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I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Visualization of the Earth's south pole and Antarctica from NASA. This image was created by a computer using information from several satellites - if you were in orbit, you would not see this...
Image source: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003400/a003402/index.html
It fascinates me to be aware of the fact that I can look at a visualization of mine, anytime. The surreal nature of such visualization becomes so real that it blurs the boundaries between a vision and (reality?), until we become stuck in a loop of not knowing when to wake up or when to believe.
Google's auto-complete - an incidental feature but always hilariously revealing about the deep concerns of the group mind.
I had a go at visualizing the query “How do I get my girlfriend / boyfriend to…” using the sweet tool Web Seer. See what you think.
More visuals here
Arranged in a matrix, the visualizations of the food data are structured from Simple to Complex [Axis 1 Left to Right] and Literal to Abstract [Axis 2 Top to Bottom].
This matrix was installed as part of the thesis presentation. Users are encouraged to document their interaction with the matrix using an "Experience Card" tracking which one they saw first, looked at the longest, thought was the most effective and thought was the least effective.
The idea of the matrix is create a live space for comparison and contrast of the different methods of visualization. When viewed one at a time, the human memory is unable to recall enough data from previous images to create a truly effective comparison.
Each image has a note attached that links to the full size version of that visualization. If they are driving you crazy, hover anywhere off of the image and lines disappear, or click on the image to go into another view with no notes. See it super large scale by viewing other sizes.
See the super huge orginial here
Feel free to leave comments with your reactions based on your experience (albeit a bit smaller than the real one)
Black crows on white snow background are a tough subject. I compensated full two stops for this picture. Even then, the head was too dark. So I run it through a tonemapping Photomatix filter. That helped to bring out much more detail.
I had to do some research but found an experimental instrumental the Beatles never published (I understand why now) but loved the title. It fitted perfectly with my trip to a festival over the long weekend.
Carnival of Light: Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey 1967 – unpublished
I thought the colours were suitably psychedelic for the era! The image spoke to me now: Panoramic Phone
This movie presents a visualization of the star-forming region known as S106. This unique three-dimensional view illustrates and emphasizes that many of the objects contained within astronomical images are not at the same distance, but, in fact, spread across light-years of space. The Hubble image is augmented with additional field-of-view from the Subaru Infrared Telescope. The stars and the lobes of glowing gas from the Hubble/Subaru two-dimensional image have been separated and sculpted using both scientific knowledge and artistic interpretation to create the depth in the movie. The relative distances between stars and the nebula have been greatly compressed. The format of this movie is a standard "2D" presentation and does not require a 3D screen or 3D glasses.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon, T. Borders, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D team, STScI)
In order to visualize the theme of insecurity in the whole educational field we firstly ran a deep analysis of the different schoolastic paths that an Italian student can walk from his/her first years to his/her entrance in the work market. We noticed that most of their choices are made after the high school, deciding for a job or an Univeristy, and facing the different courses option. Our choice to focus on public education is related to the shortage of information given from our sources about the private institutes.
The fragmented appearance of the visualization, its formless global image, reflects the confusion in which data are treated and offered from miur (the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) and istat (the most important and authoritative Italian statistics institute).
The first part of our visualization tries to show the complex relationships system (economic, didactical and decision-making flows) that makes possible the existence of the whole Public University System. In the second part we analysed the different academic paths from starting University to obtaining a master degree and in which way and misure academic careers are related to the real work world.
We also wanted to point out the precariousness of the academic situation and, as a consequence, how our visualization is logically correct only in the present. Our representation could not tell the same story in the next future; currently a lot of changes regarding the whole educational system have being discussed by the Parliament for an important reform proposed by the Minister Mariastella Gelmini (anyway we are not sure for how long she will be our Minister).
As a conclusion of this period of research and design, we face an unsolved question: is it possible that employement possibilities are the only factor that influences students’ choices?
Project by:
Monica Diani
Valerio Pellegrini
Tommaso Trojani
Giorgio Roberto Uboldi
Francesco Villa
www.densitydesign.org/course_projects/insecurity_systemdi...
Graphed in this image are all the items that were featured on the front page then sold within the day. It was generated from data spanning the last two weeks of September 2007 using a program written in Flash AS3.
Please view the original resolution.
