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Trends –July’09

Pavel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:00:52 +0000

Selection from recent client presentation. Remarkable design trends and non-standard cases in digital and integrated advertisement during past several years, approaches that will become more common.

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Week of flights

Pavel — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:31:21 +0000

Week of flights

Visualized air traffic to|from Russian airports

(05.10.2009 — 11.10.2009)

Having my hands on real-time official flight authority data for flights in Russian air space I couldn’t resist to make few simple visualizations. They show a week of domestic and international flights in Oct’09, unfortunately without GPS navigation tracks data (which is unavailable in Russian datasets at all), but with actual departure and arrival times to track delays. So in addition color of the flight patterns shows each flight’s delay levels.

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Some interesting data profiles that bring some light on underlying dataset as well as Russian air traffic zeitgeist: Delayed flights, all flights operated by “Aeroflot”, flights operated by old aircrafts (An-24).

As could be easily observed traffic is heavily radial, tending to operate all regional flights funnily enough mainly through Moscow hub.

Second visualization depict overall flight patterns (10275 total weekly flights, 230 concurrent) and main national hubs in unusual way — airport’s longitudes are mapped to the circle in non-linear manner and hubs are ranked by their cumulative air traffic expressed by distance from the circle center.

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Nooblast

Pavel — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:18:29 +0000

Nooblast

Project inspired by the old days Noösphere concept.

Visualization picks the real-time data from public APIs and calculates overall strength of signal (recent network buzz) for two given keywords. Some picked events have geolocation information, so they mapped on the globe in the exact points.

The overall strength visualized around the globe as “noo”-cloud, the size of which reflects event streams and shaped by geotagged data, building light abstract visual structures-snapshots in space for each term.

It explores abstract visual component of generated crowd sourced info streams as the visual connection attaching you to the pulse of planet.

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NYTimes+Flickr

Pavel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:19 +0000

NYTimes + Flickr

Current news illustrated

Mashup visualization fetches last New York Times online news through it’s new Newswire API and illustrates them with currently trending and relevant crowd-sourced Flickr photos in real-time.

Thus visualization fetches and compares both edited and community produced media content for latest events/news. Flickr part is more meditative than real-time of course. And, yes, sometimes it’s quite a badass photo editor.

Before going real-time visualization plays time-lapse of previous headlines. It’s possible to track news for a topic you’re interested in or just track current news in real-time. Infographics represents which topics were covered in given time frame and the timeline of their appearance.

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