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How well do acts fare after winning the fabled Mercury Music Prize? Make up your own mind.
Inspired by data at The Guardian Data blog
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jul/21/mercuryprize
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David McCandless
Monitoring wildfires from space is crucial for understanding their impact on climate, including the release of greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence Earth’s system.
This data-driven Little Picture uses satellite data to illustrate the annual pattern of burned area for European countries between 2001–2020. The size of each circle represents the burned area for the individual countries of Europe.
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This linocut of astronomer Caroline Herschel (16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) shows her and her own observations of comets, in dark black-gold and blue-black ink on lovely handmade Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 8.1" by 9.25" (20.8 cm by 23.5 cm). There are 12 prints in the hand-printed edition.
German-born Caroline Herschel, while overshadowed by her brother William (who discovered Uranus, amongst his other astronomical accomplishments), was a real pioneer as a woman in astronomy and made her own important contributions. In fact, she became the first salaried female scientist, when King George III hired her to assist her brother, at a time when there were few professional scientists anywhere. Hers was a real life sort of Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage was the expected role for a woman of her time, but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, and purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music, to prevent her from seeking employment as a governess. She wanted a perpetual unpaid maid. Her father sometimes managed to include her in William's lessons when their mother was absent. William had fled to England after the Seven Years War and made a life as a musician and composer in Bath. William managed to rescue his younger sister from their mother's clutches, under the pretext that she might have the voice to be a solo singer in Handel's oratorios, as she too was a naturual musician. Of course, he also wanted a woman to manage his batchelor household. Meanwhile, he developed a real passion for astronomy. So, by the time she arrived, all his spare time away from music was devoted to astronomy and she found that despite her singing talent, she was roped into assisting with the construction of telescopes, rather than receiving music lessons. By 1781, William had discovered a new planet - Uranus , which he cannily dubbed the 'Georgian Star' after King George III. This had the desired effect of securing himself a pension, so that he could spend his time on astronomy (so long as he would present it to the King when asked).
William and Caroline worked together at Slough, observing the night sky with a variety of telescopes. William built some very large telescopes and had Caroline take notes of what he observed, while she used smaller 'sweeper' telescopes to sweep the skies for interesting object. She discovered 11 nebulae (2 of which turned out to be galaxies) which were previously unknown! She also found 8 or 9 comets, as well as making and sharing observations of comets discovered by others. The portrait is based on a miniature of Caroline, as well as her own notes and diagrams from1 August 1786, when she discovered her first comet, now known as Comet C/1786 P1 (Herschel). On the left, her sketches of the object "like a star out of focus" which she correctly identified as a comet, is at the centre of the three circular diagrams labelled I, II and III. On the right, her Fig I and Fig II show her observations the following night, noting the possition of the comet relative to the constellations of Ursa Major and Coma Berenices.
She also independantly re-discovered Comet Encke in 1795, first recorded by Pierre Méchain in 1786. Later, in 1819, her observations help Johann Franz Encke recognize it was a periodic comet, like Halley's comet. Encke was able to calculate its orbit, partially due to her observations. The comet shown behind Caroline is based on a recent photo of Comet Encke, which returns every 3 years.
In order to calculate orbits of newly discovered comets, it was important to let other astronomers know as soon as possible. The letter post was often not fast enough, if the weather turned cloudy. She discovered her 8th comet while her brother was away. So, she took matters into her own mind. After an hour's sleep, she saddled a horse, and road the roughly twenty-six miles to the Greenwich Observatory of the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, much to his astonishment.
One of her important impacts on astronomy was that her early success showed her brother how even an amateur using a small telescope could find previously unobserved nebulae, and hence that there was real value in making systematic sweeps of the night sky. Partnering together, with William sweeping the sky with his 20 foot telescope and Caroline taking notes lamplight just inside the window, they went on to discover 2507 nebulae and clusters over two decades of work. Further, she acted as 'computer', doing the mathematical grunt work for her brother's observations. William's study completely revolutionized astronomy, and it couldn't have happened without Caroline's help.
They worked side by side nightly until 1788, when William married (at age 49). Caroline was no longer needed to run his household, and he offered her money as compensation. She, however, convinced him to request her own salary from the King, which she received. She moved to a cottage in the garden. She did a lot of her own observing for the next nine years (while William was otherwise occupied at nights), and gained more fame in her own right.