Within the two week data period, Art is number one seller on the front page of Etsy, followed closely by Jewelry. Accessories and Paper Goods are nearly even, with the fifth most popular category being Bath & Beauty.
The most multiple quantity purchases are in the Toys category (my favorite statistic). Supplies is found at no. 8. Supplies is currently the number one selling category overall on Etsy but is ranked low in this graph probably because Supplies are seldom featured on the front page.
Errata: the second, smaller 'Toys' category is mislabeled, it should actually be 'Patterns'.
www.etsy.com is a marketplace to buy and sell handmade goods and is a company I helped co-found in June 2005.
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
The visualization illustrates, using official data exclusively, the Italian employment evolution from 2004 to 2010, comparing employed, unemployed and inactive population of the country, with the due subdivisions. The minimum and maximum peaks are underlined in order to faster understand the situation during the considered period of time. In the last part data from 2010 are compared to those of the other European countries. Moreover, we have made a focus about the 15-34 years old population, analyzing the available data and reproducing, through the metaphor of the solar system, the actors system, the flows, the relationships through which each actor faces, in order to represent the dynamics against which they come up, through their journey from education conclusion or abandon to employment, with all the possibilities in-between and until the retirement moment.
Observing the infographics in its entirety, it emerges that in Italy the work force decreases, against the increase of the over-64 population, that needs the support of the welfare state.
Project by:
Alessandro Dallafina
Francesco Faggiano
Stefano Greco
Marco La Mantia
Simone Paoli
www.densitydesign.org/course_projects/insecurity_systemdi...
Analog Photography of 2011 with virtual framing/ Fotografía analógica del 2011 con enmarcado virtual.
Visualization of Flickr geotagged photos, uploaded between 2007 to 2015 and geotagged with the highest accuracy (street-level). I generated a number of different visualizations.
Here is an animated version of this map
Created as part of my research project (maps.alexanderdunkel.com).
The national health care system aims to improve the health and lives of citizens through care activities, education and prevention. Italy has a publically owned health system, offering a high level of training for people involved in the medical, nursing and research and technology fields.
These principals emerge in comparison with other countries from outside the European Union.
The professionalism of the system is reflected in the quality of the infrastructure and services offered. Are we dealing with a National Health care system or are we dealing with Regional or Local health care systems? Our research is born from these questions and attempts to describe the economic/welfare issues that revolve around this topic. Through analysis of the data, supported by the National Insitute of Statistics, we have mapped out a logical path, that describes the proposed offer made by the public service comparing investments, infrastructure and guaranteed benefits.
We have then moved onto the user's requests, focusing our interest in particular on the perception of the Health service and the most common types of diseases to discover the causes and connections and the complexity that surrounds them. The emerging reality reveals the presence of multiple health systems, with deep territorial differences, at a regional and even provincial level. The overall picture of the system is one of a system structurally complex and fragmented, that is not always clear in its interactions and communications with citizens.
Project by:
Felipe Alejandro Ospina Borras
Stefano Cotzia
Jacopo Marcolini
Davide Martinotti
Xuan Wu
www.densitydesign.org/course_projects/insecurity_systemdi...
This project starts from the analysis of the data provided by the institutional bodies (Home Oce and ISTAT) in the field of public safety and from the desire to represent the theme of physical security as is socially treated. Ocial sources deal with this topic considering a purely legal side: provided data are those related to the reported crimes' type and number, related to the place in which they are committed and relative criminal actions. The reference year is 2005, the most “recent” for which it is possible to establish a cross-comparison between data. The project was developed, on one hand, in order to show the judicial apparatus' functioning and numerical data about crime, on the other hand, to highlight all the elements missing in social analysis, which are though very important to understand the complexity of the topic. The city is structured on the political and social hierarchy: the state, institutions, citizens. In this context, relations between the parties and their influence on physical safety are therefore perceived. In order to represent the classes of crimes and the system of convictions and sentences, the metaphor of Dante's Inferno has been chosen. At the same time, the image of an underground machine, consisting of pipes and gears, explains the criminal justice process' stages, showing its complexity. Where, therefore, insecurity creeps into? In the amount of citizen who decide not to press charges, in the disproportion between the reported crimes and the convicted criminals, in weakness and finally in the imposed penalties, in a panorama that shows difficult paths and seems to tell to those who have to deal with it: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here”.
