Data & Stuff // Neil Houston

These are my links for January 5th through January 18th:

• Visualisations Applications – A huge resource of services, links and other related visualisations tools.
• Redesigning the Boarding Pass – Journal – Boarding Pass / Fail – Showing how a boarding pass could be redesigned, to allow for clearer understanding and conveying of the important information.
• Crayon | Luxirare – An interesting mix of food and design.
• Andy Huntington Interaction & Sound » Datadecs – For Christmas 2009 the Really Interesting Group wanted to create a a gift comprising a series of 4 unique decorations based on each recipient’s use of the Flickr, Dopplr, Last.fm and Twitter. Having used a couple of the software APIs they were thinking about using (flickr and dopplr) and with experience of rapid prototyping we worked together to turn the data into something physical.
• 9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide | FlowingData – A nice post about size, and proportions in graphics.