As BackBytes says: "...a picture made up of all the exciting things you’ve said on Twitter printed very small, making it simultaneously very profound and entirely meaningless."
Purchase your TweetPortrait at Firebox.
So who will you get one for?
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Saturday, November 05, 2011
Fun On Friday #127: TweetPortrait
What do you give the Twitterati who has everything this Christmas? Thanks to Computing's BackBytes and How to look like a total tweet! you need wonder no more!
As BackBytes says: "...a picture made up of all the exciting things you’ve said on Twitter printed very small, making it simultaneously very profound and entirely meaningless."
Purchase your TweetPortrait at Firebox.
So who will you get one for?
As BackBytes says: "...a picture made up of all the exciting things you’ve said on Twitter printed very small, making it simultaneously very profound and entirely meaningless."
Purchase your TweetPortrait at Firebox.
So who will you get one for?
Friday, August 19, 2011
Fun On Friday #119: Webify Me
I downloaded and installed the latest version of Firefox and followed a link to their Webify Me page. It claims to let you...
See your Internet as a custom collage.Here's a picture of my collage:
You can click on the graphic to see an interactive version that explains what all the different parts represent. To be honest, I think it's more than a little off in places. Specifically, it has me down as a "Gear Head" as represented by a car magazine! Nah! Not even close.
Have a go yourself, post a link in a comment and let me know how close you think it got to you.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
LWF11 - David McCandless, Author & Information Designer
Visualising Information
David (author of the Design Is Beautiful blog) says we are in a blizzard of information - we need to be able to design ways of visualising data in a way that can make them beautiful, that can make them tell a story, that can make them more understandable.
We can see connections when visualised properly. David showed some Billion Dollar O Grams which try to build a bridge to see the proportions and to help us make sense of it. Our minds find it difficult to make sense of huge numbers.
He showed a graph of world fear as reported in the media. It was fascinating to see patterns and cycles emerge. One interesting aspect was the way all the fears dipped at the start of the war in Afghanistan - a time when real fears pushed out the more manufactured ones.
Also talked about the need to contextualise data. For example, China has the largest army but when you compare it to the size of its population it drops way down the table.
"Let the data set change your mindset." -- Hans Rosling
Visualising lets you summarise and condense information. Also, by creating the visualistion, you can learn about yourself in the process.
David (author of the Design Is Beautiful blog) says we are in a blizzard of information - we need to be able to design ways of visualising data in a way that can make them beautiful, that can make them tell a story, that can make them more understandable.
We can see connections when visualised properly. David showed some Billion Dollar O Grams which try to build a bridge to see the proportions and to help us make sense of it. Our minds find it difficult to make sense of huge numbers.
He showed a graph of world fear as reported in the media. It was fascinating to see patterns and cycles emerge. One interesting aspect was the way all the fears dipped at the start of the war in Afghanistan - a time when real fears pushed out the more manufactured ones.
Also talked about the need to contextualise data. For example, China has the largest army but when you compare it to the size of its population it drops way down the table.
"Let the data set change your mindset." -- Hans Rosling
Visualising lets you summarise and condense information. Also, by creating the visualistion, you can learn about yourself in the process.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Fun on Friday #8: Retro graphics
I'm a bit late again with my Fun on Friday but not because I was stuck for ideas. (I had two to choose from this week!) Lots of busyness at work and then a fireworks party at night.
So what's the fun this Friday? Well, a hint can be found in this Dilbert cartoon:
Fun though Dilbert is, he is just the introduction to the real fun:
Great fun, slightly easier to use than real etch-a-sketch (in my humble opinion) and doesn't suffer from the ghosting effect that you can see on an old Etch-a-Sketch. Surely,this is what the Internet was designed for!
So what's the fun this Friday? Well, a hint can be found in this Dilbert cartoon:
Fun though Dilbert is, he is just the introduction to the real fun:
Great fun, slightly easier to use than real etch-a-sketch (in my humble opinion) and doesn't suffer from the ghosting effect that you can see on an old Etch-a-Sketch. Surely,this is what the Internet was designed for!
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