Great people around us.

I was looking through the pipes of our blogs today and found Art Fag. I had one unit with her last semester and she is really good at what she's doing. Now, I really don't want this to sound like I am some crazy stalker, but was one of those thing that just make you stop and really look when I had a look at her photo stream for Project B. She has made a story with the help of flickrs photo stream, and her photos are absolutely amazing. I reckon it is very much worth while to go in and have a look.






This image is from her tumblr site

Visualize this!

For my data visualization I googled the term to find some inspiration. And the stuff I found. There is so many ways of visualize data in so many interesting ways.
These are a few awesome ways of creative solutions:

fidg't
"Fidg’t is a desktop application that aims to let you visualize your network and its predisposition for different types of things like music and photos. Currently, the service has integrated with Flickr and last.fm, so for example, Fidg’t might show you if your network is attracted or repelled by Coldplay, or if it has a predisposition to taking photos of their weekend partying. As the service expands to support other networks (they suggest integrations with Facebook, digg, del.icio.us, and several others are in the works), this one could become very interesting."
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Digg Stacks
This is a data visualization of diggs on digg.com. It works so that the more people that diggs something on the web, the higher the stacks get. This is a real-time visualization and it is more then easy to spend a few hours here.

TagLines
"Taglines from Yahoo! Research allows you to visualize Flickr tags over time. For each day, dating back to June 4, 2004, the eight most popular tags are shown with a photo selected for each. You can view Taglines in waterfall mode, which displays eight tags and respective photos in eight rows, or in river mode, where tags and their photos “flow” from right to left."
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These are just a few examples that I found that I really thinks work perfectly. It is such a good idea to visualize something that normally would be really confusing or hard to see or simply just boring. I could really get in to this kind of designing. It is smart and very entertaining.

Make sure to check out:
walk2web
Digg RADAR
Zillow
CrazyEgg
KartOO