Infographics Summary for 2011-04-25
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This Is The World’s Highest Resolution Photograph
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A nice piece of work comes from Halta Definizione who has compiled the world’s highest resolution photograph. Notice it’s not the world’s largest photograph, as it only clocks in at 16 gigapixels, but that 16 billion pixels is focused entirely on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”.
So what is this picture portraying? Well, it wouldn’t be right if it wasn’t Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper“. The depth of the image is just mind boggling. You can zoom down to the smallest grain of paint and still not lose the clarity or the crispness of the image itself. It’s really amazing to zoom and pan around in search of those infamous details that we all know of since the movie “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown.
Hit their website for the interactive viewer.
Augmented Reality App For Filing Librarians
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An impressive product use for Augmented Reality comes from researchers at Miami University that have used an Android handset to analyze books on a library shelf in real-time to find the misfiled books.
ShelvAR consists of an Android app and a set of coded tags, representing call numbers, that are placed on books’ spines. When a librarian holds a smartphone or tablet camera up to a shelf, the app reads all the tags at once, thanks to a new algorithm that can decipher multiple patterns even though they’re small when viewed at a distance. Then the app uses a simple sorting method—at least for computers, which aren’t fazed by complex letter-digit combos like Q164 .G72 2009–to figure out the correct order and the shortest number of moves needed to achieve it. The phone’s screen displays red X’s over any misfiled books, along with arrows that show where they really belong.
Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 25/04/2011
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Earth Day was celebrated last week, but we’re maintaining the “green tone” here, during this week. Today, from WordStream, comes the environmental impacts of the internet, followed by Geekaphone‘s look at how green is the iPhone, and by eBay‘s take on how the iPhone and Trade-ins help the environment . Canada’s e-Waste is brought by 411, and finally, some Earth Day driving facts and iips, provided by Telenav.
Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 22/04/2011
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Our last roundup of the week, dedicated to multiple aspects of the U.S economy, will be about the Housing market, and we begin precisely with Propertified‘s look at the current state of home affordability. After that, from Total Bankruptcy comes an overview of the Foreclosures in 2011, while Mint gives some tips on how to buy a Home. The Mortgage Tax deduction infographic is brought by Lendingtree, and, finishing this Daily Viz from Visual Loop, the World’s most expensive addresses, from Ria Novosti.
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis
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Computerworld takes a look at some of the tools presented at last month’s Computer-Assisted Reporting conference and picks their top 22 free tools for visualization & analysis. Many of them we’ve reported on before (like DataWrangler, Google Fusion, and Many Eyes).
There are many tools around to help turn data into graphics, but they can carry hefty price tags. The cost can make sense for professionals whose primary job is to find meaning in mountains of information, but you might not be able to justify such an expense if you or your users only need a graphics application from time to time, or if your budget for new tools is somewhat limited. If one of the higher-priced options is out of your reach, there are a surprising number of highly robust tools for data visualization and analysis that are available at no charge.
It’s a good list, but missing some rather important additions like ParaView & VisIt IMO.
via 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis – Computerworld.
How to make data look sexy
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CNN has an interview with Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, the two minds behind Google’s ‘Big Picture’ project and gets them to discuss their own ideas of what comprises great visualizations.
“You cannot not communicate”
As this quote by designer Erik Spiekermann indicates, you have no choice: by the time the first data point hits the screen, you’re communicating. The catch: it’s a fallacy to think communication happens solely through the data you’re plotting. Even before viewers understand the data, they form strong impressions of the intended message based on colors, fonts, and the like.
Because visualizations are, well… visual, their design is a crucial part of what they communicate. This means that when you try your hardest to build a “neutral” visualization, with subdued tones and discreet type, you are in fact creating a specific mood: “This is serious, serious business.” As long as that’s a deliberate choice, you’re being true to your data and to your audience.
IBL Optimizer V1 for 3dsmax2012
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If you’ve upgraded to the new 3dsMax 2012, you might want to try out this great plugin that helps build image-based lighting maps.
IBL Optimizer V1 allows you to use Images Based Lighting at 3dsmax2012 to composite real HDRI´s with Computer generated Objects.
A wealth of options and some impressive results..
Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 21/04/2011
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We’ll start our selection with a couple of infographics about technology and taxes: Cell Phone tax rates by State, by TurboTax, and how Cloud Computing makes Tax Season less taxing, brought by RackSpace. Then, a look at the Recessions and Recoveries since World War II, by Third Way, followed by the financials of living together without getting married, from the folks at Mint, and, finally, Caring‘s Emotional and Financial costs of Caregiving.
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