Great graphic from Dustin … How Frequent is Your Birthday?:
Very nice heat chart. I wonder what would happen if you filtered by geography? An awful lot of people I knew in northern NY were born 9 months after the cold dark winter.
More colorful Tableau version:
Great visualization shared by Nathan Yau … History of Earth in 24-hour clock. Amazing how small our (humans) time on the Earth is.
I'm not sure where this is originally from, but I found it on an intro to geology course page.
Great way to teach a film class! From Nathan Yau … Meryl Streep scatterplot:
Vulture plotted Meryl Streep's character faces on a cold-warm, frivolous-serious scatterplot. Sure, why not.
ZKO Rollercoaster // GREAT EMOTIONS from virtual republic on Vimeo.
Classical music visualized as a roller coaster ride:
This great short film by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra illustrates the intensity behind a lot of classical pieces by turning the first violin part on the fourth movement of Ferdinand Ries’ second symphony into a looping, whirling roller coaster ride.
Even though the “content limit” is only 140 characters, each tweet actually contains a crazy amount of meta-data. (related Economist article; via The Big Picture)
Any medical transcriptionist will tell you that the worst part of the job is all the paperwork. It’s so taxing not just because there’s a lot of it, but because a majority of it is completely pointless. Indeed, the vast inefficiencies in the US’s health care system are universally regarded as a complete waste of time and money. And even with President Obama’s healthcare reform in full swing, much work remains to be done. Check out this infographic on how all these ridiculous costs break down – and the next time you’re getting behind on transcription because of paperwork, just remember that every health care professional is right there with you. And remind your boss to switch to digital record keeping, already.
When science fiction writers first started imagining the robots of the future in the early 20th century, one of their prerequisite features was always that they’d be able to understand human speech. One hundred years later, though robotic butlers are still a ways off, scientists have indeed developed sophisticated automatic speech recognition software (ASR) that allows us to communicate with our computers in a new and exciting way. Some of ASR’s applications, while not involving robots, have revolutionized entire industries. The field of medical transcription, for example, which was once entirely manual, has become streamlined and modernized in a way that no one could have anticipated. This infographic breaks down exactly how ASR works, how it has helped our world, and what it has in store for us in the future.
This graphic from Reuters shows how many lawsuits are flying back and forth. The key for Google is not Google itself, but rather all the hardware makers that build smartphones and tablets that run Android, Google's mobile operating system. Those companies are the ones with green dots next to their names.
So guys here is an infographic by me on How Google+ varies from Facebook in each field such as Privacy, Chat service, friends management etc. You can have a look at this. I hope you will share this with your friends
Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch Our latest data project was to analyze how self-described Mac and PC people are different. The infographic below, designed by the talented folks at Column Five Media, breaks it down. Keep reading after the Infographic for more background and analysis, including some comparisons to findings from 18 months ago when we first looked at this issue.
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Amazing to watch this attack accelerate!
Visualizing a Security Attack on a VOIP Honeypot Server:
The movie shown below shows a real cyber attack on a honeypot VOIP server extension. Now, it is one thing is to look at some amazing meaningful moving imagery, it is another is to fully comprehend it. So here we go... The imagery shown is based on real data from a real attack. The 'balls' on the right represent some hacker attempting to crack a VOIP server. The balls on the left represent the server's response to the attack. The balls crash into each other and fight it out in the middle of the battlefield. The good balls do better, in this case. Although the attack is relentless and fast-paced, the volume of data from this one attack on a single IP/port (here UDP 5060 for SIP sessions) is really a drop in the ocean in terms of the wider internet. The visualization is created via a Ruby-based tool called "gltail", which is specifically designed to visualize Apache web server logs in real-time. With highly automated and blindingly fast scripting tools, crooks scan the internet looking for these VOIP servers. When found, the tool cracks the passwords on the extensions. Calls can then be made using these passwords. Victims only notice something is wrong when the next phone bill arrives, so there is a 1-2 month window in which the cracked address can be sold and used for illegitimate international calls.
Visualizing a cyber attack on a VOIP server from Ben Reardon, Dataviz Australia on Vimeo.
http://dataviz.com.au/blog/Visualizing_VOIP_attacks.html
Through our support of the Honeynet Project, we recently attempted a new approach to visualizing attacks on their VOIP honeypots.
With the increase in popularity of VOIP telephony, attacks are becoming more prevalent. The compromise of a VOIP system can cost the victim over $100,000 in real cash. For example, an Australian based company suffered $120,000 in toll fraud as a result of a VOIP compromise - read the full story here.
The video is intended to be a high level (if not stylized) visualization of the early stages of a cyber criminal compromising a VOIP system.
Credit to gltail, a ruby based tool which we fed heavily hacked/modified logfiles. Also Johann Pachelbel for his beautiful Canon as I was so tired of hearing electronic dance music mixed to hacking videos.
While l see us constantly adding storage for our online backup service, it was one of those moments that made me think, “Wow, that’s a lot of storage.” Ten petabytes is roughly double the entire archive of the Internet.
We tried to visualize what 10 petabytes of storage looks like. Here are three takes on it:
#1: 10 Petabytes in Backblaze Storage Pods
#2: 10 Petabytes in Pixels by Drive Size Used#3: 10 Petabytes of Drives Stacked Vertically (my favorite)
