I posted the other day about data visualization tools, but even the best tools can’t save you if you’re clueless about visualization techniques. Most of this stuff isn’t web-specific, but I rant so frequently about this stuff to my classmates that I thought it’d be worthy of a post.
Charts!
Flowing Data recently challenged their readers [...]
I’ve been on the hunt for quick and dirty ways to show off data: visualization tools that are free, pretty, and easy to embed in a story. Here are my finds so far.
Kick-ass embeddable visualizations
Upload your data set to ManyEyes, and you can turn it into all kinds of neat charts and wacky interactive stuff [...]
We Tell Stories is a project from Pengiun: six new stories inspired by six classics, all told using new media techniques like blogging, mapping, and infographics. - totally freakin’ neat.
Over six weeks writers… will be pushing the envelope and creating tales that take full advantage of the immediacy, connectivity and interactivity that is now possible. [...]
Google Earth, New York Times Team Up
You can now browse New York Times news based on geography. Has the New York Times become hyperlocal, even though the content may not have that perspective. if all goes according to plan, the news will be updated every 15 minutes.
The Center for Locative Media
As educators and amateur neo-geographers, [...]
Paul Smith from EveryBlock has written an excellent article on making your own interactive maps.
An ecology of open source online mapping tools has emerged alongside the market leader. It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to our design goals.
The folks over at A [...]
Mashable has posted a nice analysis of the newest feature of Google Maps, YouTube videos.
The new feature is slightly different from geotagging photos in Flickr or Picasa, and is also different from the YouTube videos you can find in Google Earth. In those cases, a photo or video is associated with a particular geographic [...]
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