Project by:
Federica Bardelli
Alessandro Marino Giuseppe Brunetti
Gabriele Colombo
Giulia De Amicis
Carlo Alessandro Morgan De Gaetano
www.densitydesign.org/course_projects/insecurity_systemdi...
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
In late summer 1957, Darwin Lambert bought himself a battered Willys pickup. Darwin was two years into an effort to create a National Park in Nevada’s Snake Range. That effort, ultimately successful, would take another thirty years.
The pickup featured a crude, homemade stake bed meant to carry a single horse as far into rough country as the Willys could be driven...at which point the horse came into play. Only Darwin did not want to carry a horse. For one thing, he wanted to explore the Snake Range...to rediscover its forgotten wonders. But, more importantly, he wanted to take people there. He wanted them to see for themselves.
Nowadays we might call this a “low-tech” enterprise. A ‘50’s Willys pickup was not much larger than a modern 'side by side' ATV. There was a cramped cab for a driver and one passenger to sit shoulder to shoulder. Maybe four adults could wedge into the open-air bed, alternately facing to front and to back across the tight width, saddle blankets for a cushion. Anyone who did not know their seatmates at the beginning of the day, would know them pretty well by the end. Darwin took them up dusty mining tracks so narrow and rugged and tightly laid-out that he sometimes had to drive forward up one switchback and then in reverse up the next. At the top, in the eleven-thousand foot sunshine, there would be a picnic. Among his notable passengers were conservationists David Brower, Adolph Murie, and, husband and wife, Olaus and Mardy Murie.
Of course others, over the years, have been and are drawn to this same site; miners, surveyors, fire crews, government employees, scientists, hunters, pilgrims. The evidence of their transient presence takes the form of scattered rusty cans and colorful, translucent, green and blue and lavender shards of broken glass -- tokens of an era before plastic and aluminum.
I like to think that Darwin and his dusty, sunburned band of hearty passengers picked up a lot of this litter and hauled it back down the mountain, clinking and rattling between their knees in the stainless steel milk buckets that had carried the picnic up. (Visualizing this, so help me, I hear banjos.) The less the better, for, in this era, such rusty, weathered items strewn randomly across a landscape are often seen as something other than just stuff that needs to be picked up. Fact is...one picks it up at their own peril. Being a good citizen is always complicated.
In September of 1995, while researching his book “A Garden of Bristlecones”, Michael P. Cohen met Ron and Charlie. Cohen was interested in visiting the bristlecone groves of Troy Peak in Nevada’s Grant Range. John Muir had walked from the High Sierra to this grove in 1878 and had been impressed in a timber-cruiser sort of way by the health and vigor of the trees, claiming some to be over eighty feet tall. (Ron generously guessed that this was just “hyperbole”.)
Cohen had been directed to Ron and Charlie by the Forest Service which had jurisdiction over the area. According to the Forest Service, Ron and Charlie were, “retired fellows, fifty-five or sixty, but good walkers, all legs and lungs.” They had been trail and backcountry buddies since high school. Forest Service volunteers in the Grant Range now, they had “stayed out there from spring until the water froze” since 1989.
In that time, they had tidied things up a bit. Beneath the pine trees of the canyon, they had built a couple of primitive campsites of native stone -- providing a fire pit, a tent site, and perhaps a large boulder for sitting or a place to put a campstove. They hand-graded the rocky, one-lane, bulldozer track leading into their canyon below Troy Peak and, by Cohen’s count, dug “more than twenty-five” waterbars to channel cloudburst runoff. And Cohen found no litter -- none -- neither in the campsites nor along the two or three miles of rugged canyon track. As Cohen points out, for all their efforts Ron and Charlie never received a dime...nor did they ever expect anything. What they did was its own reward.
There had been an old sawmill near the end of the track -- all that remained of it was mostly rust-eaten sheet metal, and old tools without handles, and bed springs -- and Ron and Charlie had wanted to clean that up too, but the Forest Service would not let them. Ron told Cohen that the Forest Service said it was an “archeological” site. Sometimes the detritus at such sites is referred to as 'artifacts'. It is illegal to disturb so much as a bent nail.
Cohen is something of a scholar with a science and history wonk. If you read his books, you will sense at some points his distinct discomfort with what he has described as “overly expressive language”. So it is a bit whimsical and genuinely touching when he tells the story of Ron and Charlie as an afterword to his book.
