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Le 8 déc. 2009 à 11:22, Christopher Watson <[email protected] om> a écrit : > his 10th item, buy one of these: > > http://visualisationmagazine.com/ > > estore for it directly here: > > https://www.createspace.com/3391204 > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Christophe Tricot > <[email protected] > > wrote: > > > Sent to you by Christophe Tricot via Google Reader: > > > 10 Gifts For Data Lovers > via Datavisualization.ch by Benjamin Wiederkehr on 12/7/09 > > > > Did you stumble upon this website because of the browser history of > your roommate or did you follow one of the many links your > girlfriends constantly send over Twitter? Consider yourself happy > then because: I’ve got some of the best christmas gifts for before m > entioned person. (Also, if you want to tell your friends about some > gifts you, as a desperate infographic or data art fiend, would reall > y appreciate) > > 1. Conference Tickets > > Conferences are a fantastic way to get inspired, learn about > different approaches and see cutting-edge technology. Also it’s alwa > ys a ton of fun to meet mentors, see old friends and connecting to n > ew people. Not to mention the good coffee in the morning and booze a > t the afterparty. Some great suggestions are: > > TED > POP! > VisWeek > 2. Books > > There is plethora of great books out there. Some are deeply > inspirational and other highly informative, but worth a closer look > are most of them. Now all that a happy designer needs in addition is > a rainy / snowy weekend without deadlines the next monday (Feel the > irony?). > > There are a lot of books on my wishlist on Amazon > 3. Posters > > Is there a better way to decaorate the walls of your office, studio > or kitchen with a beautifully crafted Infographic? No? I think so > too! Here are some good sources for Infographic posters. > > Flowing Prints > Infojocks > WebTrendMap > Visual Aid > RoadTrip > 4. Portraits > > If an infographic is a bit too unpersonal, i got something that’s a > personal as it gets: DNA Portraits are visualizations of your very o > wn DNA signature printed on high-quality canvas. You collect the dat > a (your DNA in this case), send in the sample, they extract the info > rmation needed for the visualization and 3 weeks later you have your > picture in your hands. Creepy maybe, but unique for sure. > > DNA Posters > 5. Family Tree > > My Tree And Me provides beautifully illustrated custom family trees. > Delivered as high-quality prints ready for your wall. Once the > family tree form is filled out, a visualization method is chosen and > a color scheme is defined the picture is ready for creation. Three > weeks later it already might hang on your wall. > > My Tree and Me > 6. Getting physical > > Once in a while playing with digital representations isn’t enough fo > r the kid in us. If the receiver likes to get his hands dirty with s > ome serious sothering and loves to play with receptors, motors and s > ensors the Arduino Starter Kit might be the perfect gift. Arduino le > ts you program sensors in a Processing-like environment to draw visu > alization with real-life data or create analog representations of di > gital data. Possibilities are endless! > > Arduino > Arduino Starter Kit > 7. Furniture > > Fluid-Forms.com lets you create your very own “timezone”. The > face of the Street Clock is a section of OpenStreetMap data that you > can choose freely. Just select a city or country and then zoom and > pan the map to your liking. Thec lock is cut out of wood or acrylic > glass. > > Street Clock > 8. Jewelery > > Data scientists may not be easily excited by jewelery but these > pieces are on of a kind. With their “Gestalt” based on actual > data they tell an interesting story AND look pretty. > > Weather Bracelet > Plot > 9. Clothes > > Newsknitter is project that produces sweater based on 24 hours of > new feed from the Internet. Good looking, warming and surely a topic > the wearer has to explain more than once. > > Newsknitter > 10. Help me out! > > Right, these are just 9 of the promised 10 gifts. Would you mind > helping me out finding the 10th gift? Just add any suggestions in > the comments. Thanks for your contributions! > > Nathan has compiled another datageek wishlist on flowingdata.com > > > > > > Things you can do from here: > Subscribe to Datavisualization.ch using Google Reader > Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your > favorite sites > > > http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/ > > Word as Image | exploring the creative use of words and their forms > as image > > http://wordasimage.ning.com > > Chris Watson Design homepage | Purchase selected pieces here: > > http://chriswatsondesign.viviti.com/ | > http://www.clockworkgallery.co.uk/?p=1&a=CW > > --------------- > > Visualisation Magazine | collates some of the most creative and > innovative visualisation of information that try to simplify the > complex > > http://visualisationmagazine.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Vous avez reçu ce message, car vous êtes abonné au groupe Groupe "Cartographie d'informations" de Google Groupes. 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