Data & Stuff // Neil Houston

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.

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.