In his closing words:
“It just seems there is always somebody who surprises you, who knows more than you do, who knows more than you will ever know about a place, knows how to be there, and why to choose it. And is so completely open and generous with his time and knowledge.”
Cohen never describes it as such, and I’m pretty sure Ron and Charlie would demur, but I think what they created could be thought of as a sort of Zen garden. An orderly, contemplative, place in the heart of a remote, wild range. A place one might want to be...not so much to sort things out, but because one had already sorted them out.
I do not know what ever became of Ron and Charlie, but on July 20, 2014 the Bear Trap wildfire began with a lightning strike on the ridge just south of the camp they built. Driven by the prevailing south wind, it was not reported for two days. In the end, after being fought by 200 personnel including bulldozers and helicopters, the thirty to forty foot flames essentially just burned themselves out, consuming over ten thousand acres of the land Ron and Charlie loved. The heart of that country now nothing but ashes and stone, the worst was yet to come.
In the first two weeks of August, during what is known locally as 'monsoon season', there were four 100-year rain storms, dumping cloudburst after cloudburst into Ron and Charlie’s narrow, burned-out canyon. What can comfortably be referred to as a biblical torrent of churning mud and debris raged down the length and out the mouth of the canyon. Watching from the safety of an overlooking plateau as this cataclysm spread out across two miles of desert floor, one seasoned veteran of such things, the ground shuddering beneath his feet, described it above the rumble and roar with a single heartfelt word…”Scary!”
The upper canyon is now barren, many places almost impassable. In six seasons, Ron and Charlie had never seen a single drop of water in the dry creekbed. Now it is a raggedly stark, boulder-strewn, violent, gash...six to eight feet deep in places. The rusted sheet metal of the 'archaeological' millsite was rolled into a ball by the tumult and dropped into an erosion hole.
Somewhere Ron and Charlie must be enjoying the fact that, while no one now at the Forest Service remembers them, the only recognizable 'archaeological' sites that remain in the canyon are the stone campsites they built by hand. They must also be comfortable knowing that the whole cycle will likely repeat in a mere 150 years. (How an ancient bristlecone lives through thirty or more such cycles is a story for another time.)
'Microtrash' (not to be confused with 'microplastics', the 'nano' version of which are now accumulating in your brain.) refers to small bits of litter such as broken glass, bottle caps, can tabs, and other smaller, broken down pieces of human debris. It is the sort of stuff that lies scattered around at Lambert’s picnic area and the remnant millsite near Ron and Charlie’s camp; Ron and Charlie picked up everything else. Archaeologists consider such stuff to be artifacts. As with arrowheads, it is illegal to disturb or possess artifacts.
Places where microtrash is found at elevation are sometimes designated as 'Cultural Historical Areas'. Great Basin National Park has such an area at 10,700 feet not far from Lambert’s picnic area. Accessible only by a steep, rugged, former jeep trail, it was the site of a World War I Era tungsten mine that scraped sporadically by for two or three decades and was eventually abandoned when an avalanche shoved most of the rudimentary machinery into a sub-alpine lake.
The Park has lavished considerable time and funding ($500,000+) on having archaeologists paw through the trash middens of this site and on propping-up the crude seasonal shanties where miners slept and ate, as well as a rickety mill wall or two. Basically, they have learned nothing they either should not have already known, or could not have learned from hundreds of other more accessible sites in Nevada alone. Their plan going forward is to spray these remnants with wood preservative and cut down all trees within a certain defensive radius.
One hundred years of National Park Service culture, beginning with Army-recruit rangers, is probably as good an explanation as any for the fascination this remote area holds for them. From that perspective, its crumbling, propped-up, rudimentary structures could be perceived as a monument to real outdoorsmen, doing real work, building real things, dominating an unruly land -- it serves as a ramshackle, rough and ready, derelict, reminder of an era when a man could take whatever he desired. It does not hurt that this taking was on behalf of a war effort -- the tungsten was used primarily in the manufacture of armor-penetrating munitions, literally going from wilderness to war. It is a scar in a pristine wilderness setting that the Park Service chooses, at great expense, to not let heal. It is fair to wonder what their interest would be if it were simply a quiet place where pioneer women went to knit.
