If you enjoy playing music on your PC with Windows Media Player (versions 9, 10, or 11) and you love Land Rover than this is something for you!
We have teamed up with the World Wide Land Rover team to develop a Windows Media Player Visualization as a free download!
You can download the file here. Just download the file and install it, additional details on how to get it to work can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/visualizations.aspx
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Land Rover Windows Media Player Visualization | Land Rover Blog
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
NYTimes testing crazy data visualization tool: [nytlabs] Project Cascade
description
Cascade allows for precise analysis of the structures which underly sharing activity on the web.
This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. While initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool and its underlying logic may be applied to any publisher or brand interested in understanding how its messages are shared.
Cascade was developed by R&D using open source tools including Processing and MongoDB.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Painting with light to show WiFi networks
WiFi is everywhere, floating and whirling around us somehow, but where is it really? In Immaterials: Light painting WiFi, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen use a rod of blinking lights to visualize signal strength in their college town.
In order to study the spatial and material qualities of wireless networks, we built a WiFi measuring rod that visualises WiFi signal strength as a bar of lights. When moved through space the rod displays changes in the WiFi signal. Long-exposure photographs of the moving rod reveal cross sections of a network’s signal strength.
The stronger the signal strength, the more lights that illuminate in that specific spot, updating as the walker/carrier moves. Then using long-exposure photographs, the lights are recorded for beautiful results. Super simple concept, yet very effective. See the device in action in the video below.
[YOUrban via @wattenberg]
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Google Opens Up Infographic Tools for Everyone's Use | Co.Design
Today, Google has opened up the tools on its Public Data Explorer, so that you can use them to chart any old data set you might have laying around. "If you're a student or a journalist or a teacher, you can upload your data and get the same visualizations that we have for our own product," Ben Yolken, Google's product manager for the Public Data Explorer, tells Co.Design.
The tools were first rolled out a year ago, after the company bought up the Gapminder Trendalizer, a bubble-chart data-viz technology invented by Dr. Hans Rosling, the infographics guru/health researcher/acclaimed TED genius.
[Dr. Rosling showing off the Gapminder Trendalyzer, upon which Google's Public Data Exporer is based]
Thus, on the PDE site right now, you can see all manner of amazing time-based data animations, such as the relationship between fertility and life expectancy in the last 50 years; 20 years of U.S unemployment data; and even STD transmission in the last 15 years.
[Dr Rosling show how rich the tools are]
Now, to use all these nifty charts, you just have to put your data into a special format developed by Google, which is adapted to each of these visualizations. Afterward, you can share that data with anyone you want as a Google Doc.