Infographic of the Swine Flu - H1N1 FluTracker Data by Rhiza Labs, LLC

Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu.



This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map is compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions and updated multiple times per day.

Rhiza's web-based mapping product, Insight, is helping Dr. Niman get official and unofficial data into the tracking system faster while giving researchers and the public many options for viewing the data in a useful and understandable way.

New visual identity for Universiteit Twente

University of Twente (or Twente University) located in Enschede, Netherlands, offers research and degree programmes in technology, and in the social and behavioural sciences. Studio Dumbar was approached to develop the visual identity
and Buro Knapzak developed this experimental motion piece.

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Who am I? Ask the Internet - Personas

Personas or Metropath(ologies) is an installation by Aaron Zinmanis.



A component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

via CrossTheBreeze

Don't quite get the medical connection :) — but heck the internet is always right thought, ain't it. Sure must agree with Bnox, watching the data being crunched was very impressive.

Data visualisation of a social network

For his final year project in information design, Felix Heinen created an amazing set of visualizations of different aspects of a social network. Two big (200 x 90 cm - 80 x 36 inches) posters show the variety and attitudes of members from an internet community like MySpace.

On the first poster you can see the functions used, as well as additional information, such as age, educational background, family status, gender and how often they are logged in. In a glimpse, a view into the key demographic data available for every member's profile.

The second poster gives you an overview of the geographic location of all members, based on a world map. The aim was to provide the management team with a visualization tool that would allow a better understanding of the community members, rather than a just a simple scan of their database. Felix has also developed a flash based interactive tool that allows users to navigate through all the collected data.

Project presentation

Collective voice

A social, public display of crowd moods & feelings during an large-scale event: people send SMS to a special number and the messages are then displayed with a tree-like generative graphic software. As soon as a new message arrives a new branch blossoms. as the event unfolds, layers of texts gradually build up a flowing foliage of collective memory.

Valueables: infosthetics, todotoit flickr, www.todo.to.it & we-make-money-not-art

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Research Chronology by Aaron Siegel
“Research Chronology is a chronological visualization of bookmarking activity, powered by information retrieved from the del.icio.us social bookmarking web site. Users are invited to enter their del.icio.us username and password and allow the visualization to map out their research activity along a time line, connecting posts together with tag lines.”

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