Category Archives: visualization

The Internet’s secret sauce: surfacing coincidence

What is it that makes my favorite online services so compelling? I’m talking about the whole family of services that includes Dopplr, Wesabe, Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us among others. I find it interesting that people don’t generally refer to any … Continue reading

Posted in behavior, community, creativity, data, delicious, design, dopplr, edge, flickr, future, ideas, innovation, internet, models, network effects, platform, programmableweb, recommendations, social media, strategy, transparency, trends, twitter, visualization, web services, wesabe | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Oakland Trib’s Not-Just-A-Number improves on crime data visualization

OJR’s Jim Wayne dives into Oakland Tribune’s “Not Just A Number” web site. The service won the Service Journalism Award from ONA for an amazingly powerful view of crime data. The basic premise was to create a data visualization for … Continue reading

Posted in crime, data, design, guns, journalism, law, los angeles, oakland, violence, visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Ikea ruined my floors

My second child is due next week. I intended to reconfigure our 1-bedroom house to create 2-bedrooms so that all 4 of us and the dog could spread out a bit. Some amazing software from Google and Ikea made me … Continue reading

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Crime data stories

My Potrero Hill neighbors tell me that the sweet song of crackling firearms in the evening always begins again in May as the days get longer, hotter and schoolless. Recently, I witnessed a sample of the gun play happening in … Continue reading

Posted in 94107, chicago, crime, data, denver, design, guns, law, maps, mashups, new orleans, politics, potrero hill, visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments