Tagged: friday video

Ring of Fire – Animated Map of World Earthquakes (Jan 1 – Mar 12, 2011 GMT) - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Mar 13, 2011 •

• Animation,
• Christchurch,
• Data,
• earthquakes,
• friday video,
• Japan,
• python,
• visualisation,
• world

This video was made very quickly and could use some work. I post it here in case you find it interesting. I suggest you watch it full-screen, in high definition with scaling off. [vimeo width=”680″ height=”383″]http://vimeo.com/20966740[/vimeo] The animation depicts two and half months of 2011 USGS earthquake data. Blue circles represent deep seismic activity recordings (>= 40km deep). Read More

Friday morning video — Watching Packets Fly - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Nov 12, 2010 •

• Data,
• friday video,
• internet

This video by Carlos Bueno below depicts in slow-motion what happens when one computer requests an image from another computer over the Internet. I think it’s really neat. Imagine that the big grey circle on the left is your computer and the circle on the right is some website that you visited. Each flying circle represents a unit of … Read More

Friday morning video – Powers of Ten - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Oct 29, 2010 •

• Animation,
• friday video,
• scale,
• universe

This classic short documentary from 1977 helps viewers conceptualise the relative sizes of things in the Universe. Powers of Ten begins with a one meter wide scene viewed from a distance of one meter. Every ten seconds the camera zooms in or out by a factor of ten. It seamlessly transitions from galactic vistas to scenes rendered at sub-atomic … Read More

Friday morning video — Touchable Holograms - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Oct 08, 2010 •

• friday video,
• holodeck,
• hologram,
• sound,
• visualisation

My jaw dropped when I saw this video of researchers at Tokyo University creating holographic images that “feel” like physical objects. The technology uses ultrasonic waves to create a sensation of pressure on the hands of people interacting with the hologram. When inaudible sound waves emitted by a set of ultrasonic transducers interfere, they can create a focal point … Read More

Friday morning video – Journalism In The Age of Data - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Oct 01, 2010 •

• Data,
• friday video,
• journalism,
• visualisation

If you are at all interested in data visualisation, please find 50 minutes to watch this excellent feature by Geoff McGhee. Journalism in the Age of Data explores how programmers, designers and journalists are creating visualisations to understand datasets, tell stories and encourage curiosity. There are great interviews and intriguing examples throughout. Highly recommended. [vimeo width=”651″ height=”366″]http://vimeo.com/14777910[/vimeo] … Read More

Friday morning video — Rain tables and gumboots - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Sep 17, 2010 •

• friday video,
• rain

A major storm is coming. At the moment the Manawatu is sunny and eerily calm. Soon the rain will be here. Then the rivers will start to rise and the fields near work will disappear under water. The prospect of the storm makes me wish for two things. The first is that I could play with/hack the cool “rain table” … Read More

Friday morning video – Asteroid Discovery From 1980 – 2010 - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Sep 10, 2010 •

• Animation,
• asteroids,
• astronomy,
• friday video,
• solar system

An incredible video created by Scott Manley shows the locations of known asteroids starting in 1980. As asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones. Armagh Observatory host a current map of the solar system where you can see a two dimensional projection of known near-Earth objects. Read More