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Fabio Rex, Brazil based illustrator has a sweet collection of infographic illustrations about how to make a perfect drink.
From Manuel Lima, founder and editor of Visual Complexity comes a new book about mapping patterns of information. The Visual Complexity Book is promised to be far more than a showcase of projects from the VC Website.
The Coventry Partnership is the local name for Coventry’s Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). Its aim is to bring together combined resources, energy and creativity to meet the economic, social, physical and environmental needs of Coventry and the health and well-being of its people. The Coventry Partnership Board is made up of representatives from the public, [...]
Linked Open Data shows a lot of promise for visualization creators. This article introduces some core concepts and terminology.
Pinellas County, on Florida’s West Coast, is a 280-square mile peninsula bordered by the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay. The Health and Human Services Coordinating Council for Pinellas County works with funders and providers across the community to develop a human service system for citizens that provides seamless, high-quality care based on the best [...]
BibliOdyssey has a fantastic collection of vintage Victorian Infographics from the time between 1830 to 1890.
The Research Group at Cambridgeshire County Council has created a number of interactive atlases that combine local data with the social classification tool Output Area Classification (OAC). These have added insight into local areas across the county and provided a fresh approach for interrogating data that is held on resident populations. The interactive maps use [...]
The Bristol City Council Corporate GIS Support team is providing the council and the Bristol Partnership with an online resource to share intelligence, through maps, atlases, statistical reports and dynamic reports about life in Bristol and its neighbourhoods. We spoke to Mark Newman, Senior GIS Analyst, Bristol City Council to find out more about the [...]
Jessica Hische has created this lovely flowchart that makes it easier for creatives to decide whether they should work for free or not.
To celebrate Wikipedia's 10th Birthday Notabilia investigates the "Article for Deletion" discussions by the editors. The two interactive visualizations show the 100 longest discussions about articles that eventually got kept or deleted.
Just in time for Wikipedia’s forthcoming tenth anniversary (congrats!), two researchers – Dario Taraborelli and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia – approached me for a cooperation on visualizing the discussions around article deletions on Wikipedia. The (intermediate?) results are online at notabilia.net. I came up with a tree visualization, where Article for Deletion discussion is represented by [...]
Hello, We have released our first couple of InstantAtlas ‘Essentials’ videos for 2011 today. IA Essentials #12 – “InstantAtlas Knowledge Base” – http://bit.ly/dTDGc4 IA Essentials #13 – “How to set up drill down reports” – http://bit.ly/eillau If you would like to be notified about new InstantAtlas videos please subscribe at http://www.youtube.com/instantatlas Regards David
GE has teamed up again with the guys over at The Barbarian Group to create another fantastic video for The GE Show called Rebirth of Rails. The concept of dynamic breaking gets illustrated using super slow motion captures of colliding objects of varying weights.