In an ironically timely twist on the social admonition 'No Means No!' as it applies to contemporary male Park Service Rangers, visitors to the remote area will be reminded that artifacts are to be left untouched.
The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife is also concerned about artifacts. It is concerned that condors are attracted to artifacts and ingest them, sometimes regurgitating the colorful detritus for fledglings to ingest, both with often fatal results. Fish and Wildlife asks that you help contribute to the success of their Condor Recovery Program by picking up such microtrash in areas where condors occur.
A few years ago, I left my Snake Range camp before first light to get an early start on a day above 11,000 feet that I knew would be mentally and physically exhausting. I was camped in an area I call 'The Maze'. It is a dark, absolutely silent, densely forested area, jumbled chaotically by thousands of years of glacier and avalanche and rockfall and fire and erosion -- a vortex of violent natural forces. I have spent a lifetime picking my way comfortably through untracked wild country; 'The Maze' is the only place I have ever lost (and eventually found) my basecamp. I accomplished this dubious feat in the same area twice. The second time, apparently, just to confirm it was actually possible.
Many hours later, my turnaround time well past and weather moving in, I chose to forego a potential ridgetop thunderstorm at 11,700 feet and return to camp by way of a lower elevation valley I had wanted to explore. This would entail following the valley down to its forested terminus before contouring either up and over, or around, a high spur through thickets of tangled manzanita and mountain mahogany and across loose fields of rockfall. If the other side were passable, I would find myself in the lower reaches of 'The Maze' and could probably make my way across it, and back to camp by dark.
An hour or two later, having crested the spur and threaded my way down through steep, jagged outcrops on the other side, I reached 'The Maze' at twilight. Darkness approaching, my camp on the other side of 'The Maze', I was beginning to feel a rising sense of urgency. I also needed water -- both to drink and to resupply my camp.
As I neared the area of a spring I knew and was coming up over a rise at the edge of a forested area, about to emerge into a small, steep, open meadow, I saw in the distance...a person.
He was standing, in profile, by the spring -- a distant, dark silhouette. Against the darkening backdrop, I could make out only his torso and head. With his back to the spring, he seemed to be vigorously adjusting a pack placed on the eroded bank before him, perhaps stuffing something into it. I absolutely could not understand how I could possibly encounter another human being in this remote and isolated place, at this time.
I stood still, silently hoping he would not see me and move on. From his movements, he appeared to be wearing, or perhaps putting on or taking off, a baggy black nylon windbreaker with white panels on the underside of the sleeves, maybe continuing down the sides. Pulled tightly over his head was a dark knit cap. On the shoulder visible to me, was a round patch, some sort of insignia. It might have been a team jacket. For some unknown reason, all this made me think he must be European, a soccer fan.
Hearing a soft rustle behind me, I instinctively glanced back, recognizing it as a cone slipping down through the boughs of a pine. Turning again to the spring, the person was gone. Immediately above where he had stood a great winged creature rose silently into the air, quickly disappearing over distant trees.
I would like to be able to simply say that, in that stunningly transformative, shape-shifting instant, I began to consciously understand and rationally confirm that all ancient mythologies were created by individuals who were, at the very least, completely exhausted. The truth, more complex in myriad ways, is that the experience was, to say the least, deeply unsettling.
I finally decided that it must have been an eagle or a hawk consuming prey. At the spring, I found nothing. Later, while no stranger to returning in the dark, it was the first time I could not find my basecamp.
Farfetched as it may initially seem, I have come to believe that what I saw was a condor: white underwings, smooth head, identifying 'shoulder patches', an inclination of the species to clean themselves by a water source after feeding.
Condors are, in fact, quite near the Snake Range and, if they are not visiting already, could be expected to do so in the near future. Condors are routinely capable of soaring 150-200 miles per day. The Vermillion Cliffs, the Arizona release site for Fish and Wildlife’s Condor Recovery Program, is 180 miles from the Snake Range; Zion National Park, where a released pair is nesting, is 140 miles; Milford, Utah, where condors have been sighted, is 75 miles. One condor flew 330 miles to Flaming Gorge, Wyoming. Others are confirmed to have flown 150 to 250 miles in all directions from Vermillion Cliffs.