In 1797 the standard star catalogue used by astronomers was published by John Flamsteed. It was tough to use since it appeared in two volumes, with discrepancies. William suggested that a proper cross-refence would be a great help and a project for Caroline. She produced the resulting Catalogue of Stars, published by the Royal Society in 1798. It contained a index of all of Flamsteed's observed stars, all of the errors in his volumes and a futher 560 additional stars.
When William died in 1822, she returned to Hannover, where she was born, but she continued her cataloguing and confirming of William's observations. Her catalogue of nebulae aided her nephew John Herschel in his astronomical work. The Royal Astronomical Society presented her with their Gold Medal in 1828 for this catalogue. She was the first woman to receive the honour (and remained the only woman until Vera Rubin in 1996).
She and Mary Sommerville were the first women admitted to the Royal Astronomical Society, when they were elected Honorary Members in 1835. In 1838 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. In 1846, at age 96 she also received a Gold Medal from the King of Prussia, for her astronomical work (presented by none other than Alexander von Humboldt). An asteroid and moon crater have been named in her honour.
Scientometrics analysis: e-Research, e-Social Science, Digital Humanities 2000 - 2013. by @luiy. viz.oycib.org
International Women's Day (IWD) is held annually on 8 March to celebrate women's achievements throughout the world. Largely aimed at inspiring women and celebrating their achievements, its roots are in movements campaigning for better pay and voting rights, and this year mark's the movement's 100th anniversary. But, it seems, despite the hard work, women still don't face equality in many areas, including pay.
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Graphic by Tiffany Farrant
Infographic created from data in Latitude's "The Future of Gaming: A Portrait of the New Gamers" innovation study. Download the full study report (PDF) here. Explore Latitude's research initiatives online at: www.latd.com
Latitude is an international research consultancy helping clients create engaging content, software and technology that harness the possibilities of the Web. Contact: life-connected@latd.com
Infographic created by Latitude in collaboration with ffunction.
This doesn’t mean that a nation’s appetite for cosmetic surgery equates to true beauty. Venezuela, for instance – second place in terms of how many Miss Universe titles it has won – features twentieth in terms of surgical procedures being carried out in a nation.
So does selling breast augmentations, facelifts and rhinoplasty really make the world more beautiful? Maybe not, when beauty is only skin deep, it seems to be working wonders for the world of beauty pageants, at least.
Central data visualization piece in a Washington Post investigative series on military drones accidents since 2001. Interactive version can be found here: www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/20/when-d...
Social Media and the Psychological City
Social media are increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, from connecting with friends and sharing images to exploring cities through location-based applications.
Sites such as Foursquare and Facebook allow us to spatially mark our explorations in the city, creating rich databases that hold digital imprints of our interactions. To analyze these traces, the Foursquare and Facebook Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) were used to access location-based data to determine where social media users broadcast that they are “Here Now”. Analysis of this geographic data exposed the psycho-geography and economic terrain of New York City’s social media users.
Foursquare users tell us how they feel but they also provide valuable land use and economic information for cities where this information can be hard to obtain. These maps of Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and Tokyo allow us to compare how Foursquare users operate in these cities, but more importantly expose urban economic patterns that might not otherwise been seen.
Looking at these global cities provides a sense of how people travel around the city, where there are employment and commercial centers, and seasonal preferences – such as the indoor malls in Moscow. In Tokyo and Mumbai, the infrastructure of the transportation system is clearly visible as the nervous system of the city. Social Media can provide rich data about urban form and land use which is otherwise unavailable for many cities around the world – providing a new tool for research about how people respond and interact with cities in a way never before achieved.
Spatial Information Design Lab
Project Lead: Sarah Williams, Co-Director Spatial Information Design Lab
Research Associates: Juan Francisco Saldarriaga (Project Manager), Georgia Bullen, Francis Tan, Noa Younse, Bryan Valentini
Student Researchers: Fatima Abdul-Nabi, Adare Blumenfeld, Caitlin Hackett, Jen So Godzeno, Alex McQuilkin, Tiffany Rattray, Carlos Salazar Echavarría, Fred Sham, Nathan Tinclair
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying 'good morning' in English as well as several other languages.
The tweets appear as blocks and are colour-coded. Green tweets are early in the morning, orange tweets are at about 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black tweets are 'out-of-time' messages (sent at times that aren't in the morning at that location).
This is a capture from a video.
Built in Processing ( processing.org ) using Twitter4J, and a home-brewed client for MetaCarta's geo-parsing APIs.
