Posted Aug 30 2012
Curated by Visualizing
As our world becomes increasingly complex and inter-connected, we need a new lens to help us make sense of it all....
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Chaos and Structure
plakhova
Curator's Note
Based on the 19th-century Northern Circumpolar Map, this visualization depicts the chaos theory in abstract mathematics.
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Chaos and Structure
plakhova
Based on the 19th-century Northern Circumpolar Map, this visualization depicts the chaos theory in abstract mathematics.
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Perpetual Ocean
Horace Mitchell
Based on the ECCO2 Ocean Circulation Model, this visualization displays ocean surface currents around the world during the period between June 2005 and December 2007.
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The Internet map
Ruslan Enikeev
Encompassing more than 350 thousand websites from 196 countries and from all domain zones, the map presents the links between websites. Each website is represented by a circle on the map, and the larger the amount of traffic of the website, the bigger the circle. Users' switching between websites forms connections, and stronger connections position the websites closer to each other.
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Mapping Wikipedia
TraceMedia
Mapping Wikipedia visualizes all the geo-located wikipedia articles for a number of languages. The mapping highlights geo-linguistic contours and uneven geographies: regions that are densely populated with contested edits, and virtual deserts with sparse article coverage. The work offers an intriguing mirror of cultural and sociological difference, and a vast aggregate of shared human effort.
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Everyone Ever in the World
The Luxury of P...
Everyone Ever in the World is a visual representation of people who have lived versus who have been killed in wars, massacres and genocide during the recorded history of humankind. The visualization uses existing paper area and paper loss (die cut circle) to represent the concepts of life and death respectively. The total number of people to have lived was estimated through exponential regression calculations based on historical census data and known biological birth rates. This results in approximately 77.6 billion human beings to have ever lived during the recorded history of humankind and is represented in the poster.
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Never Forever Never For Now
The Luxury of P...
Never Forever Never For Now is a quantitative visualization of the transient nature of empire. The visualization graphs all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to the present day. Each empire occupies a slice of the pie graph with a known start (+) and end (×) date. Each slice is assigned a transparency value of 10% allowing for concurrent empires to be visualized – the more empires that occupy the same period of time in history, the whiter the graph. As history progresses, the competition for wealth, resources and the relentless drive toward conquest and occupation is clearly seen in the graph.
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Map of the Internet submarine cables
nicolasrapp
If the Internet is a global phenomenon, it is because there are fiber-optic cables underneath the ocean. Light goes in on one shore and comes out the other, making these tubes the fundamental conduit of information throughout the global village. To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable’s copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a 600-pound bluefin tuna. Once a cable reaches a coast, it enters a building known as a 'landing station' that receives and transmits the flashes of light sent across the water. The fiber-optic lines then connect to key hubs, known as 'Internet exchange points,' which, for the most part, follow geography and population.
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Views of the Sky #2
moebio
Space has always been an important field in visualization. View of the Sky #2 is a star map that allows the user to choose between real and apparent positions of the stars, and thus reveals actual 3D shapes of constellations.
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18,154 Consistent and Regular Views of NYC
David Stolarsky
What if you could take a picture looking at the same direction from 20,000 locations spaced evenly throughout a city? And what if you assembled those photos into a map of the city? With some code and some knowledge of how Google's Streetview backend works, you can. The project 18,154 Consistent and Regular Views of NYC does just that: the built and natural fauna of the city, and its high level structure emerge.
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Metrography - London Tube Map to large scale collective mental map
Benedikt Groß
Maps offer distorted projections of the real world, and these deformations get stored mentally to the point that they can become collective representations of the geography of the real world. Metrography attempts to explore this phenomenon using the most famous of transit maps: the London Underground. With this project it is possible to observe the deformation of geography based on time.
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Sea Transportation Network
marcinignac
Sea Transportation Network is a series of visualizations of sea transportation paths that were traced based on the real GPS coordinates of vessels during 2010. Ships visible in the video are simulated agents following the paths. A number of patterns emerge from this chaotic network of connections: from hubs like the Suez or Panama, through the transportation belt between Europe and Asia, to how spread the routes in the Pacific Ocean are. And despite invisible geographical information, viewers can still recognize shapes of the continents like Africa.
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Ville Vivante
Interactive Things
Communication is an integral part of daily life in cities, and today we are able to replay all the data related to communication networks. In a given day, Swisscom subscribers in Geneva generate approximately 15 million connections from 2 million phone calls. This information called 'digital traces' offers new insights about cities, which are of great interest both from a economic and political perspective.
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