Infographics Summary for 2012-02-08
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Gallery: 10 Stunning Science Visualizations
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Wired Magazine has posted a great gallery of 10 amazing Scientific Visualizations. Covering astronomy, genetics, biology, and physics, it’s a great view at some fantastic work. The image above is the Mototic Spindle of Yeast.
By spending two years with scientists from an array of fields — including physicists, biologists and computer scientists — artists were able to piece together this proposed model of a mitotic spindle in yeast.
The green represents rod-like microtubles, yellow represents DNA, and proteins are shown in red and purple.
Gallery: 10 Stunning Science Visualizations | Wired Science | Wired.com.
The 10 Best Visual Effects Scenes of 2011
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Popular Mechanics has compiled their list of the 10 best VFX scenes this year, including subtle work in The Adjustment Bureau to complete CG constructions in Harry Potter.
There’s a backlash building in Hollywood against the overuse of computer-generated imagery (CGI). For the most part, though, 2011′s popcorn blockbusters still leaned heavily on green screens and render farms to produce the most spectacular visual effects (VFX) of the year. Here are our picks for the scenes that proved that pixels can still impress us (even when the movies they populate don’t).
Would you have added anything else to the list?
via The 10 Best Visual Effects Scenes of 2011 – 2011 Best Special Effects – Popular Mechanics.
The 22 Best Infographics FastCo Found In 2011
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FastCo has published their selection of the 22 best infographics of the year, and adds some bold flavor text to match.
As infographics go mainstream, infographic designers grow bolder. Some of the most tantalizing projects we came across this past year stretched our understanding of what a data visualization can be: It can be a set of interactive commuter-train maps plotted not according to distance but time. It can be a metaphorical chart of how water flows from the source to the consumer. It can be the spikes and dips of the Dow Jones Industrial Average rendered as notes on a musical scale. Infographics have clearly evolved into something greater than just a way to make raw numbers more enticing. They’re a full-blown art form.
Of course, 2011 is also the year that Infographics “Jumped the Shark“, flooding the internet with garbage bit-sucking images that blow 4 sentences of information into a 4Meg graphic.
What do you think?
FlowingData’s Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
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2011 is coming to a close, to “Best Of 2011″ lists are gonna be big over the next week. Nathan Yau has posted his list on FlowingData, covering both individual visualizations and larger projects.
If last year (and maybe the year before) was the year of the gigantic graphic, this was the year of big data. Or maybe we’ve gotten better at filtering to the good stuff. (Fancy that.) In any case, data graphics continue to thrive and designers are putting more thought into what the data are about, and that’s a very good thing.
Infographics Summary for 2011-12-08
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The Benefits of Massage Therapy
The Better Investment: Apple Stock or Products?
Do Teeth Define your Personality?
A Blockbuster Drug with a Black-Box Warning: Zoloft
10 Steps to Avoid Getting your Car Stolen
RyanAir vs Pan Am
Process Servers vs Sheriff
The iPhone Evolution
The Joy of Healthy Hands
The Santa Bailout
Male vs Female Runners: Sports Bras vs Speedos
The Commerce of Christmas
Africanized Killer Honeybees
Infographics Summary for 2011-10-10
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The Modern American Worker
Competitive Eating: An Unbalanced Diet
What makes an F1 Champion?
Celebrating Diversity with Family History Month 2011
Our Aging Population
Why You’re an STD Risk?
Discover the history of Modern Aircraft
What type of Cruiser are you?
Paxil: the Facts’ll disturb you
Fosamax: Just the Facts
Has your Hip been Recalled?
7 Allergens in your Home
Digital Exclusion in the US
The Many Names of Visualization
7:14 pm
Nathan Yau (FlowingData) and Robert Kosara (Eagereyes) have opened up an interesting dialogue of the many terms behind the field of visualization. Terms like Infographics, Visualization, Charts, and Analytics all have different meanings to different groups so they each chime in with their own insights.
I was glad to see Robert point out one striking omission (striking to me anyway):
It’s interesting to see Nathan completely ignore scientific visualization, though it’s also not surprising: he is not a product of the academic visualization community. His focus is on statistical graphics and more information graphics-style things than visualization in general.
I can also think of a few other terms like Visual Analytics (which Robert ties in with Information Visualization) and the ever-popular “Data Porn”: Real data visualized to be “pretty”, without any real regard for making it useful.
Infographics Summary for 2011-09-14
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