I will attend the O’Reilly Emerging Technology and Graphing Social Patterns conferences in San Diego, CA next week. I’m packing equipment for photo and video installments. Stay tuned for updates!

(See also: Etech 2008)
(See also: GPS 2008)

The article outlines:

1. Mindmaps
   
2. Displaying News
   
3. Displaying Data
   
4. Displaying Connections
   
5. Displaying Web-sites
   
6. Articles and Resources
   
7. Tools and Services
   

(See also: Smashing Magazine)

A layoff or the loss of a ship at sea can cause a business to loose critical information and expertise. This 1st century B.C. device should not exist. This mechanism, this clock, is misplaced in time. Nothing as complex would be created for the next thousand years.

(See also: The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project)
(See also: The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project: background)
(See also: The Guardian: Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved)
(See also: CT image of the mechanism (JPG))
(See also: New Yorker: Fragmentary knowledge)

A talented hand, an eye for design, and an in depth knowledge of the architecture of Rome combine to produce this exercise in perspective.

(See also: TED)
(See also: TED: David Macaulay)
(See also: Houghton Mifflin: David Macaulay)

Radical might be hyperbole, but this is certainly an interesting collection of images generated from data. In this case centering around agriculture.

The caption for the image at the right states:

AGRICULTURE
Bill Rankin, 2005

Where does our food come from? (And where should we expect to find the “meat lobby”?) But notice the marked discontinuity in soybean production between the Dakotas and Minnesota or Iowa — different reporting methodology, or subsidies? And why is chicken production so clustered? Questions too sophisticated to be answered by these simple maps, alas.

Data source: Agricultural Census of the US.

(See also: Radical Cartography)

(See also: AGRICULTURE)