So this rambling, convoluted, tale comes down to a quandary:
The brute, obliterating (and creative), vicissitudes of Nature and Time aside, what is a responsible individual or agency to do about all that relict trash?
Or, for that matter, about the oldest living individual trees on the planet; on top of everything else, ravished and pillaged for decades by scientists and souvenir seekers -- yes, even in the National Park created to protect them. Even now.
On the short-term anthropocentric scale, both relict trash and ancient trees would seem to qualify as no more than scientific curiosities. On the long-term philosophical scale, they would seem to be a choice between a fleeting past and a distant future; as choices go, probably the most gnarly kind considering that humans neither learn from history nor can predict the future.
The US Dept. of Fish and Wildlife thinks condors are more important than relict trash. Is relict trash more important than relict trees? Regardless, neither relict trash nor relict trees nor remnant condors can tell us anything we should not already well enough know.
As for me, I am well aware that all of the above, while wholly true, bears a striking resemblance to a shaggy dog story. For, as everyone knows, 'one person’s trash is another's treasure'.
To wit: Disintegrating in gracious, anonymous, solitude somewhere beneath the intense Nevada desert sun, a rusting sardine tin in the remnant bed behind its windowless cab, is Darwin’s Willys pickup. Now there is a treasure!
May it rust in peace...
This is the first photograph I’ve made visualizing, and composing it as a Polaroid Lab print *before* snapping the photo. Aside from the magenta color drift (which I’ll regard as the film’s own contribution to our “collaboration”, this came out exactly as intended, based on how I thought the medium would behave. Snapped with the DXO One, shooting freehand (doubtless the black/white preview informed the composition), and printed to I Type Polaroid color film with the Polaroid Lab. #rodeobeach #marinheadlands #itypefilm #polaroid #polaroiditype #polaroiditypefilm #instantandimperfect #polaroid #polaroidoriginals #polaroiditype #film #polaroiditypefilm #polaroidcommunity #polaroidcommunity #polaroid #instantfilm #polaroidsnotdead #polaroidaesthetic #polanoid #lofiphotography #mypolaroidnow #dxoone #polaroidlab #rhettredelingsphotography
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
This visualization shows the wave functions of hydrogen when the principal quantum number, N, is between 1 and 4. The wave function is the solution of the Schrödinger equation and describes the electron in its wave form. Yellow and red colors show positive, while blue and purple denote negative values. Its complex square is the probability density, which actually shows where the electron might be found in the atom when measured.
That visualization can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/188522613@N05/49919882786/in/datepo...
Update: 2020/06/22: A 16k version is now available.
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Vizualization of "Management of Complexity":
We call a technical system complex (in contrast to complicated) if it is impossible (due to the networked interaction of its components) to predict the behavior of the whole system, even if you know exactly how each of the system components behave.
The sculpture visualizes a complex system which consists of a network of simple
components. The sculpture is designed in a way that there exists no single angle of view which would allow you to see all components - some are always hidden by others.
This brings to my mind a visit of the famous Chinese gardens in Suzhou, where my colleague Tang Bao explained to me that these gardens are designed in a way that the garden always looks perfectly composed from all the infinitely many angles of view along the path leading through it.
Rotate, zoom, see music from the back online: martonborzak.com/music
Music visualization generated with processing. Basically turning the two dimensional description of music into 3D.
Ferenc Liszt - Hungarian Rapsody No. 2.
This is a visualization of the frequency of the words 'iran' and 'iraq' in New York Times articles since 1981.
This visualization reads like a clock. You can see the Iran Contra Affair at about 2:30. The first gulf war is at about 4pm. The second Iraq invasion is the biggest spike starting at about 9:30, continuing up until the current day (midnight).
Interestingy, Iran (in red) shows a large increase in activity in the months leading up to the end of 2008.
Built in Processing (http://www.processing.org)
Visualizing the chemical composition of Earth's crust was done through scaling the volume of each sphere according to the mass each element relative to the total mass.
The mass of each element in Earth's crust is printed in the bottom right corner in parts per billion by mass.
Source: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 97th Edition, (2016-2017)
This is a visualization of the frequency of the words 'regulation' and 'innovation' in New York Times articles since 1981.
This is a timepiece graph and can be read like a clock - 1981 is at 12:01am and January 2009 is at midnight.
Built in Processing (http://www.processing.org)
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA