Awesome awesome visualization of Inception. The more I think about and talk about the movie with others, the more I need to see it again.
(via Inception Infographic by ~dehahs)
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From the category archives:
Data Visualization
I recently came across Tonight.im, a clever little mashup that takes my data from my Withings Scale (highly recommended internet-connected scale) and maps it to my foursquare (highly recommended location-based service 
) checkins so I can visualize how some of the decisions I’ve made about the places I go – food, bars, cafes – may be impacting my weight gain/loss over time.
The interface is still quite spartan but the data seeds are there for some really interesting behavior analysis. I can’t wait to see where they take this service (they’re already teasing a Top Healthy & Unhealthy Places feature)
Sign up and keep an eye on Tonight.im.
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The team at Panic have rigged up this amazing (and beautiful) real-time display of the data immediately relevant to their team. Projects that fall in the cross section of dataviz and productivity really interest me. It reminds me a bit of the dashboard that Crispin Porter + Bogusky set up to visualize the health and status of their ongoing projects.
Here’s some info from the team at Panic:
What’s on the board?
The idea quickly grew beyond “Project Status”, and has become a hub of all sorts of internal Panic information. What you’re actually looking at is an internal-only webpage that updates frequently using AJAX which shows:
- E-Mail Queue — number of messages / number of days.
- Project Status — sorry for the heavy censorship — you know how it is!
- Important Countdowns
- Revenue — comparing yesterday to the day before, not so insightful (yet).
- Live Tri-Met Bus Arrivals — when it’s time to go home!
The Panic Calendar
- Employee Twitter Messages
- Any @Panic Twitter Messages — i.e., be nice! They go on our screen!
I highly recommend you head on over to their blog and read all about it.
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I love the idea of a map customized for what’s important to *only* you. The illustration style is perfect. I’m also a huge sucker for the giant blue whale which was my favorite place to hang out as a child. That and the dinosaur room. Check out the large version here.
(via kottke)
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Personas is an interesting installation from some folks at MIT that takes your first and last name and then uses your online presence to develop a high level persona for you. You can see mine above.
Here’s their description of how it works:
In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
I need to play around with this more but on the surface, it seems pretty neat. It practically loses all value if you don’t have a unique name (by Google’s standards).
Try it out and see what you think.
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Just the right amount of Stella Artois can make you feel like a star on the pool table but this is a whole new level of being in the zone. (ffd to 2 mins in to see what I mean)
(via Augmented Reality Pool – Henry’s posterous)
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