Google is just blowing my mind this week with all the fun things they are releasing. It’s really just been a busy week for Google which is all part of their annual I/O developers conference. As part of the conference, we can now add on another neat thing to the list - the Evolution of the Web.
I can’t say how impressed I am with Infogr.am, which is a startup that is focusing on making the art of Infographics so easy a monkey could do it. As TNW points out, making infographics takes time and effort, and most people don’t have that especially when publishing on the go.
If you are a reader of the NY Times, or maybe just ever thought how they come up with their articles which often times contain interactive graphics and story telling illustrations, you will want to see this video. In the video, it covers how information comes into play when reporting, through diagrams, charts and different kinds of media.
When it comes to Twitter, finding out what’s happening around your tweets and your interests is sometimes tough to do. Twitter has become less about social networking and more about social publishing and content consumption. I like to consume news and see what’s happening around me through Twitter, so as a whole it’s a great tool but needs some tweaking to hone in on your interests.
1000 people in Britain were asked questions about their sexual experiences and preferences such as, what is the favorite sexual position of iPhone owners? The answer appears to be; doggy style! The questions are explicit, but it’s a fun interactive survey put together by the Sexperience website from the Sex Education Show. In the interactive survey you can filter by gender, age, status, car, phones and more to really get a good sense of users sexual preferences. The Sexperience is very granular with lots of hidden details and information worth checking out.
Check out this impressive interactive website called Peoplemovin. It was published last month and is an experimental project that visualizes migration across the world.
I just learned that Facebook has over 10k code modules in their code base! I also learned that Facebook’s codebase is written almost entirely in PHP, a language that I have a tough time understanding but have used in the past on a basic level to write some cool generators. Greg Schechter, an engineer at Facebook decided in an attempt to better understand the code interdependencies in the codebase, that he and other engineers would have a hackathon to create a tool to help visualize the codebase. As with most people, visualization helps tremendously when trying to understand something.
When the tsunami hit Japan after the record breaking earthquake in March, a lot of global reaction was via Twitter. After the tsunami came the nuclear radiation issue. This also has been reacted to on Twitter. 500 million tweets have been sent in reaction to the Fukushima disaster. With all that data, Social Intensity created a visualization of all the tweets globally. The visualization is a parallel of radiation intensity and the social impact in response to it on Twitter.
In Norway, Timo Arnall, Jorn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen started a very unique way to visualize Wi-Fi signals which normally can’t be seen by the naked eye. The project is called Immaterials: Light painting Wi-Fi. The group is able to bring Wi-Fi to life by using a 13 foot rod with lights that illuminate when their is a signal. The rod lights up at different levels depending on the signal strength. The group used long-exposure photographs to capture the Wi-Fi images.
Wow, my ears just got blessed. No wait, my eyes too. Huh? Yeah! I just got musically and visually mashed up. First things first, thank you Five Nerds for sharing this. I am so glad they did. After viewing and listening to mashupbreakdown.com I just fell in love with a new music site. It has awesome tracks all mashed together. To top it off, it has a visual graph as the song goes progresses showing you what songs are being mashed together.
According to a three year observation and data mining project made by Northeastern University and Harvard University, people of the U.S. are most happy in the morning and the evening. This of course is inferred by people who use Twitter.
Hans Rosling tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. Via BBC.
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