Giant Smiley Feel-o-Meter Reflects the Mood of the City

Fuehlometer (Feel-o-meter) by Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck, and Benjamin Maus is a light installation consisting of a giant smiley face that reflects the average mood of the people living in the city. An earlier version of this work originally used a more standard light screen installation instead of kinetically moving the different parts of the smiley face. The average emotional value is calculated through the computational analysis of the faces of people passing a camera located in a specific part of the city, Watch the movie below. See also Mood-Reading Billboard: Jell-O's 'Pudding Face' Ad In New York City.

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Mapping 10 Years of Road Casualties in the UK

This post was written by Gregor Aisch, a freelance information visualizer and part-time data journalist. He blogs at vis4.net and tweets under @drivenbydata. ito road casualties uk [itoworld.com] by itoworld, experts on complex transport data, is a map that reveals virtually every reported fatality and injury that occurred on the roads in Great Britain as a result of a collision involving a motor vehicle between 2000 and 2010. The icons provide additional information about each accident, such as whether the victim was killed, seriously injured or slightly injured and the mode of transport that was used, in addition to the person's age, gender and the year in which the crash took place. Itoworld recently announced that an US version of this road casualties map will be launched in the coming week. After reviewing the map through a color blindness filter, they even decided to change the colors to be more suitable for red/green color blind users. See also Animation of OpenStreetMap Edits in 2008.

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xkcd's Rendition of All the Money in the World

Money - A Chart of All of It, Where It Is and What It Can Do [xkcd.com] by Randall Munroe's webcomic xkcd is the epitome of all infographics: an immensely large chart, accompanied by some immensely small captions, that together compare the different amounts of money flowing in the world. From single dollar amounts to those huge trillion numbers that we now regularly hear about in the news, it's all included by representing the individual quantities by an accompanying number of small squares. How does 2008 global financial recession impact the US versus Europe? Where and what is the "1%"? What is the value of a solid gold toilet? How much money is spent during the elections, and on who? Or how much loose change fits in a one-gallon jug? Explore the chart to discover, and figure out the sources behind the hard numbers here. See also other data visualization by xkcd: - Nuclear Radiation - Movie Characters - IP Map of the Internet Made me think of The Billon Dollar-o-Gram.

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Dynamic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an Entire Year

History of the Sky aims to convey the rhythms of the weather, the lengthening and shortening of days, and other atmospheric events on an immediate level. By recording the sky above the Exploratorium, a museum located at the edge of San Francisco Bay, programmer slash artists Ken Murphy has captured the clouds, fog, wind, and rain to form a rich visual texture, as sunrises and sunsets cascade across the screen. The 6-minute movie is based on a huge collection of images, which were captured at a 10 seconds interval. The visualization consists of a grid of 360 (so almost 365) unique movies, each representing one day of the year, organized chronologically, and cycling in parallel through a single 24-hour period. Watch the movie below. Via @DataPointed.

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Dark Sky: Beautifully Animated Short-Term Weather Prediction

Jack Turner and Adam Grossman from jackadam have come up with an interesting idea: to create a smart phone app that can accurately predict the likelihood of rain within the next 30 minutes, in combination with a beautifully animated map of storm activity. Based on the map data gathered by 140 doppler radar stations throughout the United States, a smooth animation will be created that does not resemble the clunky, jerky and hard-to-follow succession of static radar images that we know today. In addition, this map will be overlayed with an interactive timeline that plots the historical and anticipated intensity of storm and precipitation around one's geographical location. As a result, one can explore many hours of smoothly animated storm maps, and should be able to predict the actual situation in a more intuitive way. The only problem? They still need about $10,000 within the next 14 days to make it really happen. Via @ilikedata.

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Comparing the Rankings of Top Executive MBA Programs

Bloomberg's Business Week has featured a small collection of interactive graphs to convey their biannual ranking of the best part-time and executive MBA programs worldwide. 4 separate at-a-glance exploration tools contrast all individual rankings against each other. For each type of program, there are 2 separate interactive graphics, one displaying the ranking results and the other displaying the results of a survey of the students based on 12 key questions. Accordingly, the rankings are presented as "The Complete Executive MBA Ranking" and "What Executive MBA Students Really Think" (part-time MBA programs are mentioned here: "Part-Time MBA Programs: Drilling Down" and "The Complete Part-Time MBA Ranking"). Users can hover the mouse over each of the graphs to contrast the rankings of individual schools by separate attributes. For instance, do high tuitions necessarily correspond to students becoming "high execs" (answer: no). Do small class sizes imply higher completion rates (answer: not necessarily) Thnkx David.

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