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How 'bout a new term:"NewsViz"?

 Many of us are commonly using the term “data visualization”or “dataviz”or even “infoviz.” Perhaps we should add to the lexicon “newsviz.” If so,you saw it here first. Maybe. In any event,check out this interesting page at Slate.

News Dots:The Day's Events as a Social NetworkAn interactive map of how every story in the news is related,updated daily.

By Chris Wilson

Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars,topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together,News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as …[...]

February 27th,2010 | Category:Main Page,VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment

Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti

From FastCompany:

Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti BY ANYA KAMENETZFri Feb 19,2010


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An aid worker from the European Commission holds a PDF printout from OpenStreetMaps.

The humanitarian relief effort underway in Haiti is proving the true potential of open source map building. Don't take my word for it,follow the Tweets and blogs of my friend Schuyler Erle. He's on the ground in Port-au-Prince along with Tom Buckley,a developer of mapmaking program GeoCommons Maker. The pair are advising the World Bank on …[...]

February 20th,2010 | Category:JAGIS (Journalism &GIS),Main Page | Leave a comment

"2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced"

Press Release 10-028 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=116369&org=NSF Winning entries appear in the Feb. 19 issue of Science “Branching Morphogenesis”aims to reveal–through abstraction–the unseen beauty and dynamic relationships that exist between endothelial cells and their surrounding extracellular microenvironment. Movies of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3-D matrix were analyzed [...]

February 20th,2010 | Category:Main Page,VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment

"2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced"

Press Release 10-028 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=116369&org=NSF Winning entries appear in the Feb. 19 issue of Science “Branching Morphogenesis”aims to reveal–through abstraction–the unseen beauty and dynamic relationships that exist between endothelial cells and their surrounding extracellular microenvironment. Movies of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3-D matrix were analyzed [...]

February 20th,2010 | Category:Main Page,VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment

Review:The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics

From FlowingData:

 

Review:The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics Feb 18,2010 / Infographics,Reviews / Add your comment

Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong,former graphics director of The Wall Street [...]

February 18th,2010 | Category:Main Page,VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment

"Predicting the Next Enron"

Thanks to Steve Doig for the pointer:

Freakonomics –New York Times Blog February 17,2010,3:00 pm Predicting the Next Enron By FREAKONOMICS Via the Wall Street Journal,here’s further evidence that companies “tweak” quarterly earnings numbers. Joseph Grundfest and Nadya Malenko analyzed almost half a million earnings reports from 1980-2006. They discovered [...]

February 17th,2010 | Category:Main Page | Leave a comment

"GIS Data Show Relationship Between Violence,Liquor Retailers"

From:http://gisandscience.com/2010/02/17/gis-data-show-relationship-between-violence-liquor-retailers/

GIS Data Show Relationship Between Violence,Liquor Retailers

February 17,2010 in GIS,Social Science

Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

18 – 22 February 2010,San Diego,California

As cities grapple with liquor-related violence,new data suggests zoning commissions may want to [...]

February 17th,2010 | Category:Main Page | Leave a comment

New book:"GIS for Public Safety"

This looks to be a good book on backgrounding how police use —or do not use —GIS so a reporter can ask informed questions. Oh,did I mention that it's free?

http://www.rutgerscps.org/gisbook/dwnld39629.html

“From the BACK COVER This book,GIS for Public Safety,focuses on ESRI’s ArcGIS functionality (the most popular [...]

February 16th,2010 | Category:JAGIS (Journalism &GIS),Main Page | Leave a comment

How-to:Turning Netflix data into map

From the Society of Newspaper Designers via FlowingData:

The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic

January 20th,2010

By Kevin Quealy

One of The Times’ recent graphics,“A Peek Into Netflix Queues,” ended up being one of our more popular graphics of the past few months. (A good [...]

February 8th,2010 | Category:Main Page,VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment