Category Archives: Inspiration

Apart from sounding like a wierd pedopophile-esque site, the baby file is definately worth a look. It plots the most popular baby names in Toronto. http://toronto.openfile.ca/babyfile

A really simple and lovely data visualisation project, the hex colour code is created from the current system time. Which means beautiful, ambient, time-driven rainbows. I love this! The Colour Clock.

I think I’m decided on the BBC news video visualiser, but I’m still subscribed  to some map data listings. I came across this project which just looks really clever… The New York Times have made an interesting mapping project, using … Continue reading →

I’ve come across another interesting mapping of data, this time showing how the recession is affecting the US. I think the interactivity and progression of this map is really nice… definately adds meaning to otherwise random numbers. It’s quite pretty … Continue reading →

http://gizmodo.com/5708111/ Tableau is an “anti-computer” experience. But the other, glass-half-full reading is that Tableau is a super intelligent piece of furniture, a Twitter-connected nightstand that can print photos and scan handwritten notes. In short, it makes digital things physical and … Continue reading →

The most recent lecture Simon led for 4D was an introduction to Quartz composer. Quartz Composer was the first method we looked out to create visualisations without code. We created a few visualisation experiments using Quartz Composer and webcams. One … Continue reading →

Since the sad news that I can’t use my tweeting cows, I’ve started looking at other sources of live feed data… One of the main ones I’ve found is patchube, whose slogan is connecting environments, patching the planet. Store, share … Continue reading →