shipping movements around the nearby [...]
I had a very interesting conversation with David Huffaker last week. David just finished his PhD in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University, which makes him an expert in social media analytics, an exciting relatively new field.
David has analyzed behavior on social networks such as Google groups to get a better understanding of [...]
MIT’s media lab created this interesting application that builds your persona based on data it finds about you online.
It’s a very cool idea. Problem is that I ran my name twice and got very different results.