Lecture-01-26
Projects we looked at
- Colorshift (Caryn Audenried, IACD student project)
- The Shape of Song (Martin Wattenberg)
- Map of the Market (Martin Wattenberg)
- ColorCode (Martin Wattenberg)
- Understanding Shakespeare (Stefan Thiel)
- Darwin’s Origin of Species (Ben Fry)
- Zipdecode (Ben Fry)
- We Feel Fine (Jonathan Harris, currently down)
- Minard’s map of Napoleon March
Resources:
- Patrick’s Links (look here!)
- Mechanical Turk (tool for organizing low-cost human data labor)
- OpenPaths (tool for collecting your GPS wanderings)
- Pachube (clearinghouse for live data streams, from sensors etc.)
- Microaggressions (data set / collection tool)
- MiniTufte PDF (24MB), from the Edward Tufte books
Some database databases:
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets
http://thedatahub.org/
another JS toolkit: http://thejit.org/
Another great resource, the periodic table of data visualization methods
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#
Do not get me started on periodic tables.
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