Tag: VISUALIZATION

Google's latest search tool may not be its most widely celebrated, but it could end up having a far greater cultural impact than anything else the company has ever done. The new Google Books Ngram Viewer, which launched last week, collects more than 500 billion words, from over 5.2 million digital books available for free download. Users can search for a specific word or phrase, and the viewer ...

If It Was My Home brought the tragedy of the BP oil spill to your backyard by laying an outline of the environmental disaster over a Google Map of your own neighborhood. Dimensions, an experiment created in partnership with the BBC, may have been conceived before the debut of the oil spill-specific site, but they use the same trick to put world and historical events into perspective. ...

The newest trend in government is undoubtedly open data. The White House has Recovery.gov, with its detailed mapping of stimulus spending, New York City has an app store that shows everything from restaurant inspection results to public school ratings, and even Afghanistan has opened up its electoral data to app developers. Washington, DC is another data happy town that's been exposing detailed ...

Since we already have a color-coded system to tell us how afraid we should be, it only makes sense that someone would create a similarly colorful metric to tell us whether or not we should wear galoshes tomorrow, right? That's exactly what a cool new building called 'Tomorrow's Weather' does. The eight-story structure in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Swedish art duo Bigert & ...