2008 Presidential Candidate Donations: McCain vs. Obama

So tomorrow is the big day, US election time. Where's your money? We all have our theories and all know who we'd like to win, but sadly, unless you're in the US there's nothing you can do about it. Pitch Interactive, haven't done a Fox and tried to sway voters one way or another, instead they've taken data about where the presidential donations came from and created some beautiful circular charts. In recent internet-days they've now gone one deeper, and split the Presidential Donations down into Job Titles of Donors. Make sure to click the images to get a super-sized zoomed in image.
Heavy.

NYTE - New York Talk Exchange

The New York Talk Exchange, is a visualisation of when the population of NY 'dial out' of the city and call the rest of the world. I like all 3 of the projects here but the third one, 'the world inside new york' contains the most information and shows data that I've not come across before, compared to the other 2. The world inside new york shows the diversity of each section's calling habits. Each square represents a 2 kilometre square block, within that block the different countries dialled are represented by colour coded percentage bars. I really like the shade of black used for the background colour along with the palette used for the map in the top left. I don't like the blurred gradient which points to the chosen square, although it is a good method of pointing to whichever square has been selected. Watch the video here, ogle at a high-res image here.

Bored? Feeling down? Considering growing a mustache? Have a secret giggle at this.

Interactive US Box Office Chart

This is beautiful.. check it here.

Yet more information graphics that fills my brain with the stuff it loves to see.. colour! I don't think this piece even needs explaining which proves how good it is at its job. I think what I like about it the most is the way there is no x-axis in the sense of a 'zero'. Instead the week's data is centrally aligned spilling out of the top and bottom on a week when the box office made its millions or contracting inwards when all that week's films were flops. Also check out the 1998 chart and let your eyes pop out at the Titanic facts.

Google Knows You

I found this on ffffound.

Will write something later when I'm home from work.

Synethesia

Brahms Capriccio, opus 76 no. 2 from musanim on Vimeo.

This is too nice not to post.. it's a visual representation of an audio track highlighting the fact that sometimes it is not just the eyes that see colour. Some people see colour when they hear music. This phenomenon, when a sense is stimulated another sense experiences a sensation, is called Synethesia.

I found this on EveryoneForever, part of the UniversalEverything site. Incidentally, UniversalEverything and Matt Pyke are pretty much my idols. 'One day Rodney, one day we'll be millionaires'.

112 Years Of Olympic Medals

So.. after recently viewing David Sparshoot's blog on the ycn, and at the same time receiving a stern word in the ear from my boy Patl I decided that it was quite simply time to pull my finger out and get the blog flowing.

The plan is simple.. one post per day, a snapshot of my daily brain workings and an insight into just what makes me tick. There will no doubt be links to my flickr, where I've decided to dump a load of images that I've come across on the net. The reasons for this are tarnished in misery, I emailed fffound begging to be added as a user and I've been shunned.

So here's the first post of many, a time-based chart of the number of olympic medals won by countries. Click here.