Cyborgs, Migration Infovis, Face Tracking: Friday Links & Roundup

22.Aug.14
by Emily Twaddell

For your Friday surfing pleasure:

 

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It’s a short leap from the Quantified Self to the cyborg life—Dirk Knemeyer is featured on Boston Business Journal’s Tech Flash

 

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Designer/Engineer Ben Salinas shared some clever birthplace-data vis—This is a pretty neat look at migrations between states in the US since 1900. The technique does a really nice job telling a high-level story of the data. I wish there was a smaller version of each of these so I could look at all 50 states at the same time to identify trends. They also put together this visualization, which tells me a little bit less of the story but is interesting nonetheless.

 

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Designer Sein WooI smell coolness! Real time face tracking and projection mapping...amazing!

 

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Along with the hits, there is the occasional missWireless security video camera with a battery that lasts a year. Seems really great until you realize that their definition of standard usage is about 6 hours of recording during that year.

And don’t miss this week’s highlights:

Episode 65 of The Digital Life, Data Crunching the World Cup launches a new weekly format, with founder Dirk Knemeyers return to the co-host chair. Get the back story behind the data rich information visualization and Dirks long form feature article, “The 10 Best Nations in World Cup History: 77 Teams Over 84 Years.” 

In A Whole Lot of Pork, Dirk Knemeyer calls out some problems with CNNs data visualization and provides a detailed set of improvements.

Get a quick look at how Involution team members are guiding our interns in Monday’s Around the Studio: Mentoring.

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Topics: design innovation, data visualization, Blog, company culture