Data Art

Tonight on Jeopardy, the first day of the IBM Watson challenge, Ken Jennings…

Jer Thorp, who has a knack for creating stuff that’s both useful and…

Fact is not always clear cut. Sometimes fact is driven by opinion. People…

eCLOUD, conceived by Aaron Koblin, Nik Hafermaas, and Dan Goods, displays weather data…

Antrepo wonders what it might be like if the labels on consumer products…

William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…

Fabian Gonzalez goes minimalistic on superheroes. I like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.…

Gareth Holt designed several charts and graphs for Rank: picturing the social order…

Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…

Through high school and sometimes beyond we’re taught history as absolute fact. It’s…

Auger Loizeau, in collaboration with Reyer Zwiggelaar and Bashar Al-Rjoub, describe their smart-home…

35mm, a short film by Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, and Pascal…

It’s no secret. The US military gets a lot of funding for manpower,…

Sure, why not, let’s make it a hairy Friday. From Tor Weeks: a…

Augmented reality, a computer trick to place the virtual within the real world,…

Field Design takes a look at a day in London:
LDN24 is a…

Anyone can listen to music, but how can you see it? The Music…

Ben Millen diagrams the reach of the iPhone in our everyday lives:
These…