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Filed under 'visualization'

January 24, 2011

Trulia - Rent vs. Buy Index (Q1 2011)

The first fruit of the purchase of Movity by Trulia: Visualization of the cities in the US where it makes more sense to rent than to purchase (unsurprisingly, SF falls into this category)

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InMaps - Visualize your LinkedIn network

This is just lovely. Visualization of your LinkedIn graph, auto sorted into clusters. Interesting to see that, for example, my SF (pale blue) and Boston (purple) non-co-worker geek friends were easily filtered from each other.

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November 22, 2010

Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day

Visualization of the samples on the new Girl Talk album. Amazing!

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July 1, 2010

How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters

Lovely vid from the NYT. As a Sox fan, I loathe Mariano Rivera, for he is so damned good.

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June 7, 2010

If San Francisco Crime was Elevation

You’d get out of breath walking up Tenderloin Mountain. Fun visualization.

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June 2, 2010

Slide’s Code: 2004-2010

Inspired by Daniel Bogan's visualization of the Flickr codebase (http://vimeo.com/11876335), I pulled together this view of Slide's code repository since the first commit on 01-Sep-2004.



Branches are directories, blobs are files (coloured by file type -- swfs are green, python is pale blue, etc), and the buzzing-around things are committers.



Built using Gource - http://code.google.com/p/gource/

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June 1, 2010

In Perspective: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

Move the BP oil spill close to geography you know to gain perspective on its size.

May 21, 2010

Flickr/Gource

Seven years of Flickr source control, visualized. I think I would make my laptop weep if I attempted to run gource against the (16 gigabyte!) Slide git repo.

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September 14, 2009

August 8, 2009

Caffeine and Calories

A helpful chart for the dieting coffee-fiend.

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August 2, 2009

How Different Groups Spend Their Day

Outstanding interactive infographic from the New York Times. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans spend their time, sliceable by demographic sectors.

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December 20, 2008

Twitter Venn

Enter words and see how they overlap in Twitter usage.

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November 9, 2008

2008 Electoral Cartograms

Remoulding the US electoral map based upon population, rather than geographic, size.

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October 16, 2008

Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who's the Windbag?

All manner of interesting statistics and visualizations drawn out of the presidential debate transcripts.

July 14, 2008

RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code

New Radiohead video was shot without cameras, instead using lasers to get 3D data which was visualized. Chunks of the data are available from Google, so you can have a go at processing it yourself.

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July 10, 2008

Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore

Whizzy Amazon-browsing UI, for those who like to judge books by their covers.

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June 30, 2008

Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr development

Flickr’s codebase-over-time visualized.

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June 29, 2008

What I’ve been listening to

What I’ve been listening to

My last three months worth of listening. Generated with last.fm data and Wordle.

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June 23, 2008

Facebook Map

Facebook Map

My Facebook friends, mapped out using the Nexus app.

Major constellations are marked -- improvisers sure like their own, huh?

May 26, 2008

LastGraph3

The last.fm music visualizer just upped the awesome a tad. I love the “posters” showing your artist preferences over time.

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May 21, 2008

Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

Interesting attempt by MSNBC to visualize (their own) RSS feeds.

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May 8, 2008

Processing.js

John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the <canvas> tag. John is officially one of the most scary-smart people I know.

March 25, 2008

June 1, 2007

LastGraph: Welcome

Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this!

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May 4, 2007

What have I been listening to?

Gorgeous visualization of a year’s worth of music listening. Hey! Last.FM! I would pay $50 in a heartbeat for a nice poster print of this with my own listening habits.

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April 19, 2007

disinfographics (tecznotes)

The highlights of Don Hincliffe’s loony “info” graphics which “explain” Web 2.0. I think my favourite is “The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites”. It’s gorgeously demented.

March 29, 2007

December 16, 2006

TuneGlue | Relationship Explorer

Yet another Flash musicmap explorer. This one’s from EMI and uses Last.fm relationship data.

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November 29, 2006

Your odds of dying

Graph of your odds of dying by various causes.

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November 28, 2006

Kunal Anand - Blog: Glancing alternative song structures with Graphviz

Visualizing the structure of a song, based on the pattern of words used in the lyrics.

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October 27, 2006

whitney music box

Trippy flash “music box”. With some chemicals, this could make for hours of entertainment.

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October 10, 2006

My last.fm chart arcs

My last.fm chart arcs

Funky visualization of my music listening over time from MartinD at last.fm. Read his explanation to understand what it means, or just enjoy the soothing colours.

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August 15, 2006

yes.com visualization

See what’s playing on radio stations across the USA, in realtime.

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July 3, 2006

My Book Premium Edition 500 GB Hard Drives

500Gb External USB/Firewire drive, with a nifty ambient capacity gauge on the front.


About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.