Tag: DATA VISUALIZATION

André Panisson, who works at data visualization software company Gephi, got lucky while experimenting with a script for tracking tweets. He tracked posts with the hashtag #jan25, just before and right after the announcement of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's resignation. The result is the stunning, pulsating spider web of connected tweets. ...

Share Social networking sites allow anthropologists to effortlessly and immediately analyze cultural tendencies, but most formal online studies culminate with boring papers and incomprehensible data. However, Facebook intern Paul Butler recently delved into his site's usage patterns, and -- instead of compiling monotonous charts and graphs -- the impressive engineer-in-training has generated a ...

Every year Google blesses us with Zeitgeist, a roundup of what the world was searching for during the last 12 months. This year's big searches included the World Cup, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the earthquake in Haiti. The iPad and Chatroulette, though were the most popular queries. Check out the year in review video after the break, and explore the Zeitgeist data here using Google's ...

Flickr user Curtiss Spontelli recently uploaded this wonderful little chart showing the evolution of data storage over the years. It's interesting to visualize how our modern two-terabyte hard drives can hold about a zillion times more than ye olde wax cylinders, and that even Zip disks (which don't seem that archaic to some of us) held only 100 megabytes. How our needs have changed. While ...