Viva la Revolución (Industrial !)

Hans Rosling (aka the “Mick Jagger” of TED) in another great presentation. It's worth 9 minutes of your life.

Science of Cities and the 15 percent rule

A new blog on the Science of Cities written by Professor Michael Batty.

If you are into this, you should listen to Geoffrey West at TED. (via Urbanophile)

Many Eyes - How the same data set can tell different stories

Lately a lot of websites have been talking about a Brazilian researcher called Fernanda B. Viegas (nyt, cnn); She’s a young specialist in Visual Communication and together with Martin Wattenberg she created the site ManyEyes where people can share data bases and try a variety of forms to visualize data.

You can see a little demonstration of the site in a special Brazilian TED Talk

or a more complete one in a seminar at Stanford University (download).

Some interesting things available at the site:

• Word Tree for Text Analyses (10^th minute at TED video)
• Social networks visualizations
• A lot of databases
• All kinds of different ways to visualize data and check how others visualize them

As free samples:
US Population Projections by Age 2010-2050

Surnames Scatterplot in the US 2000
*obs. Try to find typical Brazilian surnames

The best stats you've ever seen

A great "talk" of Hans Rosling showing powerful visualization.


Thanks Mark D. Hayward for the tip.

And here you can explore his dataset, or google's dataset here.