January 30th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Gore TV aka Current is looking for an IPO in the region of $100m. Targeted (only ad execs could think of that word!) at ‘young adults’ which I think excludes me at a sybaritic 33, it has a visually arresting and intuitive interface.
Current claims to be the first ‘fully integrated television network’. Me? I don’t want to integrate I want to poke and prod and look at videos meshing together before my eyes and pretty ever changing statistics popping up before me.
Viewpoints is a thing of wonder, it’s a video facewall, when you click on a face a 1 minute video appears and you can browse by topics such as ‘Rich Ecopreneurs’ etc… It’s true peer to peer (human to human) interaction, people can quickly influence their peers by uploading their viewpoint.
I’m so impressed with it, I’m going to give it a category all of it’s own: design porn.
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January 23rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
‘Malwarez is a series of visualizations of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed, their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity.’ (via Information Aesthetics)
Does being able to visualize a computer virus make those appendage enhancements any less alluring?
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January 23rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
This is wordy, quite literally but well worth it, though one does wonder…why?
‘We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. The images for each word were obtained using Google’s Image Search and other engines. A total of 7,527,697 images were used, each tile being the average of 140 images. The average reveals the dominant visual characteristics of each word. For some, the average turns out to be a recognizable image; for others the average is a colored blob. The list of nouns was obtained from Wordnet, a database compiled by lexicographers which records the semantic relationship between words. Using this database, we extract a tree-structured semantic hierarchy which we use to arrange tiles within the poster. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 3rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Information aesthetics and data visualization are real eye candy… Digg does it again this time with Digg Pics.
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January 2nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Spam one-liners have never been so illuminating …. (via Information Aesthetics)
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October 4th 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Last day at FOWA and Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen gave an understated and blistering demo of their data visualization work for Trulia. He was kind enough to explain his trilby wearing, adamant that he started wearing one before Ryan Carson, further confirming my suspicions that this hat stuff is some signifier of a secret pixel mixing coven.
Eric wants to see ‘data visualization as a medium’ , like painting or sculpture. I’m already looking for a trilby on ebay (I have a big head, not deformed, just bigger than average) . Data visualization is an art form if done to the Stamen standard, and work we are inspired by at Fat Man.
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