Google Earth reveals North Korean secrets

Started by Curtis Melvin – a PhD student at George Mason University – the “North Korea Uncovered” project set out to reveal North Korea’s secrets. While it started in April 4 2007, he has already amassed a wealth of information by leveraging a community of amateur spies. While risky, it turned out to be very [...]

Wolfram Alpha: A computational knowledge engine

Wolfram, the potential game changing computational knowledge engine, (not a search engine) recently went live.  Why isn’t Wolfram a search engine? Well that’s because it takes your query and creates content from it, by outputting graphs, maps, tables, and information that you may not have directly requested.  Wolfram relies on knowledge from official sources to do this.
To [...]

The NFL Draft and the Fan War Rooms

UPDATE: Now featured on cnet.com!  Read the article >
As part of this year’s NFL on-line Draft experience, we wanted to elevate the voice and passion of the fan. By mimicking the concept of the team’s Draft war rooms, we setup a community for the fans to talk about their teams’ draft needs and ultimately how [...]

Pastiche: Keyword-Based Virtual Tourism

When most of us think of virtual tourism, we envision a Google Earth-esque satellite overview of a city; Pastiche heads in the other direction entirely with its text-based interface.Rather than navigating the foreign territory of a map, Pastiche allows you to explore the neighborhoods of New York City through tags and [...]

The Credit Crisis Visualized

The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. By Jonathan Jarvis.  Watch Part 2 of the video here >
The above video is a great example of using visualization to explain an incredibly complex and intimidating theme. While on the topic of the credit crisis, below are some additional examples of [...]

Britain from above: BBC’s Narrative Visualization

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.
As more and more data [...]