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Tag: visualization
European Bodies
EFTA, schengen, EU, EZ visualized in a venn diagram.
Birth of a word
a great example what our imminent mylifebits future enables.
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90K hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
Byzantium
Istanbul as it never was: If all the palaces had been properly maintained instead of the sorry village the turks conquered in 1453.
French illustrator Antoine Helbert is a great fan of the architecture of Byzantium and has created more than 24 intricate drawings of buildings and monuments in the capitol city of Constantinople spanning a period of almost 1000 years from the 4th century to the 13th century.
Universe Scale
absolutely mindblowing. i learned that there are stars the size of most of our solar system.
Online communities map
and this older version from 2007:
20 LY Starmap
as planets are discovered in our neighborhood left and right, time to learn about these guys.
Popular passwords
How big really?
Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
a simple idea, beautifully executed: the moon is about as big as australia.
Population by Lat/Lon
very neat. not unexpected, but still very cool.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
