HTTP Compression use by Alexa Top 1000 | Zoompf
An in-depth analysis (graphs! data!) of how popular sites are using—or not using—compression.
Tags: data
Myself, quantified | Extenuating Circumstances
Dan writes about how data saved his life. That is not an exaggeration.
He describes how, after receiving some very bad news from his doctor, he dived into the whole “quantified self” thing with his health data. Looking back on it, he concludes:
If I were still in the startup game, I have a pretty good idea of which industry I’d want to disrupt.
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto - YouTube
A beautiful and disturbing piece of data visualisation. The numbers are quite astonishing.
What Goes Up, Doesn’t Have To Come Down
A thoughtful—and beautifully illustrated—piece by Geri on memory and digital preservation, prompted by the shut-down of Gowalla.
The world’s undersea internet cables - interactive | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Explore the shape of the underwater world of internet backbones.
Google, what were you thinking? ← Mocality Kenya
Stef does some data-sleuthing and uncovers some shocking behaviour on the part of Google in Kenya.
Dark data, and how frustrating it is that we can’t see the forest from the trees – Helloform
Fred touches on the same issues that Frank highlighted in his dConstruct talk last year: what do we do with all of this wealth of material we’ve been collecting/ffffinding/scrobbling/liking/favouriting/plus-one-ing.
angry, productive birds (tecznotes)
Mashing up Angry Birds and spreadsheets to better visualise project time-tracking.
A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
A really nice pattern for data tables in responsive designs. Just as with conditional loading, the key point is making a distinction between essential and optional content.
Simon Collison | Colly | Journal | My digital preservation utopia
Colly’s thoughts on digital preservation are written in a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek way but at least he’s thinking about it. That alone gives me comfort.
Occupy George
A stroke of genius: turning money itself into the carrier for infographics on wealth distribution in America.
The Great Universe of Data on Vimeo
One of the opening lightning talks at Science Hack Day in San Francisco by Sean Herron of NASA.
Goodbye time, datetime, and pubdate. Hello data and value. | HTML5 Doctor
A very even-handed look at the time and data debacle in HTML5.
The trouble with font classifications | Clagnut § Design thinking · Typography
Richard would like your help. Take a few minutes to run through a card-sorting exercise to help classify fonts in a more meaningful way.
10 Charts About Sex « OkTrends
This is may just be the best thing on the internet about data visualisation and statistics. And sex.
Secret Servers | booktwo.org
A great piece by James on the architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters.
BBC Dimensions: How Many Really?
A nice project from BERG that aligns numbers from your own world (like the number of people you follow on Twitter) to numbers in the larger world.
Times Higher Education - Memory failure detected
A worrying report on the state of digital preservation and the web, specifically in the UK. Welcome to the memory hole.
Escaping the Digital Dark Age
Stewart Brand wrote this twelve years ago: it’s more relevant than ever in today’s cloud-worshipping climate.
I’d like to think that it’s ironic that I’m linking to The Wayback Machine because the original URL for this essay is dead. But it isn’t ironic, it’s horrific.
A fascinating examination by Hixie of web technologies that may have technically been “better” than HTML, but still found themselves subsumed into the simpler, more straightforward, good ol’ hypertext markup language.
The follow-on comments are definitely worth a read too.
See something or say something - a set on Flickr
These lovely visualisations of geotagged photos and tweets are almost indistinguishable from aerial views of cities at night.
Unhosted - Imagine personal data freedom…
This looks like it might be worth investigating as one potential solution to the sharecropping problem: code for decentralising your data; you allow apps to access your data but you get to decide where that data lives. Intriguing.
Experience Is What We Make It | UX Magazine
The Riegers are like emissaries from Planet Smart and we mere mortals are fortunate that they take the time to give us great articles like this.
Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
A dataviz demo of creepiness: displaying the movements of Malte Spitz by correlating her phone activity and web usage.
Tidy Street electricity usage | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I really like this idea: one street in Brighton is openly displaying its electricity usage over time.
a world of tweets
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.
