It’s easy to forget just how many planes are in the skies above us. Flight Stream, a startling WebGL visualization of global flight data, is a good reminder. Created by San Francisco-based British developer, Callum Prentice, it maps flights as pulsing dots on a zoomable, rotatable world.
The Web app allows you to change the speed and size of how flights are represented and the opacity of the trails they leave as they criss-cross the globe.
Prentice says the map currently shows routes based on data from Open Flights but hopes to use live info in a future version. Devs can take a look at his code and some other cool projects on GitHub.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis
The ACM's Queue magazine has a new, comprehensive taxonomy of visualization techniques drawing from the theories of Edward Tufte and citing examples from academia, government, and the excellent NYT visualization team. This list contains 12 steps for turning data into a compelling visualization: Visualize, Filter, Sort, Derive, Select, Navigate, Coordinate, Organize, Record, Annotate, Share, & Guide. "For developers, the taxonomy can function as a checklist of elements to consider when creating new analysis tools." The citations alone make this an artucle worth bookmarking.
Another interesting reference article:
A TOUR THROUGH THE VISUALIZATION ZOO: A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure.
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