Power of Data Visualization

Bike lanes in New York City exposed a clash of long-standing bad habits: such as pedestrians jaywalking, cyclists running red lights, and motorists plowing through crosswalks. This video aims to show our interconnection and shared role in improving the safety and usability of our streets.

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The relationship between speed cameras and road deaths.

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This visualization is a research study by Donald Appleyard, plotting connections between neighbors to show how interconnected an area of light traffic is compared to high-traffic.

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We all use twitter, write emails, skype and blog all day long. There isn’t a single day we are not going to visit websites like google, youtube, the website of our favorite newspaper or social network and browse through the web. Despite that, or actually because of it, everybody tends to use the web in a different manner.

To visualize this fact and the traces we leave on our journey through the internet and to reveal some of the hidden patterns of our everyday online life, weave magazine asked onformative to create a data visualization of the online activity of several interaction designers, artists and developers.

By analyzing your personal internet traffic logfile using the custom written software you get a distinctive and unique visualization of your online activities.

Collecting the Data : Download LogTool
Analyzing & Visualizing : Download Visualization Sourcecode
How to do - tutorial: Weave Data Tutorial

Americans spend many hours in traffic each year, slowly crawling between work and home. And while most commutes are unpleasant, some are far more congested. Why? A new study by CEOs for Cities has found that what creates traffic jams isn’t more cars and fewer highways, it’s sprawl. This is a look at the 10 metropolitan areas whose citizens spend the most and least extra time in traffic due to sprawl, out of 51 cities studied.

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