http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:09:52 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/data-visdesign-for-transit#post-2336 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:08:11 +0000 kpwebb 2336@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>The Mobility Lab in Arlington, VA (<a href="http://mobilitylab.org/" rel="nofollow">http://mobilitylab.org/</a>) is offering 3 paid fellowships for people interested in committing to full-time work. We've identified a few projects we believe will make transit information much more accessible to people in the DC region and beyond:</p> <p>Helping people understand bus service: The bus network is extensive but complex and hard to understand. One project will develop a prototype system to generate personalized maps inspired by London's "spider maps." We discussed these recently; now it's time to start generating some and help people sort through their bus options.</p> <p>Automating commute plans: Arlington Transportation Partners generates "commute plans" for employees of companies moving to Arlington, to help people know how to get to and from work by transit, bicycling, walking, carpool and vanpool, slugging and more. Right now, they generate these largely by hand, which limits the number they can generate. We will automate this process and add code to automatically generate useful graphics as well.</p> <p>Deploying real-time information screens: Current real-time bus and train arrival screens cost thousands of dollars, which limits their deployment to few locations. Low-cost technology can make it possible to deploy more screens that show real-time bus and train arrivals, Capital Bikeshare availability, car sharing and more. We will investigate technologies to allow for more of these screens to appear in busy commercial areas in DC, Arlington and elsewhere, either on public property or in the windows of local stores.</p> <p>The Mobility Lab is looking for 2 software development fellows and 1 visual design fellow for these projects.</p> <p>Software development fellows should be multi-talented engineers with an interest in both front and back-end software development. An interest in data visualization using modern web standards (e.g. HTML5 and SVG) or cartography is a significant plus, as is familiarity building applications using Python or Ruby based frameworks.</p> <p>Visual design fellows should be multi-talented designers with an interest in data visualization using modern web standards (e.g. HTML5 and SVG). An interest in cartography is a plus as is familiarity with web application development.</p> <p>A sense of curiosity and an interest in transportation are required for all fellows!</p> <p>Fellows will receive a stipend of $4,000 per month for work through mid-January. Fellows can start on September 12 or October 3 and will work collaboratively at the Mobility Lab during regular working hours. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to <a href="mailto:Tom.Fairchild@mobilitylab.org" rel="nofollow">Tom.Fairchild@mobilitylab.org</a>. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/global-health-stats-and-datavis#post-2076 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:23:31 +0000 ericpgreen 2076@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>My colleagues and I at the Population Council (NY, NY) are interested in meeting with folks who work at the intersection of data analysis, visualization, and design. Motion graphics, interactive maps and charts--the works. We know where we want to go, but we just need to build the team. There are no open positions today, but we expect this to change very soon. We typically hire people from a public health background, so we need to start early to find talent from other pools. Interested? Contact Eric at egreen (at) popcouncil (dot) org. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/call-for-maps-mapping-science-exhibit#post-2018 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:48:07 +0000 nathany 2018@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Exhibit has a call for maps:</p> <blockquote><p>The Places &amp; Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit was created to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: (1) physical exhibits enable the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers and (2) the online counterpart (<a href="http://scimaps.org" rel="nofollow">http://scimaps.org</a>) provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work.</p></blockquote> <p>Deadline is January 30. More details here: <a href="http://scimaps.org/call/" rel="nofollow">http://scimaps.org/call/</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/data-posted-for-last-weeks-vector-geo-visualizations#post-1770 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:06:13 +0000 bvmou 1770@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I put up an html5 canvas animated visualization of this data here:</p> <p><a href="http://sfgeo.dyndns.org/data/contrib/efishpjs/" rel="nofollow">http://sfgeo.dyndns.org/data/contrib/efishpjs/</a></p> <p>using processing.js which I learned about on this site. The data is all still available, SF is on a bit of a geovisualization tear at the moment, with todays crime stats and the interesting updates to Eric Fischer's photo series here: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/</a></p> <p>Also very much interested in whatever similar data may exist -- let me know in this thread if you have come across similar mashable geographic data sets. Would be a pleasure to donate hosting if that is an issue.</p> <p>great site Nathan! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/data-posted-for-last-weeks-vector-geo-visualizations#post-1758 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:21:45 +0000 bvmou 1758@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>I was really impressed with the Geotaggers World Atlas (see <a href="http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/25/world-atlas-of-flickr-geotaggers/" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/25/world-atlas-of-flickr-geotaggers/</a> ) last week. The creator, Eric Fischer, very graciously offered to upload the raw data and it is now available at <a href="http://sfgeo.dyndns.org" rel="nofollow">http://sfgeo.dyndns.org</a> -- the atlas project is under /data/atlas, and there is also a subsequent dataset related to San Francisco public transit. There are also now some db dumps and tools for use with postgis.</p> <p>Would love to see more work like this -- also curious what other datasets like this exist, let me know if you know of or have any, or could share if you had donated hosting. </p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/interesting-charts#post-1201 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:50:26 +0000 vincentg64 1201@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>227 pictures / maps / charts posted on Analytcbridge:<br /> URL: <a href="http://www.analyticbridge.com/photo" rel="nofollow">http://www.analyticbridge.com/photo</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-us-by-county-vector-friendly-maps#post-1076 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:19:49 +0000 kendall015 1076@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>If you choose to convert shapefiles into SVGs using ArcGIS or other software, you may want to simplify the maps first so they have fewer points. I have found this very necessary while creating a similar project (in Flex, though). You can do that for free at the following URL: <a href="http://mapshaper.com/test/demo.html" rel="nofollow">http://mapshaper.com/test/demo.html</a></p> <p>In theory you can simplify SVGs using inkscape, but I don't know how. