I made some visual updates to the View From Above. Florida twitter usage now looks like islands in the sea, which in terms of Twitter usage it very much is. I find it fascinating how the map made from tweets occasionally mirrors the landmass but very often it does not.

Take a look live.

New York city mapped using tweet locations. View it live at n96.org

I visualized some of the twitter data I collected just before the election, coloring mentions of Obama blue. I particularly enjoy the cities pulsing awake and asleep. But you should take a look yourself, try the HD version as it is much cleaner.

Here are some visualizations of Obama Twitter activity spreading across the country during and after the election. The visuals track mentions of him and can loosely be thought of as tracking “buzz”. Twitter background activity is gold and Obama is blue. Done with ruby-processing.

Lately I’ve been visualizing data from the Twitter public timeline using ruby-processing. Here are some maps of the twittersphere, each one is made from several thousand randomly sampled tweets from a particular day….I hope you find them both beautiful and enlightening.

I recommend going to Vimeo so you can watch these in HD and see more details.

These are two visualizations I did of a few days activity on Yahoo Live, Yahoo’s lifecasting/videochat service. On the first one the horizontal axis represents time, and the vertical axis is number of viewers. It is very information dense, so blow it up to full screen and watch a few times; you may see some interesting patterns. A shout out to Phil Pearson for his help with some of the finishing touches.

Visualization of Yahoo Live! (no. 1) from Nikhil B on Vimeo.

This one is a collage showing all the simultaneous channels at once. If you watch carefully you can notice that there are fewer broadcasts at night and more in the morning. You might also catch a glimpse of morning light and evening darkness.

Visualization of Yahoo Live! (no. 2) from Nikhil B on Vimeo

I needed some high resolution mouse cursors for a mockup I was doing, and was unable to find any stock/clipart on the web…so I made some and scaled them to a few sizes. Enjoy.

Mouse Pointers by Nikhil Bobb is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Forbes had an article on the true cost of nuclear power in the US. It turns out clean coal generated power is only slightly more expensive than regular coal. On the other hand Nuclear power is significantly more expensive and only makes economic sense because of subsidies.

I didn’t see a chart in the the article so I made one with their statistics. Enjoy.