Die Gestalten: "The New York Times: All The News That's Fit to Post"
From the "I thought this was a good idea" department, the New York Times today, in writing about a new exhibit in London, recognizes the incredible growth in information design. The exhibit in the new Galleries of Modern London in the Museum of London features the seminal maps of philanthropist and social reformer Charles Booth created from 1886 through 1903. The maps, called The Descriptive Maps of London Poverty, color each street to indicate the income of its residents. If it weren't for pioneers like Booth, information design wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.
Nike launched a lovely eye-popping twitter tracker called Nike NBA today to track the popularity of the teams in the playoffs, measured by tweet frequency.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=8f548f45-37f7-4d84-bde6-4425465923a1)
Sometimes I feel like this blog is a booster for the New York Times Interactive Graphics team but it is difficult not to write about such great examples of interactive data visualizations. Today's map is most likely only of interest to dataviz geeks and New Yorkers. It is a simple visualization of the subway ridership numbers for last year by station. It accompanies an article explaining some of the huge swings and how they correlate to the local economy. Let me know what you think.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=a01dd77a-3e78-402c-850a-5d46071bf6ad)
A simple concept, Solar Beat is a music box looping the orbital frequencies of our own solar system. Created by Luke Wyman's of Whitevinyl, the UK-based designer translated astrophysics into a pleasing ambient soundtrack for a musical experience. While it may take 248 "earth years" for Pluto to chime in, it seems worth it.
The relatively obscure and multi-talented illustrator, photographer, web developer and musician behind the band Neverest continues to fly beneath the radar despite some rave reviews.
The United States Census Bureau has a great interactive map tracking the response rates of each city in the country. The site is specifically tracking the relationship between how long a city is taking to send in their surveys in 2010 versus how long it took them in 2000.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=fcb257a7-952c-4709-81ca-18284960804e)
worship/slam of data gathering and analysis.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=aee302c7-47c8-4880-b9e3-1462ce7a1a99)
The USDA just released a new tool called Your Food Environment Atlas which is essentially a giant interactive mapping data visualization about food in the US. It is a county-by-county mapping tool that draws data from USDA's Economic Research Service and mixes 90 different sets of data about Food Choices, Health and Well-Being and Community Characteristics (such as demographic, income and amenities data).![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=8aa1cfa8-55e3-4110-83a9-da55572527f6)
While the graphs are both beautiful and accurate, one of the major concerns is using java as this language is particularly slow.
Regardless, Clark is paving the way for how we use and view information, especially relating to business and social activity. Read more about his data visualizations and see more stunning examples from his website. 
Calling daily on the people he met who he felt "had discerned enough of my personality and activities" to submit a record of the encounter through an online survey, the designer tracked responses and used his own subjective analysis to come up with the data set. While Felton acknowledges the variations in accuracy his methods produce, he explains that he "strives to sort and collate the data in a clinical and repeatable manner that could be reproduced by someone looking for the same stories I have selected. "
Felton also notes that the volume of data was so unwieldy it could have easily spiraled into several more reports. To manage all of the information (and keep his sanity), he enlisted the help of such tools as Processing and Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The final product once again makes an intriguingly elegant representation of an individual's activities over the course of a year--this time recorded under the surveillance of his peers.
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Taking data visualizing to a conceptual level, Danish design studio Hvass&Hannibal's upcoming exhibition "Losing the Plot" at London's Kemistry Gallery engagingly reinterprets info into artworks. (Click on all images for expanded view)
The Copenhagen-based duo created silkscreen prints, wooden sculptures and offset posters, beautifully and tangibly expressing data sets such as the probability theory or the registration of natural phenomena. Adding their own sensitivity to hard statistics, the multimedia designers imagine the data in bold colors, sometimes playing on traditional geometric shapes and at other times turning to more abstract imagery.
The unconventional approach isn't a stretch for Hvass&Hannibal who dropped out of grad school to design full time. Their broad spectrum of work includes album covers, illustrations, installations, music videos, art direction and the team recently offered their design knowledge as guest bloggers on "It's Nice That."
In addition to the works in the show, Kemistry will sell a series of silkscreen prints.
Losing the Plot
15 January-27 February 2010
Kemistry Gallery
43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD map
tel. +44 (0)20 7729 3636
Stemming from a childhood fascination of a weather ball on the top of a bank building in Minneapolis, I am intrigued by Tomorrow's Weather, a double helix sculpture in Denmark comprised of over 60 molecular globes. 
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