Digitale data in gevaar! - Datanews.be
If you speak Flemish, you might enjoy this article based on a chat I had with a Belgium journalist.
If you don’t speak Flemish, well, just move along.
Open Planets Foundation | digital, forever
This consortium of institutions and universities came together “to provide practical solutions and expertise in digital preservation.”
PLANETS stands for Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services.
ID card database destroyed - a set on Flickr
For once, I’m happy to see data being destroyed.
MTA.ME
The New York subway schedule converted into sound by treating each line as a string.
YouTube - Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters
Visualising the Republic of Letters.
City Crawlers Berlin
This looks like it could be a good book: a collaborative project to find patterns and stories in the data of one city.
Oh, and the site is lovely and responsive.
A History of the World in 100 Seconds on Vimeo
A gorgeous visualisation of Wikipedia data from History Hack Day. Watch the shape of the world emerge over time.
Victorian Infographics - a set on Flickr
Some beautiful pieces of data visualisation.
Lost Bomber – Techbelly
Using data to help put a single death in the family into a wider perspective.
Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia
Visualisations of the history of controversial Wikipedia articles.
No More Sharecropping!
A site dedicated to the principle of homesteading your data.
Time Zones
A very handy tool for planning intercontinental communication.
Dead Drops Database
London has its first data dead drop. Time to put Brighton on the map methinks.
Romance has lived too long upon this river
A glanceable indication of the current Thames tide, from James Bridle.
Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk
A visual representation of each track on the new Girl Talk album.
Draggables
Watch this space. Glenn has a really interesting idea (and implementation) for exchanging structured data between browser windows using drag'n'drop.
Old Weather - Our Weather's Past, the Climate's Future
What a superb project! Forget Mechanical Turk — this is the way to harness the collective intelligence of humans: transcribing weather observations made by naval ships at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's all grist for the climate model mill.
Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee
Telling stories with data — the video.
Open Data for the Arts – Human Scale Data and Synecdoche – Blog – BERG
An inspiring presentation by Tom Armitage on the value of open data.
The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’ « OkTrends
They're going to get into so much trouble for this, but this data analysis is pretty great.
Did you have a nice day? - Made by Rattle
A beautiful SVG visualisation (with source code) of the Rattle team's experience of dConstruct 2010.
Periodic Table of the Elements - Josh Duck
Cute illustration of different content types in HTML (though, personally, I would put sectioning content — section, article, nav, aside — into their own group).
Polymaps
A JavaScript/SVG library for displaying maps in a variety of interesting ways.
BBC - Dimensions - Index
New from BERG: superimposing historical events onto familiar landscapes.
prettymaps
Beautiful map visualisations by Aaron Straup-Cope.
Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com)
Paul Ford sets the record straight on what editors do.
flickr shapetiles / july 2010
Aaron's lovely visualisation of Flickr's shapetiles.
Geonames Maps « optional.is/required
Brian documents his beautiful Geonames SVG maps.
Understanding Graphics — Design For The Human Mind
A site on designing with data from the author of Visual Language For Designers: Principles For Creating Graphics That People Understand.
Rise and Fall
Mike Stenhouse has graphed civilisation longevity: a nice bit of long zoom perspective.
If San Francisco Crime was Elevation | Doug McCune
Beautiful mapping visualisations of crime data.
OpenPlatform Content API Explorer
A handy interface onto The Guardian's new API.
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
Kellan outlines the bare minimum you should expect from any service that you are putting data into.
Color Survey Results « xkcd
The wonderfully detailed analysis of a colour questionnaire.
Data | The World Bank
A shedload of data from The World Bank. Get parsing.
Digital Death Day
This is my kind of event. Where does your data go when you die?
Museums and the Web 2010 – Machine Tags: Theory, Working Code and Gotchas (and Robots!)
Slides from a presentation on machine tags by Aaron Straup Cope. I highly recommend downloading the PDF for the bounty of links listed under "Reading List."
