Super sweet Tumblr of the Sunlight Foundation
Growing Education Divide in Cities
College graduates are more unevenly distributed in the top 100 metropolitan areas now than they were four decades ago. More adults have bachelor’s degrees, but the difference between the most and least educated metro areas is double what it was in 1970.
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logTool [onformative.com] is a data visualization tool that displays your online activity, based on data from the powerful network packet sniffing tool Carnivore. By analyzing the different IP addresses and ports, the visualization is able to determine and represent what kind of application or service sends or receives the packets. Developed for the magazine Weave, logTool was used to digest the surfing behavior of several interaction designers, artists and developers. (via logTool: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Online Surfing Behavior - information aesthetics)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ueraIfGv1qztevlo1_1280.jpg)
logTool [onformative.com] is a data visualization tool that displays your online activity, based on data from the powerful network packet sniffing tool Carnivore. By analyzing the different IP addresses and ports, the visualization is able to determine and represent what kind of application or service sends or receives the packets. Developed for the magazine Weave, logTool was used to digest the surfing behavior of several interaction designers, artists and developers. (via logTool: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Online Surfing Behavior - information aesthetics)
Independent State of Azawad: Africa’s Newest Country?
On March 22nd 2012, Mali’s coup d’état came as a shock to many Western observers, but given the state of Tuareg affairs in the Sahel region, the Arab Spring and additional economic factors made Mali poised for its current conflict. Separatists in the northeastern part of the country played the revolutionary spirit of the regional atmosphere to their strength, using the opportunity to declare an independent Tuareg-led state. An unprepared Malian national army sent to suppress the rebellion was left frustrated by a perceived lack of central support, leading a military junta to impose a subsequent coup d’état of the country’s leadership in the country’s capital Bamako. The once-peaceful capital has since been embroiled in political and (intermittent) inter-military battles.
Theatreland map (1915), by MacDonald Gill
via guardian.co.uk
Income inequality, as seen from outer space. More trees = wealthier neighborhood.
Featured here: Chicago, Boston, Oakland
Falling stout bubbles explained
Irish mathematicians may have solved the mystery of why bubbles in stout beers such as Guinness sink: it may simply be down to the glass.
Simulations suggest an upward flow at the glass’s centre and a downward flow at its edges in which the liquid carried the bubbles down with it.
But the reasons behind this flow pattern remained a mystery.
Anatomical Diagram Of The Incredible Hulk’s Skull
This anatomical diagram by Glendon Mellow attempts to put scientific data behind Bruce Banner’s superheroic transformation from man to Hulk.
The No-Fuss Dessert Generator is an online detailed poster that shows how to create nearly 800 different desserts. It was created by How to Cook Everything series author Mark Bittman for The New York Times (who is also behind the The Everyday, Anytime Egg-Combination Generator).
An Interactive Size Chart for Women’s Clothing
Meet What Size Am I, an online visualization tool that is designed to help women find branded clothes that fit. The tool was created by computer programmer Anna Smith.
This Memorial Day, we took a look back at how the U.S. soldier has evolved over the years. Did you know camouflage wasn’t introduced until the end of World War II?
3D GIS iPad App: 3D-GIS in the Cloud
The 3D-GIS in the Cloud App for iPad and Smartphones allows city data to be navigated in 3D. Mixing augmented reality and 3D visualizations the App extends the reach of GIS beyond the office and allows organizations to make collaborative and accurate business decisions in both field and office environments.
Kreek - Kinect controlled Interface
Kreek is a Kinect controlled interface which extends a normally two-dimensional multi-touch environment by the perception of depth. This allows the user to literally reach into the interface and gives applications the possibility to interprete parameters like pressure or solid distance.
John Nelson of IDV Solutions put 56 years worth of tornadoes on a map. John plotted each tornado’s path and used brightness for its F-scale (level of intensity). He also added secondary charts for deaths and injuries and frequency by F-scale.
