Google地图上的导弹！？
Google地图真是个厉害角色，我们曾经在上面发现过“毛主席万万岁”的标语，而下图中的这个物体，怎么看怎么像一枚飞行中的导弹。
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Google地图真是个厉害角色，我们曾经在上面发现过“毛主席万万岁”的标语，而下图中的这个物体，怎么看怎么像一枚飞行中的导弹。
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关于twitter的小工具有很多，我们介绍过一些，比如tweetstats，一个twitter数据统计工具。今天我们再来介绍一些，有的实用，有的就当它是水果糖吧。
1. twitter browser。输入你的twitter用户名，你的朋友们就会在你周围环绕，点击你的朋友，他（她）的朋友又会自动在他（她）身边围绕，还带着最新的tweet。
2. tweetvolume。嗯，有点用，可以比较一下哪些词在twitter中比较热，比如几款浏览器。
3. twittermeter。又一个比较工具，有一周内每天的详细数字，但是数据旧了点。Obama在twitter上的人气就是高。
4. twittervision。每当有人在twitter上发声的时候，我们就能在地球上看到他（她）。有3D和平面地图两种观看方式。
5. twitterposter。大家挤在一张海报里好热闹啊。当鼠标滑过，你会看到他（她）的地点，朋友的人数，和最近说了点什么。
6. twitter blocks。边缘橘红色的是twitter时间链上的人们说的话，然后顺着这一条，就是这个说话的人和他的朋友们的街区。
想看更多的水果糖，到这儿。
17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
(via FlowingData) I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I’ve seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I’d seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. Read more.
看到We Feel Fine的时候，就像昨天看到Muxicall，我被迷住并且投入，尽管我还不知道她是谁。
这就是we feel fine的小小一角。一个同样生活在这个星球上的人写道，Ta觉得Ta不像Ta爱Ta那样爱Ta。Ta现在觉得小小的悲伤。这段话下面时聚时散的颜色，像飘在夜空中的颜色，每一颗都代表着一个人的心情，在这个世界的某个角落。
这就是we feel fine，一个记录人们心情的艺术品。从2005年8月开始，WFF开始从博客当中收集心情。每隔几分钟，这个系统就会搜寻那些以“I feel”/“I’m feeling”开头的博客文章，并把它们收藏起来，分析这是一种什么样的感情，在哪一天，在哪个地方，藏在一个男人还是女人的心里，Ta是大人还是孩子，这一天是阴翳还是晴朗。
WFF的数据库里已经储存了几百万人的各样心情，每天这些心情以15000——20000的速度增长。我们可以搜索这些心情，甚至可以了解，在某一天，是欧洲人更快乐一点，还是亚洲人更快乐一点，是男人更快乐一点，还是女人更快乐一点。
这就是we feel fine，一件由好多好多人共同创造的艺术品。我们在长大，她也在长大，一起看美丽和悲伤，潮起潮落。
We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine’s Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles’ properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.
At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
- Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar
May 2006
我在这个新的博客里采用了google分析服务，这个服务提供了很多有价值的关于这个博客的数据，但是在访问者——地图覆盖图这个分析项目中，google犯了一个大错误。
如上图所示（点击看大图），地图中以颜色来区分访问者所来自的不同国家，同一个国家使用同一种颜色，颜色的深浅代表访问者人数的多少。但是那个叫做台湾的岛屿却没有像中国其他地方一样使用深绿色。希望google能够迅速的改正这个错误。
多说一句，这篇文章昨天晚上我已经写过一次，但是1小时候，这篇文章消失了，我今天不愿再看到这样的结果。
Google’s big mistake
Google analytics has many cool features including showing where your readers come from.Different color represents different country,the same country is covered by the same color.But that island called taiwan isn’t covered by the deep green like the other area of China.Hope google correct the mistake soon.
ps:The same post was written last night,but it vanished an hour later,why?Hope it not come again.
update:Google昨晚已经对地图做了改正/Google changed it last night:)
无暇出游？没钱度假？过过眼瘾也好啊。我找到了一个非常酷的网站，这里充满了世界各地美景的图画。先看一张秀图吧，点击看大图。
这样看也许并不稀奇，而这个网站的独特之处就在于，景色是全视角的，也就是说你可以看到四周，看到大地和蓝天，而你需要做的，只不过是用鼠标轻轻拖动。
这里还提供了另一种类似Flickr map的服务，就是在地图上标出这些全景照片拍摄的地点，想看哪里的风景，就点击地图上的图标就可以了。
摊开地图，看看美景在哪里，然后慢慢欣赏。
这里就是ViewAt。
ViewAt:Panoramic photos open on a world map
When you access Viewat.org, a googlemap comes to your eyes full of small icons. Each icon is a panoramic photo where it was taken. These panoramic photos are so amazing!
Want to know more about the technology powered viewat, please click here.
