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Notes and links from @colemanm.
Mapping the Intangible »
My latest post on the @spatialnetworks blog — on the challenges of mapping socio-cultural fabrics.
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Derek Watkins put together this video visualizing the expansion of the United States from 1700 to 1900 through the establishment of post offices.
“1945-1998”
2053 nuclear blasts.
Manhattan taxi pickup locations visualized.
A beautiful example of spatiotemporal mapping.
Visualizing the landscape of “check-ins” at SXSW in Austin.
Using data from the Audioscrobbler API and Amazon, tuneglue can visualize webs of relationships around any artist in Last.fm’s data catalog.
GeoPlanet Explorer, a tool for browsing the Yahoo! geolocation hierarchical database, GeoPlanet.
The tool queries Yahoo’s GeoPlanet API for a WOEID of a “place,” which is Yahoo’s clever method of uniquely identifying any “location of interest” in the world, with something more loose yet more descriptive than just a lat/long. Passing a WOEID to the API returns lists of locations spatially-related to your search, like parent/child/sibling places and historical “ancestor” records.
The developer used YQL, YUI, and Yahoo Maps to put it all together. Check out the source code on Github for the full experience.
Fractal zoom.
/via kottke
Visualizing app development and code commits on Twitter using code_swarm.
Code and document changes are represented as points swirling around the users making the changes and repository commits. Makes boring version control look really cool.
The Eclipse IDE project has a really active community.
Try to figure out what data each map displays. I got 3 out of 22 correct (they’re not easy).
Isometric visualizer for Dwarf Fortress.
If you’ve seen the complexity of the Dwarf Fortress simulation, you’ll appreciate how insane this is.
Pulsating App Store wall at WWDC.
How to be happy in business.
