via Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com.

Researchers at Cornell University have recently completed a huge study of 1.6 million news sites in which they tracked news stories in the three months leading up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election. They tracked stories on mainstream media sites as well as blogs, and saw some very interesting results. You can read about the [...]

Beautiful infographic from my colleagues at The New York Times. The aesthetics are lovely, the interfaces is clean and simple, and the visual metaphor really conveys a sense of people gathering in remembrance.
 

My del.icio.us tags, as visualized by Wordle. This comes out of IBM’s research lab, home of many great data viz projects, including ManyEyes.

I discovered some interesting data visualization projects today by exploring the links gathered by Max Kiesler at Design Label. Some highlights below:

For quite a while, I’ve been thinking about creating a tool that allows users to make and share multimedia, interactive timelines easily. Turns out, the folks at CircaVie (owned by AOL) have done exactly [...]