visualization

A couple of months back, WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show asked listeners who have moved to or away from New York some questions. They asked current zipcode, previous zipcode, year of move, and some other questions. BLS then posted the data and let information and data folk have a go at it. Here are the results.
My favorite is Moritz Stefaner's interactive (above). You've seen his stuff around here before. Red indicates more moving out and blue indicates more people moving in. The New York area is enlarged in the white circle since most moves happened within the state, and the rest are placed using a damped distance function. Updating bar graphs on the right provide more context. Check it out, even if just for the cool factor.
A static look of the data by designer Andrea Stranger is pretty interesting too. The map below shows moves from 2000 to 2010, and it's accompanied by smaller maps for each year.

Check out the rest here. Some good stuff in there.

Where Americans are moving
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I trust we've all seen the OldSpice YouTube campaign by now? This graphic from Know Your Meme categorizes videos by who they were directed to and how many views they received. For example, a video to Joe Blow would be in the low-profile category, while responses to Alyssa Milano go to the high-profile category.
It's fun subject matter and interesting to look at, but it does miss some chances to be more informative. I mean, the story here isn't just number of views. It's more about the distribution of views and videos. We don't really get that from these visuals. Instead the main thing we get out of the graphic is the five most viewed videos.
That's not to say it's bad. But there is a good amount of room for improvement. How can we make this graphic more meaningful and tell a more complete story? Here's the full-sized version. Leave your constructive comments below.
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The tennis US Open is in full swing, and since you're at work, you probably need a way to keep up with all of the matches. In a collaboration between the US Open and IBM, this real-time display shows you what's going on during any given match.
New for the 2010 US Open, the USTA and IBM are introducing a "beta" release of US Open PointStream -- a new way to enhance your US Open experience. PointStream visualizes match data and stats in real-time to give you insight into the way your favorite players are performing.
It's sort of confusing at first, especially if you don't know anything about tennis. There are just so many more encodings than you're used to interpreting. That said, if you're a tennis nut and have it running in the background, it's easy to see how this could be useful as an ambient display, as opposed to an analysis tool.
Here are the main encodings. Each player has a color: green or blue. The inner ring is a calculated measure of who currently is at an advantage during the match. The outer ring shows progress of the current match. Bar height indicates serving speed and white lines indicate aces. Small squares on top of bars show winners. Finally, the rings in the middle show previous sets.
Still confused and have suggestions on how to improve it? Let them know. It's still in beta, and they're taking feedback. I was unsure what I was looking at at first, but it's grown on me after staring at it for a little.
[Thanks, Jeff]

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Crispian Jago created this great subway map of the top scientists in the last 500 years.  Subway Science plots the science celebrities by discipline (subway track), connections where appropriate and the shaded rings in the background show the timeline by century (the outer ring is the 20th century).  Sir Isaac Newton crosses 5 lines…either a great multi-tasker or ADHD.
 

You can see that Crispian has tagged this as DRAFT version 0.37, and he already has a huge number of comments on his Science, Reason and Critical Thinking blog post.  I expect there will be revised versions in the future.
Where’s Sheldon Cooper?!?
Found on Bad Astronomy and Visual Loop

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