Data Visualization, Infographic Design, Visual Thinking, Product Development and Marketing professional fascinated by good infographics. Always looking for better ways to get the point across.
This is a cool infographic timeline, showing the Darwinian Evolution of Microsoft Windows from version 1.0 in 1985 up through the current Windows 7 in 2009. Although it makes for a really tall infographic, I love seeing the visuals of the startup screens and the desktops.
Art is credited to Richard Cavolo, and the project is from TestKing.com (even though I can find no mention of it on their site). It was posted on BitsandPieces.us
Update on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 11:00AM by
Randy
I found the release post from the future on Testking.com. I say “from the future” because the post is dated October 10th, 2010.
Adobe has published posters like this one before for registered users of their different software packages. Now you can download the ActionScript 3.0 Diagram Viewer, a zoomable version using Adobe AIR. This can keep a stand-alone viewer on your desktop (or 2nd monitor) as a reference when you need it. For some developers, this may be easier than viewing the high-resolution JPG.
With the excellent feature from Zoomify, and the nicely laid out AS 3.0 posters, you are able to zoom and navigate through the entire Flash and Adobe® AIR™ ActionScript 3.0 API.
The Linux Kernel is one of the most complex open source projects. There are a lot of books, however it is still a difficult subject to comprehend. The Interactive map of Linux Kernel gives you a top-down view of the Kernel.
You can see most important layers, functionalities, modules, functions and calls. You can zoom in and drag around to see details. Each item on the map is a hypertext link to source code or documentation.
$2,869 was the average refund for early filers in 2009 based on this infographic from TurboTax. Designed by Column Five Media for Intuit.
Are you an early bird or a tax procrastinator? Did you know that people who file their income tax returns in February are among the most likely to get refunds – and larger ones at that? TurboTax reports that 82% of taxpayers who filed before the end of February last year got money back, and on average, the refund for early filers is typically larger: $2,869 compared to $2,753 for returns filed through April 15th last year.
Forty percent of all tax returns last year were filed before the end of February. That means 60% missed out on some of the benefits of filing early such as putting money in your pocket faster – making your refund work for you.
Although I’m not a fan of the overuse of pie charts, I think it works in this case. The infographic doesn’t have so many pie charts that it becomes confusing, so its very easy to wrap your head around who this typical TurboTax, early-filier consumer is.
Today, Tableau Software launched a data visualization package for websites called Tableau Public. This package is intended to be used be anyone with a website to embed visualizations on their own sites.
Tableau Software today launched a new product that brings public data to life on the web. Tableau Public, available for free, lets anyone who posts content to the web easily create interactive visualizations and publish them to blogs, web sites, Twitter feeds or anywhere online. Instead of viewing static charts or tables, Tableau Public lets people answer questions and share data interactively on the web.
The visual above was created using Tableau Public to demonstrate its capabilities, but you’ll notice that I’ve been able to embed it here on Cool Infographics as well. The visualizations created allow users to share, embed and link to your graphics from anywhere…making them social!
They’re also interactive and linked together. For example, click on the Bronx in the data above, and all of the visuals will highlight just data related to the Bronx. The map even adjusts to only focus on the Bronx.
About the NY City Graffiti visual:
Looking borough by precinct across The Big Apple, one can quickly see that there are some differences in how graffiti is handled. For instance, Staten Island has very little graffiti, but the graffiti they do have lingers without cleanup for almost twice the citywide average. On the other side of the spectrum, Manhattan has over 2000 incidents of graffiti, but it is cleaned up in less than 17 days on average.
Look for more features from Tableua Public here in the future as I experiement and play with it.
Thanks to Elissa at Tableau Software for the link and information!
EDIT: Here’s a news video as part of the announcement. Thanks Adriana!
I know, that's a mouthful of a title. MindMeister is an online, collaborative mind mapping tool that lets multiple users edit a common mind map. Essentially, its a visual wiki, that allows anyone to makes changes to the data, but you need to be logged in so that it can track who makes the changes.
Your voice can still be heard, a few of the software applications don't have any comments at all yet. They need people to help add information to the map.
New TED Talk video of Hans Rosling talking to the U.S. State Department, "Let my dataset change your mindset". Using the GapMinder software that was purchased by Google, Hans shows the third world isn't as far behind the U.S. as most people believe.
In contrast here's my version of the Mac OS X Snow Leopard upgrade chart. The comparison to the Mac was inevitable, and I couldn't find that anyone else had created this chart yet.
The $169 price for users that don't have Leopard also include iLife and iWork.
The chart above is NOT from Microsoft. Ed Bott, over at ZDNet, was able to quickly redesign the Windows 7 Upgrade Chart from Microsoft in about an hour. And Ed's a journalist.
The original chart (below) is unnecessarily complicated and hard to comprehend. I generally don't post about bad infographics, but in this case Ed was able to re-do Microsoft's chart into the improved, simpler version you see above.
Honestly, the upgrade process is still too complicated and Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. This deserves a new Mac vs. PC ad just by itself.
Check out the new version of The Conversation Prism 2.0 by JESS3 and Brian Solis and theconversationprism.com. Available as a poster for $20 US on thier website, and they also have some high-resolution versions available.
I love the design of this one. It's seems to be essentially a mind map, but much easier to read and understand.
This is an update to the original Conversation Prism that you can see here on Flickr.
Randy
