The recent academic paper "Multiplexed Volumetric Bar-Chart Chip for Point-of-Care Diagnostics" [nature.com], developed by researchers at the Department of Nanomedicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas, presents the research behind the V-Chip (short for Volumetric Bar-Chart Chip).
The chip is about the size of a
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null_sets [evanmeaney.com], developed by artist Evan Meaney in collaboration with the Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Center (RDAV) , consists of a collection of abstract data-based images that explore the gap between "data" and "information".
An open source, custom-made script encodes any text file as an images, in order to visualize both
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Beef Stakes, designed by art and technology student Sarah Hallacher, is a data representation of the amount of beef produced in the US during 2011, scaled down to only include the top 4 beef-producing states.
The height of each steak is mapped to the amount of beef that state produced (i.e. 1 inch per every billion pounds). The price tags show the
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The Organic Organization Chart [autodeskresearch.com], developed by Justin Matejka at Autodesk Research, shows what a Human Resources manager dreams at night.
The animated force-directed network diagram shows how a company's structure evolves over time, here the daily organizational changes within the company Autodesk over the last 4 years.
The
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StatMilk is for a general sports fans like what Weather Spark is for people who like to talk about the weather.
As an increasing number of sports fans and reporters tend to rely on statistics to gauge the quality of their division, teams and players as well as their upcoming opponents, there is an expectation that team sports performance data
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Novel Views [neoformix.com], developed by Jeff Clarck, showcases 4 different visualizations of the text appearing in the novel Les Misérables, which itself spans about 48 books and 365 chapters.
The "Character Mentions" graphic shows where the names of the primary characters are mentioned within the text. The "Radial Word Connections" reveals
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Census Dotmap [bmander.com], developed by computational urban planner Brandon Martin-Anderson, maps every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses as a single dot. Consequently, the map contains about 341,817,095 dots - one for each person.
Technically, as the available census data is only available on a block level, all dots are
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Asterank 3D Asteroid Orbit Space Simulation [asterank.com], developed by software engineer Ian Webster, is a 3D WebGL-based model of the first 5 planets and the 30 most valuable asteroids, together with their respective orbits in our inner solar system.
Asterank's database contains the astronomically accurate locations, as well as some economic and
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7 September 1940 was the start of the The Blitz, the sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Germany during the Second World War. London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 57 consecutive nights. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged, and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, almost half of them in London.
SGV Money is an abbreviated name for "Socially Generative Visualization about Money" [visualnews.com].
Developed by information design studio ColumnFive to promote their recent book Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling, this visualization demonstrates the power of nudging the actual end-users to submit the actual data that is
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