It seemed as if the entire world stopped to watch the World Cup match against Belgium. Twitter released a map shortly after the game that pretty much backs up that notion, with geotagged tweets mentioning key World Cup terms surging and falling as they were sent during the match. As the match approached extra time …
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ScanLAB Projects
ScanLAB Projects are the UK’s leading provider of large scale 3D scanning, capturing precise, beautiful digital replicas of buildings, landscapes, objects and events. We provide quality 3D Scanning Services, 3D Publishing and Pointcloud Visualisation. Damn impressive! Be sure to check out some of the works shown on their website. ScanLAB Projects →
A Map of Baseball Nation
Baseball fans may not list which team they favor on the census, but millions of them do make their preferences public on Facebook. Using aggregated data provided by the company, we were able to create an unprecedented look at the geography of baseball fandom Built using Google Maps. Also saw some GeoJSON fly by over …
The digital unwrapping of the Egyptian priest Neswaiu
Note: There’s a flash video embedded in this post. Your feed reader or iDevice might/will not show it. Stockholm’s Medelhavsmuseet, the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, has been working with the research group Interactive Institute Swedish ICT to digitally scan their eight human mummies as part of preparations for a new permanent exhibition. …
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Dancing Math
Europe 24 – European Air Traffic Visualized
Graphene
If the Moon were only 1 pixel
ViziCities pre-release
The weight of rain
When I’m looking at data, I’m looking for little “Aha!” moments that I can point to, and say “Look here, something happened,” and then try to explain. Often those small moments can help lead a reader into the graphic, or help to explain the whole. And then he switches over to Mars Rover and Kepler …