Archive for the ‘data visualization’ tag
Google’s Ngram Viewer
Today I found Google’s Ngram viewer and raw data sets. Above is the frequency of the words “Jeffrey” and “Jeff” in all of Google’s scanned books from 1800-2000.
The query is insanely fast, considering the data that the viewer must have to read through. Also of note, the frequency is normalized to the number of books published that year.
Cropped Visualization
A tiny section from a visualization of Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning” – particularly taken by the speckles that are throughout.
ISOTYPE Visualization
A very nice vintage data visualization in the ISOTYPE style via the Information is Beautiful blog. ISOTYPE stands for “International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. It was an early infographical form, originated in the 1930s by Austrian philosopher and curator Otto Neurath ‘as a symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons.’”
Extraordinary Design
“There is no way to think up an original and extraordinary design—it can only come as a result of pursuing a given task. In the same way running down a list of words is different from making a narrative.”
Artemy Lebedev (via FlowingData)
Playfair’s Early Data Visualizations
A data visualization by William Playfair from his book The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary, from the early 1800s. Playfair pioneered many of the chart forms we know today, though the one above I find fascinatingly new, a sort of combination of the pie and bar graph.
Image via (and much higher-resolution version): USU
Originally found via a very nice reprint by Cambridge University Press
Cinemetrics
Current disc usage
SSH “randomart”
+--[RSA1 2048]----+ | o. | | + . | | = + | | . = = . | | + S + ... | | + . *..E. | | o +.. . | | .. .. | | . ..| +-----------------+
Not really sure what it is, or how to make it happen, but apparently OpenSSH creates a visualization of the random, hex-format authentication “fingerprint”, easier for humans to identify than a random string of characters.
Some details via: Krispy and SuperUser
+--[ DSA 1024]----+ | o.o | | .= E.| | .B.o| | .= | | S = .| | . o . .= | | . . . oo.| | . o+| | .o.| +-----------------+ +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | o=. | | o o++E | | + . Ooo. | | + O B.. | | = *S. | | o | | | | | | | +-----------------+
BPM analysis
Alex Dragulescu’s “Malwarez” series
From Alex Dragulescu‘s series “Malwarez”, visualizations of computer viruses using Processing.
According to his site, the “disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity.”
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