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curiositycounts:

Influence: A Brief History200 years of transformative moments*Click-through to website for best zoom-in-age
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Influence: A Brief History
200 years of transformative moments
*Click-through to website for best zoom-in-age

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curiositycounts:

Infographic: Who Is The Next Generation Of Scientists?(via)

Infographic: Who Is The Next Generation Of Scientists?

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New Infographic Visualizes the Space Debris Cloud Surrounding Earth

Space debris remains one of the biggest challenges for a space-faring humanity in the 21st century, as even the smallest pieces can pose a serious threat to satellites, manned spacecraft and the International Space Station. Now our friends at Fast Company have stumbled on a nifty infographic by Austrian designer Michael Paukner that lays out the space clutter situation more clearly.

The Evolution of Storage

If you haven’t already seen this Evolution of Storage infographic, take a look. It’s beautiful and fun, and it has me thinking about the way we live.

Innovation History via 6,000 Pages of Annual Reports

Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with GE, visualizes GE annual reports from 1892 to 2011. It doesn’t sound so interesting at first, but browse the appearance of keywords, and you do get a sense of change.

Is The Future This See-Through 3D Desktop?

Much as the industry is constantly evolving in terms of faster computers and ever more ingenious and polished operating systems, the very basic interaction between man and machine has remained pretty constant over the last decades. You still have a flat screen projecting flat images at a user sitting in front of it. Sure, some of these images may depict a three dimensional object, but the images themselves are still 2D. A project by Jinha Lee and Cati Boulanger, former intern and researcher respectively, at Microsoft Applied Sciences would change all that.

Ville Vivante

The mobile phone has rapidly become a very essential tool, that we carry with us all the time, everywhere we go. It has become the focus of our communication and information in a hyper-connected world, which tolerates less and less that we disconnect or just don’t have immediate access to information.

Based on this conclusion the City of Geneva decided to take the challenge to visualize these digital traces created by our mobile phones. The objective of this installation is to make this data visible and allow you to explore these streams of connected people around the city, in their everyday life.

codeforamerica:

“Should I Go to a @CodeforAmerica hackathon” by Emily Wright Moore

soupsoup:

stoweboyd:

Bell Labs influence on everthing

I grew up down the block from the Bell Labs that invented the cell phone.

3segundos:

Digital Waste. Infography.

Visualizing Individual CPU Utilization of a Large Scale Data Center

Server performance and system administration expert Brendan Gregg has posted a critical overview of some very interesting approaches to visualize device utilization, or the working efficiency of about 5,312 virtual CPUs (spread over about 600 physical processors). In his profession, Brendan need to analyze urgent performance issues, that can often not be solved with available visualization tools (the most common problem is a line graph showing average device utilization, making it impossible to identify that single or multiple devices are at 100%).

Visualizing Everything Facebook Knows about You

A couple of months ago, 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems requested Facebook for all his personal data. The European arm of Facebook, based in Dublin, Ireland, was obliged to turn over this information, as they had to follow an European law that requires any entity to provide full access to data about an individual, should this individual personally request for it. Accordingly, Max received a CD containing about 1,222 pages (PDF files), including chats he had deleted more than a year ago, “pokes” dating back to 2008, invitations, and hundreds of other details.