BBC have plotted the road incidents resulting in death for the last ten years in the UK.
I’m sure I’ve come across this before, but it’s a good visualisation.
Simple, meaningful and accurate.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15975720.
This is what will hopefully be the first in many posts on a particular evolving interface – an interface that people use, offline or online. I’m not quite sure what I aim to be talking about, but they’ll basically be to express my thoughts and share my observations on what I think are interesting interfaces.
In Feburary I was asked to have a pop at visualising some spending data for some local UK councils. The data was in linked data format (RDF/Turtle) – so stored in a RDF store somewhere and had the Linked Data API layered on top (the Puelia implementation).
The brief was to build an open-source, interactive, cross-browser dashboard of widgets; that would allow the comparison of council’s spending data, say, per month.
After a little time spent researching, I came to the conclusion that RaphaelJS (an open-source JavaScript vector library) would fit the bill for this project nicely. The documentation wasn’t great (I’m used to that though as I’ve been using theJIT library for previous visualisation work), but understandable enough to pick some of the demos apart and get the hang of how things worked within a few days.
The great thing about RaphaelJS is that it’s simply a drawing library, so you can create a static SVG image of a banana or you can create a animated, multi-coloured, shape-shifting, real-time rotting banana, thanks to being able to manipulate and listen to events on the SVG DOM elements that form the vector image. Continue Reading →
In the last month I’ve noticed that when I switch to fullscreen during a YouTube video – it has to rebuffer the whole thing again.
Anyway, I’ve found some more options that can be tweaked – Go to YouTube.com > “username” > Account > Playback settings – then switch to “I have a slow connection”. You can manually switch to a high quality version of the video when watching it, but this option stops this from happening automatically.
YouTube settings
