This is a brilliant information design project, and an astounding reminder of the scale of money we talk about in public finance.
>> Link: US debt problem visualized: Debt stacked in 100 dollar bills.
Visual Budget – an Interactive Guide to the Federal Budget
From Information Aesthetics:
Visual Budget is a cutting-edge data-visualization web site. It explains all the complicated ins and outs of the US Federal Budget using interactive charts and motion graphics. It is a tool that lets citizens like you and me understand this important issue, armed with the latest most comprehensive facts and figures. It brings a new breadth of knowledge to our political disc
>> Link: Visual Budget – an Interactive Guide to the Federal Budget by Higher Media — Kickstarter
What’s that you see from your airplane window?
Super cool technology that lets you know what you’re looking at from 30,000 feet:
The idea is that, if you’re online and in the air (and the Mondo Window guys have been blowing my mind with the technical, infrastructural and business models that allow this to happen), you can access the various APIs that track where all the planes are. And if you can do that, and you know what plane you’re on, Mondo Window can more or less know where your plane is. And if we know that, and we know more or less how high your plane is, then we know what you can see out the window on both sides of the plane. And then we can show you relevant Wikipedia and Flickr content.
With this kind of technology, what will the pilots use the intercom to tell us about? (“As you already know from your iPhone, that’s Tucson off the starbird window…”)
>> stamen design | Mondo Window: what you’re looking at out your airplane window
Visual Aid: Synonyms, homonyms, heretonyms, and more
Thanks, Wikipedia! This is really useful:
10 Sages Read the Future of Print
What becomes of the printed word? What’s the fate of companies that produce periodicals and books? Here’s what 10 media and tech luminaries think:
Four Ways of Looking at Twitter
Very cool stuff — experiments in data visualization as presented in the Harvard Business Review:
