The Visible Body is a free virtual human anatomy website with detailed models of all human body systems. It requires an app to be installed to render the 3D views but it’s pretty awesome - this is a female skeleton showing urinary, respiratory and endocrine systems.
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This video’s been around for ages but it was always a favourite of mine, and though it’s a bit cheesey and out of date now (anyone for the Ping of Death?) it had a lasting impact on the way I understand the net - it’s still basically the way I visualise “packets” and “headers” :)
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When I first saw it I was still based at Lime Grove (it was released in 1999 to help up-skill telecomm engineers) and the idea of using a web-clip that was more than 70MB long in the classroom was ludicrous: how times have changed.
more info on the film - http://www.mundi.net/maps/maps_024/
A good example of how mixed technologies can pretty the place up a bit. It’s a macro display system that responds to mobile txt input with movement and sound.
In each installation, participants send their thoughts and questions via SMS and voicemail. The responses are then projected and added to a dynamic spatialized audio composition.
Great visual dictionary resource - type in a word and a network of connected terms kind of “bloop” out at you. Based on Princeton Universities WordNet project.
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Machinima done by a group of kids in Queens NYC.
Some quick run throughs on what you can do with Google maps, I hadn’t realised that you could embed youtube clips in the tags - cool.
Bubbl.us is a ludicrously easy to use brainstorming - diagramming tool. It doesn’t do 2-way arrows and you can’t embed stuff in the bubbles, but you can share authoring with people - embed, link, export and mail them - standard web2.0 yadada. Marvelous.
Produced by informationarchitects and based on the Tokyo tube map, (so if you’ve ever been to Tokyo you get an “added layer” of information and may understand why Microsoft have been moved to the Ikebukuru district - me, I haven’t a clue.) Shows the top 200 most successful websites, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.
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Many Eyes is a Visualisation tool by IBM - upload your data set - choose a visualisation type and away you go. I’ve embedded a Tag Cloud of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech because it was easy to do, but any dataset (crime statistics/GDP’s/financial indicators) you can knock into shape can be used and visualised as anything from a Pie Chart/Line Graph to a Matrix or Network Diagram. The results are hosted on-line, can be linked into a topic hub for discussion and easily embedded on a web page.
It’s pretty neat and illustrates the strange reach of Web2 - on the one hand you’ve got people doing entity relationship diagrams of their Facebook contacts and bubble charts of the favourite baby names in Holland and on the other, the OECD created over 100 visualisations, from CO2 emissions to oil prices, in support of its World Forum on Statistics in June. Heady stuff.
