Its another one of the great NY Times visualizations, and whilst I have some mis-givings about its value, it still shows some wonderful trends just from a quick view of what is happening in NYC.

Take a look at it and see the trends between the Bronx and Manhattan, and the trends within Manhattan, some differences within Lower vs Upper Manhattan, as mentioned in the Arts Beat Blog Post on NY Times.

My mis-givings about this, whilst it is showing interesting trends for 2009 films by each individual title, it would be quite compelling to look at the aggregate for each genre, as I believe that would show even more significant differences, certainly within the NYC area, just a thought…

Information vs Confusion, too much or too little.

The right amount of information is key, information overload leads to confusion and no information breeds confusion.

A great little chart from Indexed who provide some thought provoking doodles.  Keep it up guys.

It gives a comprehensive view of the universe that is Twitter and its users, below are some of the key findings..

The full report can be found here it provides some interesting reading and cool analysis

I should really break myself into the Twitter API….

A little fun and tongue in cheek laugh at the NFL…

It breaks down the overall affect of his race, and what the change in records will be if other athletes achieve the same.

At one point in his race betwen 60M and 80M, he was running at 27.79MPH… WOW

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8205451.stm

This is a fascinating project developed by OriginsInfo, Experian and Geowise.

It provides a wealth of information about the geography and spread of names, both Family Names and Personal Names across the globe.  Below is details from mapyourname.com that details how they have done this.

“To create this website we have examined the names of 360,000,000 people currently alive in the United States, Australia and most of Western Europe. For almost all of these people Mapyourname will reveal the parts of the world from which their personal and family names originate.

For the 60,000 most common family names Mapyourname will show their spread not just at country level but right down to the level of individual regions. From these maps most of you should be able to pinpoint the ancestral heartland of your name, and your friends’ and colleagues’ names, the place where your distant blood relations live, the location of your genetic home.”

Excellent work that I can quite easily spend hours on looking around at where my friends and colleagues names are most popular.

It provides a funny look at fads and trends over time, and is very cleverly done, I also appreciated (maybe due to geekiness and lego-love) the most recent post on the blog that shares images of New York in Lego…  It got me thinking onto what else the simple lego bricks can be used to vizualize, so much so I might have to go buy some this evening just for the hell of it