Archive for the ‘data visualization’ tag
NYC’s “RIP”
New York City has a data project called “RIP” or “Rat Information Portal“. At least they have a sense of humor about it.
“Hip-hop Word Count”
The image above (50 Cent and Jay-Z) are from Tahir Hemphill‘s “Hip-Hop Word Count” project. Using seven criteria, the software:
…estimates the education level needed to understand each rhyme as well as, rates the artistic sophistication employed through the metaphors, similes, cultural references, consonantal/vocalic alliteration and overall pattern of each rhyme. We calculate the final score by averaging the syntactic (readability measures) and semantic (artistic sophistication) scores of each rhyme. On a scale from 0 (illiterate) to 20 (post-graduate degree).
The result is tabulated into a form that looks like this:
Interestingly, President Obama’s energy policy speech ranked lower than a Jay-Z album.
Geological time survey
A wonderful illustration of Geological Time created by Joseph Graham, William Newman, and John Stacy of the US Geological Survey. Available as a poster.
Click image above for full-size.
US strategy in Afghanistan and water current
Above is a diagram, released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in late 2009, showing the “surge” strategy for Afghanistan. Primarily criticized as a demonstration of how complex (read: impenetrable) our strategy for Afghanistan is (and I certainly find it difficult-to-impossible to decipher, when seen at the small scale above it has a certain water-current quality.
Perhaps like this drawing by DaVinci, which I love as a kind of early data visualization (not to mention amazing drawing):
Image via: MSNBC (thanks for the tip, Aaron)
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