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Showing posts with label measuring and mapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label measuring and mapping. Show all posts
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Karte Von Australien
I found these great old maps of Australia from the University of Melbourne Library. They have a whole online collection of maps, not just from Australia but also Asia and the Middle East, as well as a whole collection of maps on Turkey/Constantinople dating as far back at 1493.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
peter orntoft
providing a social as well as statistical context are these great info diagrams by danish designer peter orntoft:
"I have used the context of specific opinion polls within each interest to shape and design diagrams. By doing so the receiver understands more layers of information about the data".
information is beautiful
David McCandless is the brains behind the amazing website 'information is beautiful' and the book, The Visual Miscellaneum, which presents both quantitative and qualitative data in easy to understand and engaging 'infographics'. For a stats nerd like me, this is pretty much maths at it greatest!
McCandless contributes to the Guardian data blog, which is worth a read, if only to marvel at his beautiful and well thought-out design
Both images below from McCandless' website. The first one is a plot of rising sea levels and the cities that are at risk for inundation. The second is a diagram depicting the words used most commonly in horoscopes divided by star-sign - I had a feeling that I was going to meet an interesting stranger!
McCandless contributes to the Guardian data blog, which is worth a read, if only to marvel at his beautiful and well thought-out design
Both images below from McCandless' website. The first one is a plot of rising sea levels and the cities that are at risk for inundation. The second is a diagram depicting the words used most commonly in horoscopes divided by star-sign - I had a feeling that I was going to meet an interesting stranger!
McCandless also posts links to other like-minded geniuses, one of which did an amazing 'solar system music box'. have a listen.
Finally, this is too great not to pop up here. It's McCandless' diagram mapping films that involve space travel and where they would have met up in time. Click on the image to make it bigger and release your nerd within.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
measuring and mapping
here's a theme with enough mathematical rigour to engage my co-author, and enough aesthetic nicety to keep me occupied too... welcome to this week's theme - measuring and mapping!
to get the ball rolling (little pun there for my dad, not sure if he's one of our 4 readers but you never know), here are some beautiful customised globes of the world - the delightful bastard offspring of our good friends geography and decoupage.
to get the ball rolling (little pun there for my dad, not sure if he's one of our 4 readers but you never know), here are some beautiful customised globes of the world - the delightful bastard offspring of our good friends geography and decoupage.
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