I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work.

Data Visualisation

Posted: November 27th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cool, Design | No Comments »

I love data visualisation. Not a sentence I thought I’d ever write but with 2.0 technology, suddenly data is alive and sexy and brilliant.

This is a word cloud image made from words most associated with Barak Obama in hundreds of press releases. Imagine the live version powered by blog feeds. This kind of thing would make incredibly powerful digital outdoor posters – watch this space.

and this is one of my favourite websites of the year from Goodby Silverstein for Sprint mobile.

More links below.

Digg labs

The Feltron report

3D mapping

History flow (of a topic’s life story on Wikipedia)

Napoleon’s march to Moscow



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