If you’re a sucker for post-rock like I am, you probably don’t have the problem that your favourite song is just too short. For everyone else (and anyone interested in the magic of technology), there’s «The Infinite Jukebox». This MIT project analyses songs for recurring patterns and turns them into infinite loops. You can pick songs from a list or upload your own. Bonus: very nice visualisations of song patterns.
From Weekly Filet #92, in November 2012.
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A new report by computation engine Wolfram Alpha offers fascinating insights to the data stored in your Facebook profile.
From Weekly Filet #83, in August 2012.
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A classic, rediscovered. A collection of words that have been coupled by the infamous «X is the new Y» formula. Key learning: In the Long Run, Everything is the New Black.
From Weekly Filet #79, in August 2012.
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A fascinating illustration of prime numbers.
From Weekly Filet #78, in July 2012.
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In people’s Wikipedia profiles, you’ll often read that they influenced someone or were influenced by someone. Take that data, graph it and you’ll get a fascinating visualisation.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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Five intriguing experiments of how the internet transcends places. My favourites: the Sketchbots and the Data Tracer.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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Today, Facebook is hitting the stock market. The NY Times has an interactive graphic that compares its IPO to those of all other tech companies since 1980. The big story unfolds when you move vom step 1 to step 2.
From Weekly Filet #68, in May 2012.
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The pulse of the city of Geneva, visualised with 2 million phonecalls made each day.
From Weekly Filet #62, in March 2012.
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The brain behind Wolfram Alpha has evaluated and visualised heaps of data about himself he had collected over the past ten years. Make no mistake, this man has a very high “On-Phone-Probability”.
From Weekly Filet #59, in March 2012.
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He is one of the fathers of Facebook’s new timeline design and the godfather of self-tracking. Nicholas Felton’s seventh report is, like all before, fascinating to look at and read.
From Weekly Filet #58, in March 2012.
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