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futurejournalismproject:

The New York Times R&D Lab Explores How Content is Shared

OWNI published its thoughts on the ten most creative digital projects of 2011. Included is work from MIT’s Media Lab, independent artists and scientists, design firms and open collaborations.

Above, we have Cascade from the New York Times R&D department.

Via OWNI:

Cascade is a by NYTimes R&D department that allows precise analysis of the structures that underlie sharing activity on the web. Initiated by Mark Hansen and working with Jer Thorp and Jake Porway (Data Scientist at the Times) the team spent 6 months building the tool to understand how information propagates through the social media space. While initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool and its underlying logic may be applied to any publisher or brand interested in understanding how its messages are shared.

Take some time to click through to watch some inspiration.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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Visualizing words, interactively

Two interactive, text-based data visualizations I made this week at the news dotcom:

An IBM Many Eyes word tree visual search tool on the Philippine Supreme Court’s November 22, 2011 ruling that ordered the family of President Benigno Aquino to distribute their 4,915.7466-hectare sugar estate to farmers.


An Infomous live, real-time word cloud of the latest news reports, tweets, and blog posts on the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing rivalry.

I also used Storify to show how the story on the Ampatuan massacre broke two years ago, as well as curated people’s comments on a rather ill-advised proposal to rename a historic avenue in Metro Manila.

Timeline tools

I wanted to create a timeline on the Ampatuan massacre but lost too much time trying to cope with Dipity’s database woes.

The unfinished Dipity timeline on the The Ampatuan Massacre. Database still toast if embedded timeline doesn’t show properly.

I’m still hoping Dipity gets its act together. I used Timerime last week for an on-the-fly timeline on the life of former President Gloria Arroyo but was not quite satisfied with the tool. It has too much publishing “friction” in allowing users to produce content.

Timetoast is easy to use but end product lacks eye candy.

Xtimeline, with its embed glitch, looks like it has been abandoned by developers. 

Timeglider looks promising, but its best features are pay-for-play. A 1,000-visit cap? No, thanks.

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Visualizing the 99%

The Guardian put together this animated explainer about wealth distribution in the United States.

Click through to see the data behind the animation.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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Jessica Hagy: The Visual Grammar of Ideas

Jessica Hagy: The Visual Grammar of Ideas

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Deleted Geocities archive visualized as city

[via FlowingData]

(Source: deletedcity.net)

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Kill Math makes math more meaningful

After a certain point in math education, like some time during high school, the relevance of the concepts to the everyday and the real world seem to fade. However, in many ways, math lets you describe real life better than you can with just words. Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.

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RSAnimate REMIX: The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown

In 2009, Stein Ringen, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford, gave his assessment of the New Labour government and the state of the British constitution. This was the subject of the first experimental, prototype RSAnimate. Visual scribe Andrew Park presents his remastered version of the animation.

(Source: thersa.org)

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The Value of Data Visualization, a 2-minute video by ColumnFive

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reporter-arm: The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821 Ooof.

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The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821

Ooof.

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Ranks of the Asian rich by 2015 

A quick data visualization I made for this business story.

I <3 IBM’s Many Eyes.

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whatinmind: Megan Jaegerman’s brilliant news graphics Edward Tufte, July 2007 Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. (…) Color is used to highlight how the gun moves and how the gun reveals itself, short visual noun-verb sentences that indicate the key signs that help detectives to spot someone carrying a hidden handgun. Thus the color usually has a distinct substantive point and is not just used to depict surfaces or to decorate the news. Most of all, the content is really interesting; we learn something new from Megan Jaegerman’s fine reporting work.  +1

whatinmind:

Megan Jaegerman’s brilliant news graphics

Edward Tufte, July 2007

Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. (…)

Color is used to highlight how the gun moves and how the gun reveals itself, short visual noun-verb sentences that indicate the key signs that help detectives to spot someone carrying a hidden handgun. Thus the color usually has a distinct substantive point and is not just used to depict surfaces or to decorate the news.

Most of all, the content is really interesting; we learn something new from Megan Jaegerman’s fine reporting work. 

+1

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futurejournalismproject: Learn some tech and web lessons from Smashing Cartoons via Smashing Magazine How about Calibri?

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Learn some tech and web lessons from Smashing Cartoons via Smashing Magazine

How about Calibri?

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futurejournalismproject: IBM’s Visual Communications Lab created a tool that visualizes who’s writing what at the New York Times. Via the VCL blog: You begin by performing a search for a topic of interest. Pick a keyword you’re interested, such as “Tsunami”. This will fetch articles containing that term that were written in the last 30 days and build the visualization from them. The above is the result for our search for “journalism.” The results, as explained by the VCL: Each bubble represents a single human-created tag describing an article. The size corresponds to the overall frequency that specific tag was used to describe articles about your query by labeling a related article. When you hover over a tag’s bubble you will see the other tags it was used with. The thickness of that connection will imply how frequently that pairing occurred. You can play with NYT Writes here. H/T: Flowing Data.

futurejournalismproject:

IBM’s Visual Communications Lab created a tool that visualizes who’s writing what at the New York Times.

Via the VCL blog:

You begin by performing a search for a topic of interest. Pick a keyword you’re interested, such as “Tsunami”. This will fetch articles containing that term that were written in the last 30 days and build the visualization from them.

The above is the result for our search for “journalism.” The results, as explained by the VCL:

Each bubble represents a single human-created tag describing an article. The size corresponds to the overall frequency that specific tag was used to describe articles about your query by labeling a related article.

When you hover over a tag’s bubble you will see the other tags it was used with. The thickness of that connection will imply how frequently that pairing occurred.

You can play with NYT Writes here.

H/T: Flowing Data.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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visualturn: “Poverty is a more powerful influence on test scores than value added by teachers and schools.” University of Texas physics Prof. Michael Marden’s visualization of the correlation between low SAT scores, poverty, and race.

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“Poverty is a more powerful influence on test scores than value added by teachers and schools.” University of Texas physics Prof. Michael Marden’s visualization of the correlation between low SAT scores, poverty, and race.

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Hyper Island Hard Facts

This video makes me want to become a student at Hyper Island. Not that I needn’t convincing to begin with. Well done.

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