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Yvan Rodic Webpage of Cities & Photos 

Widely considered one of the most influential movers and shakers in fashion, his original blog and more recent Visual Diary receive approximately 1 million hits per month. Over this short period, Yvan has been at the vanguard of one of the decade’s most remarkable trends. When he began in 2006, street style blogging was still in its infancy: in part it is thanks to his work that it has subsequently become a phenomenon.

Tile Mill // Website by The 88 // Google Maps 

Map of Messages for Japan 

Following the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in 2011 Google set up this page to send support to Japan. 

"Since the crisis, people around the world have sent countless messages of hope and support to the people of Japan. Some of them showed sympathy for the victims. Others encouraged us to look forward. Reading these messages—many of them in English—you can’t help but feel the support coming from around the world. But we wished more people in Japan could hear from these supporters and feel that same sense of hope—even if the senders spoke another language."

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/12/upshot/where-men-arent-working-map.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1#/11/40.71/-74

UNI JCC2263

Using GIS to Make Philly a More Playable City

BY ALEXIS STEPHENS | NEXT CITY 

Infographic: Who Wins The Nobel Prize?

“MILANESE DESIGN STUDIO ACCURAT DESIGNED A DENSELY LAYERED VISUALIZATION THAT MEASURES AGE, EDUCATION, AND BIRTH CITY AMONGST NOBEL HONOREES.”

  This visualization from Giorgia Lupi and her design studio, Accurat, examines the 555 Nobel Prizes and 893 Nobel Laureates created since the awards began, in 1901. The visualization is part of an ongoing series for La Lettura, the cultural supplement of Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera. Lupi and her partners have created 11 visual stories for the paper so far, on topics ranging from J.K Rowling’s career to the collapse of the 21 biggest empires in history.

It’s a dense graphic—but she’s done a lovely job making it legible, if you take the time to read the key. There’s plenty to be gleaned from the visuals, but a few major points of interest: Every category is top-heavy with master’s and Ph.D. degrees except literature, where the inverse is true (most of the winners have no degrees). Starting in the 1960s, people born in New York have had the prize on lock, winning far more often than any other city in the world. For Paris, it’s been the opposite—a steady downward trend.

  Creator: Giorgia Lupi and Accurat studio 

Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671359/infographic-who-wins-the-nobel-prize#1

CHICAGO BOUNDARIES

  “Any city-dweller knows that most neighborhoods don't have stark boundaries. Yet on maps, neighborhoods are almost always drawn as perfectly bounded areas, miniature territorial states of ethnicity or class. This is especially true for Chicago, where the delimitation of Chicago's official “community areas” in the 1920s was one of the hallmarks of the famous Chicago School of urban sociology. And maps showing perfectly homogeneous neighborhoods are still published today, in both popular and academic contexts alike.

My alternative is to use dot mapping to show three kinds of urban transitions. First, there are indeed areas where changes take place at very precise boundaries — such as between Lawndale and the Little Village, or Austin and Oak Park — and Chicago has more of these stark borders than most cities in the world. But transitions also take place through gradients and gaps as well, especially in the northwest and southeast. Using graphic conventions which allow these other possibilities to appear takes much more data, and requires more nuance in the way we talk about urban geography, but a cartography without boundaries can also make simplistic policy or urban design more difficult — in a good way.”

  Creator:  Radical Cartography

Source: http://www.radicalcartography.net/

THE CLOSEST PIZZA CHAIN TO ANY POINT IN AMERICA

  “Sometimes, you just want it to get to you fast. That’s where “Pizza Place Geography” comes in. This colorful map—brought to you byFlowingData.com— shows the closest pizza chain location (within a 10 mile radius) to anywhere in the US, in the form of clean colorful markings.

Pizza Hut dominates the list as one would expect; although, Domino’s is not far behind. Dark horse Chuck E. Cheese is very present on the East Coast, and Papa Murphy’s dominated the Pacific Northwest.”

  Creator:  FlowingData.com

Source: http://firstwefeast.com/eat/this-pizza-map-shows-the-closest-pizza-chain-to-any-point-in-america/

Infographic on LGBTQ Rights & Laws By State Simultaneously Fascinating and Horrifying

  “I stumbled upon this intriguing infographic on Sociological Images originating at The Guardian. It details LGBTQ rights in the U.S. by region and state. If you visit The Guardian (and you definitely should), the graphic is interactive, allowing you to hover over each state for more stats and info.

I’m delighted that more and more states are legalizing marriage equality (go fuck yourself, North Carolina). And it’s fantastic President Obama finally supports gay marriage. Although I wish it had happened years ago. But it horrifies and terrifies me that in this day and age, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and couples still don’t have equal rights and face massive oppression and discrimination across the majority of the country.”

  Creator:  THE OPINIONESS OF THE WORLD

Source: http://opinionessoftheworld.com/2012/05/10/infographic-on-lgbtq-laws-by-state-simultaneously-fascinating-and-horrifying/

Slave-labour origins of common consumer products

  Statistics from a U.S. government study are helping trace common consumer products back to slave-labour origins. Findings released in the 2011 report from the U.S. Department of Labour outline 71 countries involved in exploitative labour practices, spanning 130 product types. The National Post graphics department takes a look at this data and charts out what it means.

Creator: Jonathon Rivait

Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/08/graphic-tracing-common-consumer-products-back-to-slave-labour-origins/

Title: A Multitouch Visualization Exploring the Conversations of the World

Source:  periscopic.com

Author: The Real Perioscopic

Introduction: This program is a multitouch data visualization of the conversations happening throughout the world as seen through 6 media sources: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, forums, and news sites. The final installation of the piece is approximately 6ft tall and 14ft wide.

Nike Grid Runner Maps

San Francisco Bike Share Activity

by Juan Francisco Saldarriaga  :)

This visualization analyzes the 20 most popular stations in San Francisco in four different areas, and in doing so, it creates a more detailed, nuanced and complex image of the Bay Area Bike Share system. The diagrams are based on the traditional pie chart, but they vary and evolve to better represent each station’s attributes. Two systems of information interact here in order to outline each station’s unique profile and deliver insights: one station popularity network and one based on usage frequency and customer type.

Woody Vasulka + Brian O’Reilly

1957, Migration study of Asby, Sweden, by Torsten Hägerstrand.

The distance from the centre shrinks proportionally to the logarithm of the real distance.

This is a visualization of US expansion in North America from 1700 to 1900, seen through changes in the spatial distribution of post offices. Data from the USPS…

a film by Hélène Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois. All rights reserved. More info, more options, including a Stereo3D…