The BBC has launched its ‘Superpower’ season, broadcasting a series of interesting programmes exploring the power of the internet. The image below is taken from the season’s dedicated mini-site. This is the primary interface for navigating around the site’s content. Hovering over each component causes it to animate creating an innovative and engaging experience. The […]
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Nathan from FlowingData has published a post today which sets out a challenge to rework the graphic below, produced by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to present a comparison between Federal subsidies for food production and recommended nutritional servings. The intention of this graph is to show just how out of sync the
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Edward Tufte has announced today that he has been appointed by President Obama onto the four-man Recovery Independent Advisory Panel which will advise The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain the US $787 billion spent on recovery stimulus funds. For those of you unaware of Tufte, you could say that he
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It is well known how the power of a story can add so much effect to the exchange of information. It makes the communication interesting, accessible, simpler to understand and also has more chance of being remembered. It is not always a straightforward task to actually find a story within an a given problem context but, nevertheless, it is important to always at least try and approach such communications with an eye on logical sequence and narrative.
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Not going to do this all the time, it probably makes for a boring read, but with one month elapsed since this site went live and I published my first post, I thought I’d make some observations… Its harder work writing posts than I expected, especially when you want to strive for fairly original content
This video is for the new OK Go song “This Too Shall pass”. The band is well known for producing highly original and immaculately choreographed videos and this is their latest gem. It is based on a ‘Rube Goldberg‘ style system of ludicrously complex and convoluted action sequences similar to the award winning Honda advert and, to a lesser extent,
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How Much Information? is a report published by academics from the Global Information Industry Center, University of California, San Diego. Released in December 2009 it presents the results and analysis of a project aimed at creating a census of the world’s data and information consumption during 2008. It asks questions such as how much did people
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