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Geo-crime mashups

I think I've hit a personal first: a depressing mashup. Oakland Crimestopping is a Flash-based vizualization tool overlaying reported crime data in Oakland, CA, by type (from aggrevated assault to murder to burglary) and time on a Virtual Earth map. Fortunately, I live nowhere near Oakland, but if I...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-25-2007
So what do we mean by the 'Internet Cloud'?

Danny dropped by and asked me : "Hi Alex, do you happen to know of any half-decent definition of "the cloud"?" I know it sounds corny, but 'good question'!! So I'll give it a go. Now, I could get textual, but I'll first try to answer with a few pics... Maybe I see the 'cloud' as over-developed green...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-04-2007
If you don't like roller-coasters...

If you don't like roller-coasters, do not check out this interpretation of US house pricing data (adjusted for inflation) since since 1890 to today. Via information aesthetics .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-04-2007
Visualizing blog-mediated relationships

Lilia Efimova has documented the development of her relationship with another blogger, Andrea , in the form of this visualization . It marks the types of communications between each other (blog posts, comments, del.icio.us bookmarks, Skype chats, etc), their timing and direction. I love this diagram...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-04-2006

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