Just reached 20000 scrobbled artists on Last.fm

Unfortunately there is no official Last.fm badge, reward or gamification “system” so I can only share a screenshot of my Last.fm counter.

(Source: http://www.last.fm/user/yiah)

World Population Densities 

(via World population densities mapped)

via Flowing Data

Developed and developing markets.

J N O M I C S

(Source: http://flowingdata.com/2011/09/16/world-population-densities-mapped/)

What is Visual.ly?

I don’t know nothing about them but the teaser is promising. Any invites anyone?

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Google’s ‘Think Quarterly’

Google’s new “Think Quarterly” book is absolutely genius. The first issue focuses on data. The design is smart, creative and extremely intriguing. Check it out!

Yes it is!

Music Mapping: From Drawn Maps to Interactive 3D environments.

Finding Music With Pictures: Using Visualization for Discovery
http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sxsw-music-viz-slideshare-110313155810-phpapp01&stripped_title=finding-music-with-pictures-using-visualization-for-discovery&userName=plamere

View more presentations from Paul Lamere.

 

With so much music available, finding new music that you like can be like finding a needle in a haystack. We need new tools to help us to explore the world of music, tools that can help us separate the wheat from the chaff. In this panel we will look at how visualizations can be used to help people explore the music space and discover new, interesting music that they will like. We will look at a wide range of visualizations, from hand drawn artist maps, to highly interactive, immersive 3D environments. We’ll explore a number of different visualization techniques including graphs, trees, maps, timelines and flow diagrams and we’ll examine different types of music data that can contribute to a visualization. Using numerous examples drawn from commercial and research systems we’ll show how visualizations are being used now to enhance music discovery and we’ll demonstrate some new visualization techniques coming out of the labs that we’ll find in tomorrow’s music discovery applications.

Hugh Garry from Storify’d

Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats. “Pretty neat, hu?”

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats. “Pretty neat, hu?”

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Journalism in the Age of Data

Really interesting documentary about the rise of data visualization. Click here to check it out.

via soupsoup:

(Source: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/)

The most playful girls are in the UK

According to surveys that have been performed in the US, UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium involving more than 10,000 respondents from national panels representative of the total online population of 10 years and older. 

For more info click on the image

Thx hiten

(Source: http://www.gamesindustry.com/about-newzoo/socialgaminggraphs2010)