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You will never forget how to make the best pancakes again. The Essential Dessert Recipes Sticker is the original sticker to be a quirky, decorative and eco-friendly way to remind you the top 4 dessert recipes.

Found via andren / Functional Wall Stickers « Eight:48

A true and accurate depiction of the layers of the earth as discovered by modern science.

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Understanding Shakespeare / Book

Understanding Shakespeare is the B.A. thesis project of Stephan Thiel at the Interfacedesign program of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Its goal is to introduce a new form of reading drama to help understand Shakespeare’s works in new and insightful ways and to address our changed habits of consuming narrative works and knowledge through the capabilities of information visualization.

As a result, and based on data from the WordHoard project of the Northwestern University, an application of computational tools was explored in order to extract and visualize the information found within the text and to reveal its underlying narrative algorithm. The five approaches presented here are the first step towards a dicussion of this potentionally new form of reading in an attempt to regain interest in the literary and cultural heritage of Shakespeare’s works among a general audience.

The visualizations were designed as large scale prints (90cm x ~220cm) for an exhibition scenario that would enable a broad audience to re-understand Shakespeare. They were created using mainly Processing and toxiclibs (for geometry and color calculations) as well as several other Natural Language Processing libraries (i.e. Classifier4J). Please be aware that the experience of these works might differ substantially between the web and the original printed version.

The End of Privacy: Entire City to Track People With Public Eye Scanners - via davereed

“The City of Leon, Mexico, is installing real time iris scanners from biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. These scanners don’t require people to stop and put their eyes in front of a camera. They work in real time.

“From large scanners—capable of identifying 50 people per minute in motion— to smaller ones—like the EyeSwipe in the video above—that range from 15 to 30 people per minute, these devices are being installed in public places, like train and bus stations, and connected to a database that will track people across the city.

“According to Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers, ‘If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. Certainly for others, boarding a plane will be impossible.’

“The retinal scanning of Leon’s one million population has started already with its convicted criminals. Citizens with no criminal records have been offered the opportunity to ‘voluntarily’ scan their eyes.”

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Coping with Crisis by Hyperakt [Infographic]

“GOOD Magazine asked us to work on this series of data visualizations for a United Nations brochure titled Voices of the Vulnerable. The pieces illustrate the devastating effects of recession.”

I love this graphic. It’s clean, concise and straight to the point. It’s refreshing to see such a slick alternative to the myriad of messy infographics I’ve seen (and been disheartened by) of late.

Reblogged from vizualize

Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott

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The Social Universe. By @jess3

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What is Data Science?

Data Science cheatsheet from O’Reilly Radar. The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it — that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades. What is Data Science .pdf

This is fantastic. I want to challenge someone to a chartoff duel.

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Just How Bad Is the Summer Air Quality in Your City?