Other projects, not blogged about before on this site, include Making Water a Matter of Race [time.com], Afghanistan Election Data [afghanistanelectiondata.org] and Haiti OpenStreetMap Edits [itoworld.blogspot.com].

Watch the movie below.

See also another recent TED talk about a powerful data visualization tool developed by Microsoft: "Live Labs Pivot: A Massive Interactive Zoom on Data".

The new movie, which itself seems to be inspired by the visual zooming effects from the presentation software Prezi, defines Google as an advertising giant whose main goal is to track users and deliver targeted ads.

For the appropiate counter argumentation, you can read the following post at the official Google Operating System blog.

You can watch the movie below.

For every note played on the keyboard, a stripe appears of which the dimensions, position and color correspond to the way the particular key was stroke. The length and vertical position of stripe is mapped unto the velocity, while the stripe's width reflects the length of each note. By mapping the color wheel on the circle of 5ths, the colors give the viewer (and listener) an impression of the harmonic relations. Notes belonging to one specific tonality correspond to colors from one specific area of the color wheel. Therefore each key has its own color scheme and "wrong" notes stand out in contrasting colors. The more different tonalities a music piece has, the more colorful the resulting visualization will be.

As all the stripes do not disappear, the resulting representation is able to convey insights about the composition as well as the specific performance: Which notes were played the most? Which were the loudest notes? Which range of the keys was played mostly? How harmonically constant was the music?

Watch the visualization in action below.

"Right now, in this world, we think about data as being this curse, we talk about the curse of information overload, drowning in data. What if we can turn that upside down, so that instead of navigating from one thing to the next, we get used to the habit of being able to go from many things to many things and then being able to see the patterns that were otherwise hidden."

Watch the video of the talk below.

What will it enable in the world of data visualization that was not possible before?

For all those of you who missed the quite tight submission deadline, here is some very good news:
Submissions are still possible until March 21! Make sure to check out the rules about the style, maximum length, important dates, etc. at the IV'10 website (click on "Papers"). Here some answers to the questions we received so far: we accept long and short papers and posters, although long papers are much preferred. After successfully passing the double-blind peer-review process, all accepted submissions will be published as full academic publications in the official conference proceedings by IEEE and thus be available online for all to see.

Again - we are looking forward to your submissions and do not hesitate to get in touch, if there might be any open questions left!

This post was written by Moritz Stefaner, a researcher and freelance practitioner on the crossroads of design and information visualization. Occasionally, he blogs at well-formed-data.net.

The suggested words appear in the order in which Google suggests them. Each word is connected by a line of varying thickness representing the relative number of search results for a given Google search on the phrases which that word.

The suggestions provided by Google Suggest represent real searches which in all likelihood have been performed millions of times each by people from all around the world.

More detailed information is available on the author's blog.

See also the Joy of Revelation, which is based on the same data.

Thnkx Michael!

The full size version is available below (by courtesy of Vizworld).

See also Animals on the Underground, Subway Map Bathroom Tiling, Redesigned NY Subway Map, Subway-Style Trend Maps, and Time-Based Subway Map.

Via Vizworld and Gizmodo.

Thnkx Peter!

In contrast, Crumpled City Maps [pizzolorusso.com] proposes to use a soft, yet hard-wearing, waterproof material (Dupont™ Tyvek®) that is meant to be creased and crumpled. One can place a particular area on the palm of a hand to spot street names then just screw it up, stuff it back into its case or trousers' pocket, and carry on.

Currently in production, Pizzolorusso hopes to release the maps soon, which will include London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Berlin.

If you are interested in new forms of physical maps, be also sure to check out Panamap (a recent resurrection of the previously blogged but registered trade name-clashing Dynamap).

Via Cool Hunting.

Each initiation seems to start from another (random?) set of keywords, so sometimes it is worth to reload the page or select individual tags to experience the potential of animating a network view by highlighting relative proximity instead of direct connectivity (edges).

Via Visual Complexity.

In short, the innovative infographic attempts to communicate the relative competitiveness and closeness of each race in a more effective way by using sound instead of graphics. Here, the time spans of other athletes who finished after the winner are represented by playing music notes in an identical rhythm.

For instance, Annette Gerritsen of the Netherlands, in the women's 1,000-meter speedskating race, lost by only 0.02 of a second, "about the time it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings."

Via @datamarket.