For more information and to see a video, visit my blog - blog.blprnt.com
This is the A3 version (300 dpi) of the final uberinfographic. The uberinfograhic is an overview of over 365 beautiful infographics and visualizations. The core of this overview is an infographic in itself, a schematic that structures all infographics and visualizations.
It is estimated that 4% of the world’s diamond trade is in blood diamonds, which have cost the lives of around 4 million people.
Meanwhile, global diamond sales continue to grow and have increased three-fold in the past 25 years. Each year in excess of US$72 billion worth are purchased.
View full graphic on Meet The Boss TV
Graphic by T Farrant | Twitter @fallenblossom
They show the relationships between the 99 bowls of the exhibition. The squares on the left are adjancency matrices that reveal thematic clusters among the bowls. The ones on the right are relationship graphs based on a hexagonal grid.
Link to the exhibition: www.skd.museum/en/special-exhibitions/the-things-of-life-...
AMD’s main products include micoprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers. The company, which has long been dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions both at work, at home and at play, is now looking at 2010 as a key opportunity to build on the strategic changes the company has already made – and the way AMD is marketing itself has to play a part in that.
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Printed on brown kraft paper, about 120x150cm in size.
Link to the exhibition: www.skd.museum/en/special-exhibitions/the-things-of-life-...
Stress is a way of life in today’s overworked and Net-worked world. To beat the stress as well as rejuvenate, a power nap is perhaps the best way and companies like Nike & British Airways are all in favour of it. ET Magazine puts together some of its advantages
From the College Football Graphic History series. This full-color 24”x36” print narrates the tradition of Ohio State Buckeye football through sophisticated design, thorough analysis, and fantastic illustrations.
For more information, detailed images, and to order (only $24.00), see it in our shop.
In February 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued their ADDM autism report, which looked at a sample of eight year olds in 2000 and 2002. This report found that autism is increasing, with one in every 150 American children and almost one in 94 boys having the disability.
Full article: www.executivehm.com/news/autism-health-concern/
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infographic by Gabriele Corazza; Marco Pelà; Francesco Roveta
The Glocal Project is a massive contributive artwork. Two months before the launch of the project, we already have upwards of 8,000 submissions from more than 2,000 participants around the world.
One of the most challenging questions has been: how can we make sense of such a large collection of images?
These 'phylogenies' imagine how an anthropologist might attempt to build relationships between images in the Glocal Pool.
Through image analysis technology, each image in the pool is assigned a 'signature', which can be though of as the image's genome - the colours, composition, symmetry, etc. that define the image.
In these phylogenetic trees, pairs of images are 'bred' to produce offspring which could conceivably have been born from these parent images.
The result is a 'family tree' of images which attempts to invent a history inside of the large project pool.
For more information, check out my blog - http:blog.blprnt.com, or the Glocal website at www.glocal.ca.
This is a hi-resolution image. Please click 'all sizes' to see the original image.
Also, please consider joining the Glocal Project Pool - www.flickr.com/groups/glocal.
I am building a small visualization tool to look at the similarities and differences between two articles published in October about head injuries and the NFL:
"Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas - Oct. 10, 2009
www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200909/nfl-players-brain-demen...
"Offensive Play" by Malcolm Gladwell - Oct. 19, 2009
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_glad...
These are some early outputs from the system.
NBC logo visualized as a path in HSB color space.
Colors raise their necks at their respective hue level from a white sea where everything in the image communicates.
You can get the Processing source code in this blog post
Detail of illustrations from the Ohio State Buckeyes Football Graphic History poster. Poster features four beautiful renderings of influential figures in OSU football history.
For more info, check out the shop.
According to Forbes, despite two years having passed and the economy (by and large) showing serious signs of recovery, the retail sector continues to face a rather murky outlook. While the early, hectic post-crash devolution of the sector may have all but dissipated, hundreds of business remain on “high risk alert” and continue to “flash financial danger signs” – and its not just the retail sector who are feeling the brunt.
View full infographic and article at Meet the Boss TV
Graphic by T Farrant | Twitter @fallenblossom
Detail of title piece on Ohio State Buckeyes Graphic History football.
For more information and to order (only $24.00), see it in our shop.
With more than 280,000 employees worldwide, an aircraft fleet of over 650, more than 80,000 other assorted vehicles and an annual revenue of $35 billion, FedEx has come a long way since it was founded in 1973 with 14 small air-crafts delivering 186 packages.
Watch Tom Schmitt discuss how to optimize innovation for bottom line results.