umami.is
umami.isI'm trying out umami for visitor stats on my site and so far it's easy to install (yay, Docker all the things!) and looks great.
visualization
fire.airnow.gov
fire.airnow.govWith The West on fire, you might need a good visualization of where fires are and where smoke is headed.
nytimes.com
nytimes.com"At every crucial moment, American officials were weeks or months behind the reality of the outbreak. Those delays likely cost tens of thousands of lives."The weakness of positive thinking visualized.
Interesting visualization of the disparity between the ultra-rich and others. This might indicate a problem with the system?
davidrumsey.comThis is a fun site to browse for visual inspiration. It has high-resolution scans of historic maps and map-adjacent documents that you can zoom around to see details. I've been going back to the data visualization category and the illustrated maps are pretty great too. Here's the origin story of this project.
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The media people are sharing on social networks via Embedly.
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The top articles flowing through Readability.
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A good infographic about media consolidation. This is why it's important to find, consume, and support independent everything.
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Write an HTML5/JavaScript app and PhoneGap will turn it into a native app for various mobile devices including iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
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Still in Alpha, but this looks like a great way to speed-up mobile site development. The form elements demo is impressive.
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Another JavaScript charting library.
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JavaScript visualization library.
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More Google Books Ngrams fun.
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"The ability to quantify things that had once been subjective 'hunches' on the part of scholars...is nothing short of revolutionary."
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"...a new project available in Google Labs today - Books Ngram Viewer - highlights some of the other benefits of digitizing texts beyond better reading and storage."
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Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]
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Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]
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This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]
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Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.
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Nice interactive visualization that shows the current time across major time zones.
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Nice flowchart by Julian Hansen featuring 50 popular fonts.