for the tenth consecutive december in a row, the ‘new york times magazine’ …has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas… and well worth a look it is too some really nice, silly, smart and odd ideas bundled together… as americans tend to say ‘that’s neat’
…instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world…
beautiful data visualisation project from ‘paul butler’ an intern at facebook, see a hi-res version also here
my name is ‘nicholas felton’ i’m a graphic designer…
(on an ipad? here’s the link…sort it out apple)
…and four minutes: of mixed live-action/infographics bonanza, complete with nutty-professor & led lights
ali versus foreman, the big fight in downtown kinshasa, translated into a beautiful looking graphic
