Interactive map plots locations of more than 100 million species
It’s the most comprehensive map of US biodiversity ever made.
The most excellent Tumblr of the Sunlight Foundation
Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts
Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.
It’s the most comprehensive map of US biodiversity ever made.
loop / oktober 2004 - september 2005 / asprovalta
in conferences on data visualization, creative code, information graphics
The evolution of discussion around the Boston Marathon events
When the Esri DC Dev Center team first found out about the reported explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, we immediately tuned into Twitter to capture live discussions so that we could understand the series of events. With over 440,000 tweets captured in under 24 hours, one can imagine the difficulty in trying to synthesize an understanding of how events occurred over that time period.
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wnyc:
Take a trip inside the magical world of….The Book of Clocks. This guide sits in the control rooms at WNYC and has the standard “clocks” for each show. How long the segments are, where the breaks come, when the network hands off to the local affiliate, etc… Without this, we’d be flying blind. Also makes for great bedtime reading.
-Jody, BL Show-
For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap
More than 700,00 people live in assisted-living centers, where they get help with daily activities like bathing and dressing. Most of the residents have multiple chronic health conditions.
The Frustration of San Francisco’s Mass-Transit Riders, Visualized
What does tax lobbying look like in the 112th Congress?
Our visualization of the vast network of tax lobbying clearly shows clusters emerging around different sectors of the economy. We detect at least 15 distinct lobbying clusters. The densest thickets of activity center around: electricity generation; renewable energy; finance; and the high-tech industry.
Motion Time Lapser Generates Time Lapses From Folders of Phone
Time lapse videos can be stunning, but they aren’t very easy to make, at least not well. Motion Time Lapser is a unique Windows app that automatically crops photos for use in time lapses, complete with advanced panning and rotation animations.
Teaching a computer to play Mario… seemingly through voodoo
Some people know [Tom Murphy] as [Dr. Tom Murphy VII Ph.D.] and this hack makes it obvious that he earned those accolades. He decided to see if he could teach a computer to win at Super Mario Bros.
See-through brain lets scientists spot the connections
Stanford researchers discover a way to make the brain completely transparent so they can study its structure without the need for slicing.
Hospitals can now track which workers have washed their hands
GE has just announced a new technology for hospitals. The AgilTrac Real-Time Location System will allow hospitals to make sure doctors, nurses, and other workers are washing their hands enough.
How much space each person has in some of the world’s major cities