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Entries from April 2007

Beautiful Music with reactable

April 29th, 2007 · No Comments

From the Björk shows comes the reactable. The demo is wonderful. Via Boing Boing.

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Tags: art · music · visualization

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

April 24th, 2007 · No Comments

What and outstanding site! Found on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog.

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Tags: visualization

Analytical Sniglets

April 20th, 2007 · No Comments

The team at Juice Analytics asked its readers for the “Lingua Analytica” and here is the evolving dictionary. Some of my favorites are abracadata, frankensheet and sociomath.
My additions:

Bitpicking (v): Carefully choosing data to create the most favorable impression.
Sheetcake (n): A spreadsheet with excessive formatting and color.
Spreadache (n): Exceeding the Excel 65,000-row limit.

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Tags: humor

The Inner Life of the Cell

April 20th, 2007 · No Comments

The Inner Life of the Cell is a mind-expanding animation. Watch the incessant, precise, complex and beautiful activity inside a single white blood cell. Why can’t more educational materials be like this? Here’s a neat writeup about it in Wired. Created by John Liebler. Here’s another version with music instead of narration.

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Tags: visualization