Category : user interface

The New York TImes has created a great infographic that looks at Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities. Who knew Mad Men was such a consistent demographic predictor.

Google has just rolled out a preview of Fast Flip, a new visual way to browse the news. Once you sign in with your Google login, you can flip between readable cached images of news articles without having to wait for them to load. The experience is close to flipping pages in a magazine and over time the site will learn the sites you like. The fast flipping between stories also plays well with iPhones. One significant aspect is the partnership with the three dozen or so news sites and blogs that are partners in the site– the publishers will get a share of the revenue from ads shown near their content. Maybe this is the Hulu for newspapers. Read more and see video of the product introduction.

Check how federal stimulus money is being spent in California in this great interactive map.

Hear those sirens the other night? Check out this new crime map of San Francisco to get comprehensive crime data visualizations of the city. Using geographical data from the OpenStreetMap project and the City of San Francisco’s newly-launched clearinghouse for city government dat, a DataSF, the map lets you browse crime by type, time and geography. Along with a 510-friendly map too, you should check out more great data visualization project from Stamen Design.

The New York Times has a nice interactive graphic that displays information from The American Time Use Survey which asks thousands of Americans to recall how they spent their time in 2008. Not surprisingly, the unemployed get an hour more of sleep each day than the employed and they spend a lot more time keeping the house tidy than people with jobs too. Read the full article.

There’s a great Immigration map in the New York Times today that shows how foreign-born groups settled across the U.S. during the past 120 years.

This is going to change the way we interact with machines from now on, proclaims NYU research scientist Jeff Han. He’s been working on a new touch-driven computer screen that does away with the mouse and keyboard and lets you control the screen by touching it at mulitple points. The only way to explain it is to see it. Or you can read more at Jeff Han’s site.