I referenced Wordle a few weeks back in our discussion on data visualization. If you missed the post, Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, [...]

Technorati estimates that the blogosphere has doubled in size every six moths for the last three years. On average, 175,000 new blogs are introduced to the web each day. For the typical individual/organization, keeping up with, communicating and making sense of this data is difficult/impossible. How then, can one effectively communicate what is happening [...]

Ever wonder what the Internet looks like? A lot like the diagram above, according to physicists at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. The red in the center is a cluster of 100 networks operated by massive corporations like AT&T and Google, while the purple periphery is ISP providers from around the globe.
The problem with being located [...]

Photographic artist Chris Jordan has transformed his societal observations regarding consumption and waste into an amazing body of work. “Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait” enables America’s disposable, consumption based culture to be visualized through large scale photographs.