A Practical Guide to Designing with Data
Excellent news: Brian is writing a book.
Raiding Eternity - Myspace - Gizmodo
This is wonderful: sad, beautiful, and wonderful ...it's what I've been trying so hard to clumsily articulate. Read it. And smile. And weep.
The Case For An Older Woman « OkTrends
A thoroughly well-researched and data-heavy blog post ...complete with interactive charts!
Findings - People Share News Online That Inspires Awe, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com
Network data fills me with awe. And now I'm sharing this because I like its positive message.
MikeMake
Beatles infographics.
Digital Podge 2009 - Measurable Fun | 17th December 2009
This is a gorgeous-looking website. I have no idea what it's about.
Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Journal - Boarding Pass / Fail
The redesign of everyday things.
The Landscape of Music
The geography of musicians.
Immaterials - Talks - BERG
Matt Jones on sociality, data, radio and time.
Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown – Blog – BERG
Matt gets an opportunity to use the Chernoff effect for visualising school data.
SPARKLINES IN THE GRID - Patent Application 20090282325
Microsoft are trying to patent sparklines. Twunts.
cyoa
An in-depth study mapping all the permutations in "choose your own adventure" books.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
You can now store (and scale) MySQL databases with Amazon. Handy.
The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » Usability testing HTML5
Hixie has been making changes to microdata in HTML5 based, not on opinion or theory, but on the results of user testing.
Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - visualized!
A blog devoted to data visualisation.
Building Rome in a Day
Unbelievable 3D visualisation created by extracting common points from millions of pictures on Flickr of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik. As Matt Haughey would say, "Holy shitballs!"
Table of Condiments
Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad
Amazon.com: The Manga Guide to Databases: Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Trend-pro Ltd.: Books
Now *this* is how you explain technical concepts.
Pulse Laser: Here & There influences
Jack Schulze goes into detail on the genesis of the wonderful Here & There map/visualisation.
http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/
This is the best location visualisation I have ever seen.
Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!
A visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces. From the mad genius that is Cameron Adams.
Wikirank
A Cederholm-designed site for tracking trends on Wikipedia. Check out the HTML5-based class names.
Goodbye Google | stopdesign
Douglas explains why he's leaving Google. "I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data."
Data Store: Facts you can use |
The Guardian has released a shedload of data for us to play with. Go forth and hack.
husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge.
Paul Mison shares his thoughts on moving towards a decentralised web of services rather than silos of data. "Now I'm wondering: is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site? If there is, is it even possible to write it in a way that anyone who couldn't have written it themselves can even use it?"
Part 1/5, My Favorite Graph: at the Equator
"I love this graph because in one small space, it shows the time of Sunrise and Sunset across the entire world throughout all Latitudes throughout the entire year of this tilted planet."
Experiments in Data Portability - Screencast
Glenn has created a screencast of his superb Skillswap presentation, syncing up the audio with the slides.
maxgadney.com
Information Graphics about WWII for WWII magazine and for the book proposal "A Visual Miscellany of World War II".
LifeStreamBackup.com
This could prove to be very useful in the event of future Pownce/Jaiku implosions.
Dopplr Blog » Blog Archive » Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…
I can't wait to get my personal annual report from Dopplr! In the meantime, I'll content myself with the very pretty example of Barack Obama's annual report.
CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (co2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world.
Why you should have a Website
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
SitePoint » 4 Easy-to-Use Microformat Tools to Beef Up Your Site
A rundown of microformat-extracting tools. "Ultimately, microformats are a bit like plumbing. They don’t do very much on their own, but if you make use of the data they provide, you can quickly and easily create useful functionality your visitors …
Vimeo Toys
Interactive visualizations of what's happening right now.
Networks - a set on Flickr
A collection of network diagrams and visualisations from the simple to the sublime.
DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer
A crazy way of viewing news stories courtesy of Brendan Dawes.
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code
The new Radiohead video isn't really a video at all. It's data visualisation. Here you can interact with the data points while the song is playing. I love this.