PLOT uses raw data as the basis for unique jewelery.

By processing the “Mo Money Mo Problems” music video, Nick Hardeman has generated a series of images which display the color and action of the video in a highly abstract form.

Attempting to escape chain restaurants and big box stores in the US can seem like an impossible task. On a recent road trip, artist Stephen Von Worley noticed that they were popping up everywhere, even in the middle of formerly barren landscapes.

Jer Thorp of the blprnt blog has created a simple but compelling data visualization of Twitter posts across the planet which say “good morning” in some way.

Earlier this year, we wrote about the creation of Data.gov- a site that allows access to a large amount of US government data. DataMasher is a tool that takes these vast quantities of information and allows you to whittle it down into simpler terms- offering an easy way to get hard data on certain topics without any intrusive media spin.

Late last year we wrote about the launch of i/denti/tee, a customizable T-shirt line that features lyrics from people’s favorite songs. The company has recently launched an interesting lyrics visualizer that cross references songs and displays what they have in common word-wise. Plans for the future include visualizations that will track genre and artist by geography, and locations of popular lyrics based on user votes. i/denti/tee has also recently won the ‘Pay It Fashion Forward’ Award from Fashion Delivers, the ‘charity of choice for the fashion industry’. 
i/denti/tee lyrics visualizer

On Monday, 13th of July, some landmarks of the city of São Paulo were decorated with giant letters that spelled words such as “Descanse” (Rest), “Relaxe” (Relax) and “Calma” (Slow Down). The purpose of this artistic intervention, created by the Coletivo BijaRi, was to encourage some reflection in the midst of the urban chaos that is São Paulo and offer a feeling of peace and tranquility to the population. But on the very next day, the Mayor of the city had the words removed alleging it was not an artistic intervention, but subliminal advertisement and therefore against the law. The [...]

Mapumental is a web service (currently in private beta) that helps London commuters take some of the guess-work out of deciding where to live, based on how long of a commute they’d like to deal with. Combining data from the UK’s various public transportation services, Mapumental can highlight the boundaries of potential towns you may want to live in based on the exact amount of time you want to spend traveling to work everyday: 30 minutes, 1 hour and so on.
Other details can be brought into the mix as well. The program also can take into account how much you [...]

Visitors to Lufthansa’s Brand Academy in Frankfurt will be treated to an almost overwhelming visual experience, as they observe and interact with 16,000 daily Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights across the world, in real time, via a projection 180° display. The exhibit, created by interactive design firm WHITEvoid, will let visitors use a physical interface panel to zoom anywhere between the global and local level, filtering flight data as desired, and listening in on in-flight radio chatter presented in six-channel, three-dimensional sound. Flight data is almost inordinately complex and difficult to take in, and at the very least WHITEvoid will [...]

Similar to the In-Formed project we wrote about recently, Form Follows Data is a project by Tel Aviv based lohi design that uses custom-made physical objects to represent usage and behavior patterns associated with them.
lohanna, the projects creator explains:
“Form Follows Data is a project based on the formal language of statistic data, which we are exposed to everyday. The sources of the data are my body, my habits and my environment. Then, a dish set that brings to mind a cake graph is the visualization of a blood test and a glasses set shaped as a column graph represent the [...]

Rob Matthews has created a hefty physical version of Wikipedia’s featured articles. The 2,559 digital articles have been transformed into a massive, 5,000 page hardbound book that looks to be around 2 feet tall. Though thoroughly impractical, the project beautifully illustrates the usefulness of digital information.
[via Spreading Jam]

Apple is showing off the staggering multitude of applications available for the iPhone at this week’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference with a gorgeous data visualization, presenting an array of thousands of app icons, sorted into a color gradient, across a gigantic LCD matrix. Each icon pulsates when it is purchased online, making the entire wall bounce and swim with constant activity—bringing to life Apple’s claims regarding the platform’s massive popularity among both developers and consumers. Click through below for a video of the app wall in action.
[via Gizmodo]

Webdesigner Depot has compiled an exhaustive list of 50 different data visualization examples from around the web. All bases are covered here, from social media ecosystem mapping to music visualization. There are hours of really interesting stuff to wade through.
Seen above: The Hierarchical Structure of the Internet and Arc

Designer Nadeem Haidary is creating fascinating physical objects that are modified to visualize statistics related to the activities that they’re involved in. This revealing of relevant but often unknown information is designed to help change wasteful behaviors. Each prong on the fork seen above represents a different countries caloric intake per capita, mimicking the discrepancies of food consumption around the globe.
He explains the project, called In-Formed:
Much of the knowledge and statistics in the world exists in places like books, newspapers and web sites. You read things like “In Britain, 20 million tons of food is thrown out each year.” Statistics [...]

Digital visualizer Aaron Koblin started his lecture at the 2009 OFFF in Lisbon with a quote from Bruce Schneier of the BBC:
Data is the pollution of the information age.
While it was a theme that seemed to be running through the OFF conference this wasn’t what he was going to talk about. He said while it’s important to be aware of the extreme abundance of data it’s ironic that his job is to use it. With the vast volume of data he argued that we can make insights that we never could have seen before. He said:
“Data tells stories about our [...]