tagged w/ Data Visualization
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Great information site created by the Guardian, showing visually the party donations information for the first week of the election. The data was released by the electoral commission, so now we can see which party has the biggest budgets for campaigning and who are the biggest donors.
"The Tories received 33 donations between April 6 - the day the general election 2010 was announced - and April 12. Labour received seven donations, totalling just over £783,000. The Liberal Democrats received just two, totalling £20,000."-The Guardian
However, it will be next weeks data that will show the effect of the TV debates. The site has a excel sheet of information with a 'Individual Donations Detailed' that's perfect if you want to double check the donors records.Great information site created by the Guardian, showing visually the party donations... more
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As a first time voter I'm unsure on the full details on the effects of voting, so it's hard for me to fact check the details from this website. Though hopefully with the gap of five years there can be surprises and changes in voting patterns.
However, it is a effective website in finding about the voting patterns and information about your local area along with how marginal your MPs seat is.
Though I do recommend adding this information with the BBCs Constituency Profiles because you can see the % difference between parties and who's targeting your idea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/As a first time voter I'm unsure on the full details on the effects of voting, so... more
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Four of our eight featured Embedded artists are in big competition categories at the Grammys—more on each of them this week leading up to the telecast on Sunday—but we're also seeing some interesting coverage of how the Recording Academy is using social media in ways that, while not entirely groundbreaking, are a big step for such a bohemoth of the industry.
From Mashable:
The Academy has always tried to manage and keep very careful control over its message and brand. By embracing social media, that means giving up that control. Because while the Academy can connect directly with fans, fans can also connect back. That means accepting criticism and engaging in a discussion in a public way, something that just isn’t the norm for the Academy.
One of the connective tissues is WereAllFans.com, which features the tribute mash-ups that are being used in TV and print ads—more about the Lady Gaga one here—as well as other real-time data visualization. (Again, not exactly groundbreaking, especially at Current. But: cool. Very cool.)
Go in and poke around some to see how much online noise there is about an artist. Here's a screen shot from when I watched tweets about Silversun Pickups (along with Embedded's Imogen Heap and Common, they are among a short list of artists highlighted on this page).
I added one, using the built-in, unalterable hash-tag, and it hovers for a bit before disappearing into the ether. You can also watch streams of YouTube and Flickr submissions. It was all a bit slow, though—I hope on Sunday night it's working at a power that can keep up with fan commentary online.
Then there's the streaming video and, you know, actual show to contend with. Ratings may have been up last year, and the performance list for this year is strong. But will people really tune in to watch?
From NewTeeVee:
For a full 72 hours leading up to the show, live events and behind-the-scenes footage will be featured [on MySpace]. This includes the Sunday afternoon three-hour pre-telecast awards, the Grammys red carpet, and the after party. “It’s the longest stream any awards show has ever done,” said chief marketing officer Evan Greene, with whom I spoke via phone. However, the actual awards will only be viewable on CBS Sunday night — during the broadcast, past Grammy moments and some behind-the-scenes footage will be shown online instead.
As for post-show, there are some familiar, less groundbreaking challenges to getting the whole thing (or even parts of it) online:
The Recording Academy owns the rights to the actual broadcast material, so archiving and distributing live performances for the web isn’t an instantaneous thing, due to the many rights issues involved. “It’s tough to point to a performance prior to the show and say it’ll be available,” Greene claimed. For one thing, even if the record label approves the song for online distribution, the artist might not be happy with how they performed and will thus not allow it to be distributed. And when artists with different record labels and different representation perform together, such as last year when the Jonas Brothers and Stevie Wonder dueted, that only doubles the complications.
We get a lot of questions about why Current hasn't covered more live music, more festivals, more award shows—the short version is a similar "It's complicated." So in that trickle down intellectual property way, we're completely in favor of major organizations that both benefit artists and are responsible to them pushing boundaries on interactivity and real-time social media implementation.
Of course, come Monday morning it's all likely to get overshadowed by whoever scores the water cooler moment of the night.
More nominees:
+ Watch this now: Fanvids become Grammy ad
+ Silversun Pickups land Best New Artist Grammy nodFour of our eight featured Embedded artists are in big competition categories at the... more
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Charting The Beatles is an open collaborative project aimed at visualizing all sorts of Fab Four data, from sales statistics to recording session notes, from sheet music to raw audio readings.
A few examples at the link, and more infographic brilliance at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/chartingthebeatlesCharting The Beatles is an open collaborative project aimed at visualizing all sorts... more
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30 Funny and Creative Infographics
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A beautiful infographic drawing an interesting comparison between the number of drug deaths in 2008 and the number of deaths reported by UK press.
[informationisbeautiful.net]A beautiful infographic drawing an interesting comparison between the number of drug... more
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The American Time Use Survey asked thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day - from vacuuming the house to hanging out with friends. The NY Times translated these data into an amazing interactive infographic, comparing the 2008 weekday activities of the employed and unemployed.The American Time Use Survey asked thousands of American residents to recall every... more
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A very eloquent infographic from the NY Times illustrates the value of units shipped from 1973 to 2008 of various audio formats.
(Click on the link to see the full image)A very eloquent infographic from the NY Times illustrates the value of units shipped... more
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An amazing visualization of the exponential growth of Web traffic and popular sites in Australia in the last 8 years.An amazing visualization of the exponential growth of Web traffic and popular sites in... more
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Spoiler alert: one trillion dollars is enough to pay only one tenth of the spending for the current bailout.Spoiler alert: one trillion dollars is enough to pay only one tenth of the spending... more
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Swine flu explained in a quirky, comprehensive graph.
For more infographic goodness, join http://current.com/groups/infopornSwine flu explained in a quirky, comprehensive graph.
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A very clear visualization of how President Obama has been using tax payer dollars since coming into office.A very clear visualization of how President Obama has been using tax payer dollars... more
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...statistics from CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires, and even for prices of cookies!...statistics from CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates,... more
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And the award for Today's Most Amazing And Utterly Useless Twitter Thing goes to:
Twitt3d, a site that visualizes your Twitter feed in 3D and allows you to "fly through" your tweets.And the award for Today's Most Amazing And Utterly Useless Twitter Thing goes to:... more
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A gigantic LEGO-like map based on the concept of summarizing world statistics as a village of 100 people. This animated miniature Earth is divided into 5 navigable zones: Economy, Life, Food, Danger and a World map.
If the world were a village of 100 people there would be 2 computers, 24 televisions, 9 English-speaking people, and 6 American men would own 59% of the whole property.A gigantic LEGO-like map based on the concept of summarizing world statistics as a... more
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The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by Information Architects. It positions the most important websites and the most influential Internet people on a Tokyo train map.
Predictably, this year's Shibuya is Twitter.The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by Information Architects. It positions the... more
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