You will also select a theme to be explored visually, which represents an awareness of dynamic media content and considers

data visualization. Contemporary social issues often involve many facts, events, opinions and locations with potentially large data sets being tracked dynamically. How will you visualize a complex issue and facilitate an ease of navigation for the (target) audience to engage with your chosen topic? There are numerous approaches to explore the relationship between selected dynamic data and its visual representation, linear or nonlinear, first person/ autobiographical form, documentary, abstracted or historical formats. http://www.coolinfographics.com/ I really like the combination of the Venn diagram in the center and the mind map nodes that extend outward. The sizes of the circles doesnt have any meaning, just sized to fit the text. This is a really good way for Habitat for Humanity to tell their story with a visual explanation. A cool infographic is one that not only forces you to stop and stare at it with awe, but also and above all one that gives you insights that you would not get otherwise. Cool infographics reveal patterns and trends that lie buried below mountains of data and facts. They make complexity clear without compromising its integrity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/gallery/2012/sep/27/information-beautiful-awards

The first image above is has a strong message, it keeps the stats intertwined with the fact these stats are about people. The above right image is a beautiful display of data I don't know that I could read it super easily but could find general trends etc easily.

(Below) Data Visualisation, Lunar Calandar, Dimitre Lima The name of the month is in the outside circle and the number of what day of the month it is makes the circular band. It looks beautiful

This (below) is awesome! Web of Science, Olivier Beauchesne build an intricate map of scientific collaborations between cities all over the world, between 2005 and 2009. The brightness of the lines is a function of the logarithm of the number of collaborations betweena pair of cities and the logarithm of the distance between those same two cities .
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=747&index=747&domain= OR http://collabo.olihb.com/

see next page too

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=759&index=759&domain= and https://dhs.stanford.edu/spatial-humanities/visualizing-databases/

(below)These just caught my eye, very organic, pretty..and .. bird like. "Top Contributors to the Catalogue of Life and their associated species, references and databases" is what this visualisation means, I have no idea what that means, and couldn't gain any further insight from the text that accompanied it so will leave it as a beautiful network come graph. Other than - he uses gephi.org "Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs." AND THAT APPARENTLY YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE?!!? "Gephi is a tool for people that have to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop but for data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden properties. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis, intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing. "

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=663&index=663&domain= AND http://tinyurl.com/55tlpz (imgs below)

!! I WANT TO DO THIS !! LOL. well i guess i could do it in a mall?? maybe?? .. or public rest room, see how long people spend looking at them selves in the mirror compared to in the toilet cubical or washing their hands. Project Description: This is a simple, curious and imaginative experiment. On Christmas 2006, bumblebee (flickr name) decided to build a visual summary of his son, daughter and cat's movements in their living room over a period of an hour. To have an accurate understanding of their paths in space he used a marked-out equallyspaced grid in masking tape and then filmed the protagonists moving across the grid for one hour. He then reviewed the video and plotted their movements on each minute of the video's timecode onto a 'room map' with corresponsing grid. "Thanks for the comments :) The cat's story is one of moving from heat source to heat source and then food. It starts at the heat source -radiator- behind the armchair and then moves over (right) towards the french window where the sun's shining through. It then moves off towards it's food outside of the room - for the diagram's sake this shows it lingering by the door (contrary to the way it looks I didn't lock them in) :-) I liked the little underlying micro narratives that you could take from the map - much like Denis Wood's 'Pumpkin Map'. As for the movements - candy/cake-fuelled/TV-addled kids and sitting still (for any length of time) don't really fit comfortably in the same sentence ;-) Add in the cat who's two big wants are heat and food and you can see how even only an hour generates much movement in this context." "Cool, yr living room seems very active. There's no sense of when someone's at rest or when they're wandering though. Maybe the size of the dot could indicate amt of time spent in that location?" -This is fantastic - I tried doing something at uni to plot different activities (like making a cup of tea) on a long exposure by getting someone to carry lights around. Only one of the photos came out well - I wish i'd seen this though! -Some new movement maps coming online soon. First one looks at the activity over 10 minutes of a busy lunchtime food counter.

I like the colour palette below..

Strong imagery, Information is Beautiful awards: Cost of War

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=732&index=732&domain= or http://weeplaces.com/foursquare/

Weeplace maps an individual's shared locations on Foursquare. Blue circles depict popular places, which grow depending on the number of visits, while yellow lines connect current and previous locations with the goal of charting one's movement. A timeline on the bottom also provides additional information on the volume of check-ins over time. Anyone with a Foursquare account can simply login to Weeplaces and start mapping their trails.

I quite like the paper 3D feel of the below info graphic. I like how the below looks so delicate and in motion from a distance, not so much up close. But the colour coding really gives user an easy and quick understanding of patterns etc
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