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September 12th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous, ready

Visualizing the Local Impact of Unemployment & Recovery

I guess that what impressed me most about this graphic was how fast it was published. The president’s speech was delivered on the 8th and I learned about the graphic (from Development Seed) the next day via ReadWriteWeb.  But that’s what happens when the data is there and the tools that[...]

September 9th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Miscellaneous

Discover Your Twitter Character on Visual.ly (fun)

So this is one of the beginning offerings of the much anticipated Visual.ly web-based visualization service. there was much posturing of this service, the actually launch of which left much to be desired, in my opinion, but still much to be anticipated. Here, for fun, is a tool that you can use to c[...]

September 5th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous

The Overworked American

It’s Labor Day and I felt that it was important to point you to an infographic related to labor in America.  The image to the right was a bit difficult to find.  There’s another one out there, that, though it is quite informative and apparently well sourced, it is posted by a credit ca[...]

September 2nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous

Dirty and Otherwise

OK, for the fun of it, what words are used most often in the titles of the top ten highest grossing films per year in the U.S. from 1921 to 2010.  It’s a burning questions that is almost certainly trending in the socialverse!  Well, here’s the answer (to the right). From Very Small Arr[...]

August 26th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Visualizations, Miscellaneous

Google Map Maker edits in real-time

Google Map Maker is one those ideas that probably came out of the innovative company’s 80-20 work policies.  This one empowers people to create their own maps over Google Maps, and then share them.  The reason that I am including the too here is the inclusion of Pulse View.  Click in and wa[...]

August 12th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Visualizations, Humanities, Miscellaneous

Google Hotel Finder Shines a Tourist Spotlight on US Cities

I found this one via Infosthetics, but got more details about it from the Google blog, Inside Search. It’s a new Google experiment called Hotel Finder, and it is arguably not an infographic. I’m including it here because this is an interesting intersection between raw data and visualizat[...]

August 5th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous

60 Seconds – Things That Happen On Internet Every Sixty Seconds [infographic]

It’s getting harder to find infographics that are just plain fun.  This one is, but it also delivers a message.  We are engaged in a highly technical and computerized world.  But what surrounds us is conversation.  We tweet, blog, Face, Poster, YouTube, and much much more, and it’s p[...]

July 22nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous

Netflix favorites by location (fun)

My wife takes her long walks in the morning. It’s a more creative time for me, so I take mine in the afternoon (suffering the heat). She often comments how she sees so many people stepping out to their mail boxes in the early hours to slip those bright red envelops in to be picked […][...]

July 15th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous

Is There Alien Life Out There… on Earth? (fun)

Is it you, or me, or him, or her? Who among us are aliens — extraterrestrials, not from this earth. It seems that lots of people believe that aliens walk among us, and that there is a fairly distinct geographic profile to those beliefs. This graphic illustrates not only the percent of males an[...]

July 8th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities, Miscellaneous

Tweet-o-Meter

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding what might be instructionally valid and what’s just for the fun of it.  This one is fun, but it also gives us a unique view of ourselves — our world. Here’s a note from the creator, Stephen Gray: My newest creation into crowd sourcing this wee[...]