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Musicovery

October 21, 2009 by Scott Mitchell

Musicovery is a plug-in for iTunes that displays information about songs according to Musicovery’s mood/dance matrix. Songs from your music library are played directly by roll-over on the matrix, a click generates a playlist which is played straight.

Equally interesting (to me) is the visualization of songs and how they are connected (see image).

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Strange Maps

October 21, 2009 by Scott Mitchell

This infinitely cool site collects not only pictures but researched descriptions of interesting cartography and cartographic art. I just wish that I could find who is behind this project. Very, very cool.

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The Fair Use Project

May 1, 2009 by Kiki

The Fair Use Project
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s “Fair Use Project” (“the FUP”) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of “fair use” in order to enhance creative freedom.
Litigation
The FUP represents filmmakers, musicians, artists, writers, scholars and other content creators [...]

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This site provide a number of very interesting photographs of natural atmospheric phenomena including the “shadow opposition effect” and “fogbows” and “ice halos”.

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This project aims to provide clarity around the issue of obesity in the UK. This system diagram shows how social psychology, individual psychology, individual activity, activity environment, food consumption, food production and physiology interact in positive and negative ways — creating positive and negative feedback loops.

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This project from Italy uses a variety of visualization methods inspired by cartography. The project says that it’s aim “is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography.” Quite a mouthful … but a very interesting project.

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Many Eyes

April 23, 2009 by Scott Mitchell

This project out of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab (VCL) allows anyone to upload a dataset and use several powerful tools to visualize the data. What is interesting is that the datasets become (optionally) shared so that other community participants can create new visualizations of the same dataset.

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