Data & Stuff // Neil Houston

Spotted: May 24th – July 22nd:

• http://flowingdata.com/2010/04/12/data-underload-17-famous-movie-quotes-p-2/ – Movie Quotes as Infographics
• Social media, BMW and the way forward | litmanlive.co.uk – Social media, BMW and the way forward
• Web design birmingham | Web site design west midlands | Branding | Interior design | Design agency birmingham | 383 Project » Such Tweet Sorrow Infographic – Birmingham agency 383 have produced an infographic of the information from the Twitter version of Romeo & Juliet, #SuchTweetSorrow
• IRE – Social-network analysis – The next step in data analysis<br />
  IRE and NICAR members are beginning to explore the uses of social network analysis for visualizing and diagramming relationships between individuals and businesses and institutions. <br />
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  This is a new approach for journalists, but other professions have utilized this approach for decades for a wide range of research projects such as analyzing:
• iA » Cosmic 140—Final Beta – This time, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said. It took quite some time until we had it in the shape we envisioned.

Spotted: May 6th – May 18th:

• 5 Interesting Data Articles | blog.infochimps.org – Inspired by Pete Warden’s Five Short Links, we decided we’d put up a post about the most interesting data articles we’ve come across in the recent months.
• 30Days to context connection – PDF – A 30 day calendar of useful visualisation, and other learning aides.
• The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook – A nice segmented chart showing how privacy has chnaged over time on Facebook.
• Social circle and content – Google – Google Social Search / Circle
• Nicholas Felton’s Master Class – Nicholas Felton's Master Class – Visual notes, interesting insights on how the Annual reports evolved and onto how to create your own data visualisations.