Daily Digest for 2009-02-05

twitter (feed #2) 11:12pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
@confid3ntial sorry missed footy last night! was it good?
twitter (feed #2) 11:13pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
back in work… not long enough after I left it!
twitter (feed #2) 11:30pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
@thegiftd not only Andi Peters but @Schofe as well… now where are those puppets!!
twitter (feed #2) 11:35pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
@confid3ntial gutting I got stuck in work… had a crazy couple of days
twitter (feed #2) 4:28am Posted a tweet on Twitter.
php5 you be damned
twitter (feed #2) 5:56am Posted a tweet on Twitter.
ok so blog is back , but lost all my images… going to go scouting for them in my backup!!
twitter (feed #2) 6:26am Posted a tweet on Twitter.
is nearly heading home to have a nice evening all to myself, bottle of wine… TV
twitter (feed #2) 12:25pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
Nice and quiet vening… That’s what I like…

upgrading….

system may be acting up shortly…

thats if I can get my FTP and WP and Host to all nicely work together

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Periodic Table For Visualization Methods

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This is a more detailed, but not as analytically minded version of the Choosing A Good Chart a document helping choose which chart.

The above version is posted as part from http://www.visual-literacy.org ”Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business”, it covers more than charting and touches into various different information delivery mechanisms.  Very Cleverly Done as the periodic table, completely interactive with examples.

Both are very good reference points for what is possible with data…

“subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound “

3 words from Obama’s Inauguration Speech…

Data, Statistics and Measurable…  

 

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Walmart Spread Like Wildfire

This is another amazing visualization using the Walmart data, it started with flowingdata doing a cool visualization, its then morphed into various others, the most recent and also pretty spectacular from MichaelVandaniker and shows the intensity of the spread in the same way as a wildfire spreads.

Amazing work…

Great Visualization Hybrid

I saw one of these on the side of a bus amidst a snowstorm this AM

 

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After some creating googling, I found the images and discovered what its all about… 

It is part of some great work by TBWA for the 2009 Grammy Awards, the strapline for the campaign is “Celebrate the Music that Makes Us” and with that in mind here is the advert and the artwork.

McCains Speech in Arizona

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Text Visualization of Obamas Victory Speech

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The World’s Press Reaction

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A fantastic graphic visualization of the worlds reaction to Obama and the election night.

Check it out and some of the headlines, and whoever put it together amazing


CNN Rock with Touch Screens

What I would do to get my hands on one of those sexy screens… I want one please Santa

These are the guys behind the technology Perceptive Pixel way to bring the technology to the masses.

Makes a change from some of these