"Martin Krzywinski developed Circos, an open source visualization tool that arranges tabular data in circular form. It was a simple idea, but transformative: It’s since been used for thousands of visualizations, and its distinctive aesthetic is synonymous with the informational richness of our moment."
Google Earth can be used as a tool to visualize trends and growth in real estate. This 3 videos show historical real estate information in a very compelling way for 3 major american cities: Chicago, New York, San Francisco over the past 150 years.
Web usability consultant Jakob Nielsen recently gave an 'At Google' talk about mobile usability and where it’s headed.
"Nielsen was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems in the mid-nineties. He co-founded usability consulting company Nielsen Norman Group, and writes a web design newsletter called Alertbox. He is also credited with founding the “discount usability engineering” movement, which helps designers make changes to their interfaces quickly and inexpensively."
"Long before sustainability became a buzzword, architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically-sound building materials such as cardboard tubes and paper."
"His remarkable structures are often intended as temporary housing, designed to help the dispossessed in disaster-struck nations such as Haiti, Rwanda or Japan. Yet equally often the buildings remain a beloved part of the landscape long after they have served their intended purpose."
The World We Want is a platform created by the United Nations and civil society to amplify people's voices in the process of building a global agenda for sustainable development.
The World We Want will gather the priorities of people from every corner of the world and help build a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015, one that is based on the aspirations of all citizens!
"The mission of an interactive map of Mars: Be cool, engaging and above all, shareable. That's how Eric Rodenbeck describes how his team at Stamen Design approaches its work creating maps from publicly available NASA data, among many projects. IB Times talked to the Stamen founder and CEO about the process."
