Data Visualization

Two very important things to be said at this moment:

Will Wright introduces his beautiful and brilliant and timely new game, Spore.

Jonathan Harris of 10x10, We Feel Fine, and Universe talks about his work:

Link Spice, a simple new pepper for Mint.

Wanna know what geeky white guys are into on TV? Assuming the bit-torrent based TV downloading demographic is mainly white, male and above average in tech savviness, it's plausible that bit torrent seeding numbers are a reasonably good marker for what these guys like.

Spent a big part of today messing with Buzztracker quarterly cleaning.

The databases usually fill up within 3 months time. I always put it off until the last minute because it's such a slow, tedious process -- this cleaning up of old data, archiving, and making sure everything comes out squeaky clean.

Onlife is a very cool, simple little OS X app that tracks how you use applications and what you spend your time doing in those apps. It's still in its infancy so here's to hoping that they expand the applications supported in the near future (currently only Safari, Textedit, Mail, iChat, iTunes and FireFox are supported). Which is a shame because I use Camino and VooDooPad for most of my browsing and writing.
(via information aesthetics)

Colleen at Bookslut gives Chin Music Press, Kuhaku and Buzztracker one heck of a writeup. Go check it out along with the rest of their great articles.

For the first time to my knowledge, Buzztracker was podcasted. A calm and collected David Warlick shares his kind thoughts on Buzztracker and the implications for teaching using these sorts of tools. Thanks David!

(The Buzztracker bit is towards the end of the Podcast).

The forums over at Edward Tufte's site are impressive not only because of the seriousness of discussion but also because of the sheer length these discussions go on for.

As Buzztracker is now (I think more accurately) showing -- things are not good in New Orleans. A radio interview with the Mayor.

Making some changes to the way US news stories are incorperated into Buzztracker results. This should hopefully account for the bizarre lack of international news regarding the recent and ongoing New Orleans events.

The New York Times has a nice interactive piece putting into perspective the levee system, the location of the Mississippi river, Lake Pontchartrain and what parts of the city are actually flooded.

The information aesthetics weblog keeping you up to date on "creative information visualization." I like.

Have been following the blog of Mauro Cherubini lately. Frequent interesting posts on all sorts of data visualization goodness.