As seen on the April 27 broadcast of Rocketboom.com, this is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. The site is Worldmapper.
Graphic facilitator Sita Magnusan--who just returned from Afghanistan, no less!--sends us this browser-based tool for previewing every font on your whole dang system. (Turns out, I have 337!) http://www.stcassociates.com/lab/fontbrowser.html
Sterling Insights is pleased to announce our new book Preparing for Pandemic Avian Flu - A Family & Neighborhood Workbook for Emergency Readiness. A second workbook focused on pandemic issues affecting business continuity is in the works.
Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories
This book is an interdisciplinary anthology on mapping from urban cartography to data visualization.
4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1 by Jemima Pereira. Free for any use. Hover over the wheel to view colors and click to choose a web-smart color.
New time line chart from Disaster Timelines: 100 Years of Seismic Safety in California, prepared for the California Seismic Safety Commission as part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It provides an Interesting example of innovative and sustained state level actions regarding earthquake hazards.
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information.
Social Entrepreneurs are unique creatures. They have the usual chutzpah and gumption that marks that traditional bootstrapping self-starter Michael J. Fox businessman we all know and love from TVLand. However, they have the unusual talent of looking at massive social and systemic problems and seeing economic opportunity. They tend to create businesses that do well by doing good.
In January more than 800 people — soldiers, security officers and civilians — were killed as a result of the insurgency in Iraq. While the daily toll is noted in the newspapers and on TV, it is hard for many Americans to see these isolated reports in a broader context. The map, based on data from the American, British and Iraqi governments and news reports, shows the dates, locations and circumstances of deaths for the first month of the year.
Located in Orlando, Florida, Sente Co. has positioned the firm as applying visualization to conference services and producing not only captivating graphics during presentations, but also constructing complex animated story maps, websites and book-length conference summaries.