Tag Archives: visualisation

Red Hat’s open source map

By Julie Starr | Published: May 4, 2009
Red Hat has created a map illustrating open source activity around the world. Countries are ranked on a scale of 1 (high) to 75 (low) for its open source credentials. New Zealand comes in at 21 overall. Link comes via Flowing Data.
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My favourite new site is: flowingdata.com

By Julie Starr | Published: January 24, 2009
I love good data visualisations and look forward to seeing them used more often on news sites. I was delighted to come across www.flowingdata.com the other day via a Twitter link to this visualisation of people tweeting about President Obama's inauguration (links to flowingdata.com)
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BBC’s Air Traffic over Britain

By Julie Starr | Published: January 24, 2009
From the BBC.
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News in colour

By Julie Starr | Published: January 2, 2009
If lists of headlines don't work for you, this colour grid of news might do the trick. It tracks Google News and you can filter for a particular region. Alternatively, you could try this news map from vocalnation.net.
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The evolution of newspaper websites

By Julie Starr | Published: October 6, 2008
A slide showing the evolution of news websites - from not seeing the web as important through to packing sites out with multimedia and RSS feeds.
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