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March 15, 2007

Queens street numbers, house numbers

Signs Indicate Queens, NY Street Numbers and House Numbers.

In order that a house number may be of greatest value in indicating
the location of its premises, the number is divided into two parts,
separated by a dash, in which the first part of the number is the
same as that of the nearest cross street or avenue, intersecting
the avenue or street to the west or north, and the second part of
the number represents the distance, as expressed in lot intervals,
between such corner and the house, a number being assigned
for each 20-foot space.

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February 06, 2007

Infosthetics

Infosthetics shows time trends.

January 24, 2007

Many Eyes interactive data visualization

Data visualization in web browser, with interaction.
New champion: IBM's Many Eyes.

Liked by JHeer and radar.oreilly.

January 05, 2007

Tag Cloud

tag cloud, an lternative to zoomclouds.

October 16, 2006

kizmeet, a slick 'missed connections'

kizmeet: example:

missed connections at NY Equinox Fitness.

October 06, 2006

Visualization and segmentation: Gelman's bag of tricks

Visualization and segmentation: Gelman's

Bag of tricks
for teaching statistics.

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See also Gelman's Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models.

October 05, 2006

Trulia, Truliablog

Trulia tracks real estate markets; updates in TruliaBlog.
Sample housing market search Great Neck NY, 3 bedroom, 2 bath.

An example of good URL engineering:
trulia.com/NY/Great_Neck/price_0-750000/baths_2-3/.


See also: Zillow.

July 14, 2006

Shakespeare @ google: soliloquy search

Comedy, tradedy, romance. The elegant design
of Shakespeare's life work.

Not yet: Browse by or search for work's name Hamlet, character
name Ophelia or search for content text nunnery.

July 08, 2006

ia flickr, ia discuss

Information architecture artifacts: ia flickr: ia discuss.

Bonus: Flickr's newr interface.

July 07, 2006

Sparklines time series

Show the time series with a sparkline.
Sparklines wiki.
Go mad with stock charts.

US Federal Budget deficit, 1983-2003.

June 20, 2006

GraphPaper / Christopher Fahey

Graph Paper / Christopher Fahey.
Beautiful design, and observations about information architecuture.

Example: full-focus states.

May 21, 2006

Snap job

Snap Job Search.
Best use of incremental search partitioning and refinement
of multi-faceted search and browsing.

Snap journal.

Battelle comments.

April 26, 2006

xplane Visual thinking

Visual thinking and marketing by Xplane.

Charmingly illustrated technology and business process graphics
remind me of Richard Scary's Busyown.

April 24, 2006

Subtraction

Subtraction by NYT designerism and ia by Khoi Vinh.

April 13, 2006

netvibes

Net Vibes aggregates information into a personal dashboard.

Like myway.com, or my.yahoo.com, but with perhaps less syndicated content.

April 04, 2006

Dashboard spy

Dashboard spy gallery of mangement dashboards and consoles full of KPI
(Key performance indicators).
Update 2006 Dec.: Moved to enterprise-dashboard.com.

Ed Tufte adds,

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March 10, 2006

Cloud tags by zoomclouds

Tag soup and del.icio.us tags, and now Zoom Clouds of tags.

February 05, 2006

boxes and arrows

boxesandarrows has been upgraded.
Looks good.

You can see where the conversations are happening and
who’s having them. Each page posts stats on conversations
and people, so you can quickly find the most interesting,
controversial or insightful moments on the site.

January 23, 2006

findory turns two

Chuck Norris doesn't go hunting (for that implies the possibility
of failure), he goes killing.

Likewise omor offers find rather than search. Why search when
you can find ? And the optimistically named Findory turns two,
as recalled by Greg Linden. As findable as those polar bear guys.

December 08, 2005

RSS finds new

Rely on RSS, not new tags to find new content: undeniably geeky.

December 06, 2005

Google maps mania

Google maps mania charts the
mash ups and applications.

