Data & Stuff

Spotted: March 8th – March 25th:

• Main : Stefanie Posavec – Take a quick look over the site of Stefanie Posavec, some interesting pieces of work are present. Including her cover for the new OK GO album.
• LukeW | Web App Masters: Design Lessons from 350 Million – An interesting set of points that Facebook have learnt from over time, with applicable transfer to other peoples sites, including Kitecrowd.
• London – South of the River Tube Stations – What if most the tube stations were in south london? This is a nice simple visualisation.
• Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Foursquare, the location app are rolling out new features to businesses, who will be able to see a range of real-time data about Foursquare usage.
• Google – Public Data – The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

If the alien race was to visit the UK, where do you think they might go?  The bright lights of London, perhaps upto Edinburgh for some history or maybe in the delights of Wiltshire.

Thanks to the Guardian Datastore we have the list of every crop circle in the UK, for 2009, with grid co-ordinates.  So it’s a perfect opportunity to see which places the aliens love to visit:

So it looks like Wiltshire has a lot of activity, which we can focus in on.

Thanks to the Guardian for the data, in both cases above you can click to see the map in more detail.