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good PDF form of visualization samples

Wow. For emotional visualizations, this is one of the best efforts I’ve seen yet. For its category, that is outstanding visual language. (via Poetic Audio Display on Datavisualization.ch)

Creative Review - Maps for these territories. Ben Fry

interactive chart depicting the approval trends for all presidents since Truman (1945). Would have been nice to see reference to the major events that obviously affected their approval ratings. The comparison view is also quite nice.

Another multi-variate radial display. nice isolation options for countries and multiple tooltip display for congested data points.

Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning | Video on TED.com. Good summary on visual thinking techniques that compliment our physical brain make-up.

Ambient Orb.  Another informative device escaping flatland

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David Rose, excerpt.

We do this by choosing a mode of representation—whether it’s color, texture, a pattern, or something else—so you can get that information in a preattentive way. People experience ambient displays as calming, rather than as information overload.

Neighborhood based geographical groupings as opposed to zip-code or county. What if maps projected activity rather than simply geographical names? How many different kinds of regional activities would we find and would these groupings be more useful to our daily lives?