December 01, 2005

log base 2

logbase2 is mostly biostatistics and visualization,
with a blast of r.

Bonus (detritus ?): And compliant lefty Canadian commentary.

October 27, 2005

Google News Report USA Score

Fetch headlines from Google News on a schedule, then rank
headlines by factors:

* appearance day and time,
* prominence on the google news page,
* number of appearances,
* others;

weighted to estimate referer traffic these links bring to their
source.

Listed are the top scoring stories in recent time periods, followed
by a ranking of sources. More detailed reports are linked-to at the
bottom of each table.

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October 16, 2005

Explain ia: An Exercise in Clarity

What exactly is an “Information Architect” or “Information Architecture” ?

Explain it in 10 words or less. And then, take all the words you
need to explain the difference between an information architect and
a designer (not an artist, but a designer).

-- 37signals

October 14, 2005

housing map 2

census track vs google map mash up.


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October 11, 2005

NYT headlines

NYT headline index RSS as it's posted.
Most e-mailed 24 hours | 7 days | 30 days
Most blogged 3 days | 7 days | 30 days
Most searched 24 hours | 7 days | 30 days

obIA: Good use of multiple entry points.

September 30, 2005

Housing Map

Housing Maps
the criagslist - googlemap mash up.

See also housing maps by census.

Live near the trees.

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September 05, 2005

Find Articles

findarticles is the poor man's Lexis/Nexis.
Can't find it there ? Try MozBot instead.

August 02, 2005

43folders

43folders for power users and alpha geeks.

Today's tactical equivalent to Seven habits of highly effective people.


July 11, 2005

GIS realtime: BusMonster Seattle

GIS realtime for commuting, BusMonster (motd) maps routes through Seattle.

With help by Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Program at UW.

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July 10, 2005

Mozbot, France's prettier Google

Search for stylized facts or for Coruscation at Mozbot, France's prettier Google.

June 24, 2005

Riander, reDUX

Riander, travails of a user experience and user-centred desisgn
consultant. Who better to run DUX, aka Design for User Experience ?

June 21, 2005

Tom Peters

The excellent Tom Peters offers pithy business advice for the post-modern
economy. Well organized site.

June 19, 2005

Google Scholar

Research citations


Google Scholar



Galegroups's review.

June 11, 2005

Tag Soup

Clay Shirky on tagsonomy: tags are cheap reader (not author/editor)
supplied metadata, having (at least) these characteristics:

1. It’s made by someone else
2. Its creation requires very few learned rules
3. It’s produced out of self-interest (Corrolary: it is guilt-free)
4. Its value grows with aggregation
5. It does not break when there is incomplete or degenerate data

And this is what’s special about tagging. Lots of people tag links on
del.icio.us.

June 06, 2005

Tagsonomy

Tagsonomy by del.icio.us offers well-categorized ontology of topic links.

April 10, 2005

Craig's List and Google Maps

Craig's List and Google Maps merge, and the result is good.

See for rent and for sale listings plotted on a map,
pins colourized to show availability of pictures,
drill down the matches to a feature set or price band.

March 10, 2005

Leaving Asilomar

Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture is now Information Architecture Institute.

January 17, 2005

Daou Report

Daou Report ia blog portal with refreshed ledes.
Mostly political; page layout shows left is left and right is right.

January 08, 2005

Clusty headlines

Clusty headlines are groupable into clusters
by reader-specified criterion.

Clusty shows Stylized Facts as in these clusters:

Market (30)
⇨Growth (17)
⇨Statistical, Empirical (10)
⇨Interest Rates (9)
⇨Bank, Research (7)
⇨Volatility, Modeling (7)
⇨Behavior, Generate (6)
⇨Generate The Stylized Facts (5)
⇨Economic Blog (3)

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November 20, 2004

scholar.google.com searches refereed publications

scholar.google.com searches refereed publications.
Sample search mortgage prepayment modlleing.

November 10, 2004

Jakob says usable Bush wins election

Jakob says usable Bush wins election [via Kos]

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