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-us-by-county-vector-friendly-maps#post-1074 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:15:44 +0000 indiemaps 1074@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Indieprojector freely converts shapefiles and KMLs to SVG, maintaining all layers and features for later display, interaction, animation, what have you. Check it out!-- <a href="http://indiemapper.com/projector.html" rel="nofollow">http://indiemapper.com/projector.html</a></p> <p>Oh, and I was one of the developers of this software. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-us-by-county-vector-friendly-maps#post-1073 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:27:05 +0000 martian 1073@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>The Pro version of UUorld (www.uuorld.com, $49) can convert most any shapefile to SVG. The standard download includes US Counties.</p> <p>Disclosure: I was one of the developers on this software. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-us-by-county-vector-friendly-maps#post-1072 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:42:19 +0000 nathany 1072@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>there's also this: <a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-us-by-county-vector-friendly-maps#post-1071 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:47:01 +0000 nathany 1071@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>from @<a href="http://twitter.com/SimonRegenbogen" rel="nofollow">SimonRegenbogen</a>: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Counties_with_names.svg" rel="nofollow">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Counties_with_names.svg</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/looking-for-us-by-county-vector-friendly-maps#post-1070 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:54:18 +0000 matthias 1070@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I'm a Silverlight/WPF developer who has recently gotten interested in visualization (I did a goofy little viz about the number of times the New York Times mentioned the 2008 presidential candidates during the two years preceding the election: <a href="http://www.designerwpf.com/2009/02/22/infoviz-project-for-tim-heuer-presidential-candidate-tracker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.designerwpf.com/2009/02/22/infoviz-project-for-tim-heuer-presidential-candidate-tracker/</a> )</p> <p>I've been looking for some way of mapping data by county, but I can't find any good free (or cheap) vector maps that split up the country by county. Vector maps are ideal for working in Silverlight because they can be easily converted to XAML Paths that can be modified and animated. </p> <p>Anyone have any suggestions?</p> <p>(By the way, if anyone is looking, there is a pretty decent SVG map of the US state by state that is free for use: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_US_Map.svg" rel="nofollow">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_US_Map.svg</a> ) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/help-with-animated-interactive-maps#post-804 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:27:20 +0000 ticien 804@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>You may find some cool stuff for interactive map with SVG at <a href="http://www.carto.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.carto.net/</a></p> <p>Etienne </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/help-with-animated-interactive-maps#post-773 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:56:35 +0000 Kim Rees 773@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi Caroline,</p> <p>I'm with Periscopic, an interactive firm with a strong focus on information visualization and user-centric design.</p> <p>We've also been featured on FlowingData as well as Infosthetics. We also received a Communication Arts award this year for one of our visualizations.</p> <p>You can see some of our mapping projects here:<br /> <a href="http://works.periscopic.com/iucn/" rel="nofollow">http://works.periscopic.com/iucn/</a><br /> <a href="http://stateofthesalmon.org/msc/" rel="nofollow">http://stateofthesalmon.org/msc/</a></p> <p>You can also see more about us on our website:<br /> <a href="http://periscopic.com" rel="nofollow">http://periscopic.com</a></p> <p>We would love the opportunity to speak with you further about your needs. Please feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:kim@periscopic.com" rel="nofollow">kim@periscopic.com</a>.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/help-with-animated-interactive-maps#post-772 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:39:26 +0000 davidheyman 772@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hey Caroline. I'm from Axis Maps (some of our stuff has been lucky enough to be featured here on FlowingData). I'd like to talk to you more about your project. Have a look at our site at <a href="http://www.axismaps.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.axismaps.com</a> and feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:dave@axismaps.com" rel="nofollow">dave@axismaps.com</a>. Thanks! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/help-with-animated-interactive-maps#post-771 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:40 +0000 caroline.alexander 771@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>We are looking to produce a series of interactive animated maps. Essentially we are mapping time series data for metro areas in the US, but we want the map to have interactive capabilities, too (active map tips and possibly zoom). We have ArcGIS, but are looking for something or someone to help us take our static maps to the next level. Any suggestions for software or people? </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/just-landed-travelers-on-twitter#post-691 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:53:28 +0000 nathany 691@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Pretty darn cool. The grabbed data from the Twitter Search API for tweets that included "just landed in..." and then took the previous location has the Twitter user's entered profile location. Mapped it out for animated travels. Simple idea. Interesting results.</p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/4587178?pg=embed&#38;sec=" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/4587178?pg=embed&#38;sec=</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/election-map-follow-up-from-axis-maps#post-196 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:01:50 +0000 zpousman 196@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Wow, these are quite nice. </p> <p>One thing that I immediately notice is the true "island of blue" nature of Atlanta, GA (a very liberal city in a very conservative state). It's there in each of the visualizations;(either by total population or population density. </p> <p>The use of transparency in non-geographic visualizations is also under-explored IMO. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/election-map-follow-up-from-axis-maps#post-188 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:31:52 +0000 nathany 188@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>In a follow up to <a href="http://flowingdata.com/2008/11/13/alternative-to-cartograms-using-transparency/" rel="nofollow">using transparency in maps</a>, Axis Maps experiments with different colors and ways to split the data to tell a more complete story:</p> <p><a href="http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2008/12/election-map-follow-up/" rel="nofollow">http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2008/12/election-map-follow-up/</a> </p>