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How awesome is this map of New York City? It makes me want to jump in and ride it.
Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They’re intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.
Buy one here.
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With just a snippet of extra code, get a great looking report on how mobile users are accessing your site. Here’s a look at a full report. (via teendrama)
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Karen and I recently took a fun introductory wine class (The Elements of Wine) at Astor Wines. They’ve got a really great setup over there:
(Reminded me a bit of Kitchen Stadium)
This was the lineup of food we’d be pairing with our wines. Loved the interactive voting setup (see remote on right) as much as I love the prosciutto.
Towards the end of the class they gave us a printout with different wines plotted on two axes alongside foods that they pair well with for both red and white wines (PDF).
Apart from being a really useful tool when learning about different wines (I’m cropping the images and syncing them to my phone for use on the go), I thought the visualization was well-executed and made a complex set of information and relationships pretty clear.
I highly recommend you check out all of their wine and food classes. They make a great gift, too.
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Along similar lines, though not nearly as visually impressive, as Dopplr’s Annual Report, I noticed today that the Nike+ site gives you the option to get a “rundown” on 2008. Check out mine above. Seeing this now makes me upset that I took a few months off from Nike+. Damn you, wasted data! (If a run happens and Nike+ doesn’t capture it, did it really happen?)
It’s great to see so many people finally realizing that you can be clever about the data you’re collecting from the ongoing usage of your product. Giving this kind of info back to your users, if done right, can go a long way towards strengthening their connection with your product. Nike could have gone a bit further (and I bet they will next year) but this is definitely a step in the right direction.
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My mind = blown.
If you’re into this kind of stuff, please go check out the rest.
On that note, Information Aesthetics looks like a mighty fine data viz blog. Gonna give it a home in my Google Reader Purgatory folder and see how it fares.
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