Tag Archives: information

Southern Voices

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Strange week, a bit more relaxed than the previous. Readying up for my New York stay in June (later post on that). Finishing up my courses: I am putting together some stats because I want to see and show how … Continue reading →

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Hoosgot… the answer?

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Dave Sifry, blogger and photographer has a nifty new twitter/blog crawl mashup called Hoosgot (Who’s Got?). Simply place a request with Hoosgot (with the keyword… ‘hoosgot’ followed by the actual words) and use the power of what has been called … Continue reading →

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Wolfram Alpha’s humor

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Not only does Wolfram Alpha give us all the data one may expect (Life expectancy, number of car accidents, unemployment, etc.), but it also has the sense of humor to answer such tricky questions like: How many roads must a … Continue reading →

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The world of 100

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Thanks to Dolors Reig (El Caparazón) I discovered this: If the world were a village of 100 people… Beautiful information design from Toby Ng Design.

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Animated maps with data mined from the Web

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via Wikipedia I found a couple of fascinating examples of the use of data repositories over the Web. Both deal with Walmart’s spread all over he US, since its opening. The first example uses freebase as the data provider. … Continue reading →

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