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Futuristic TouchScreen Visualization
Glass manufacturer Corning has published the second YouTube video in its series “A Day Made of Glass”. It provides a glimpse into the future of ubiquitous touchscreen glass displays, from the car...
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Tube Maps
I just got back from a combined business and vacation trip around Easter to Germany and Austria. In Europe, public transportation is an important part of the infrastructure. Especially in the big...
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Graphic comparing highest mountains
In mountaineering, 8000m peaks are the ultimate test of high-altitude climbing. It so happens that there are 14 Eight-thousanders. In 1986 Reinhold Messner became the first person to have climbed all...
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Self-publishing to Apple bookstore
Over the last couple of weeks I finished writing the book about my adventure of a lifetime: Panamerican Peaks, cycling from Alaska to Patagonia and climbing the highest mountain of every country along...
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Interactive Tournament Map
I hadn’t followed the UEFA 2012 European football championship (called soccer in the US) and wanted to catch up on where things stand. Enter the interactive tournament map on the official UEFA website:...
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London Tube Map and Graph Visualizations
The previous post on Tube Maps has quickly risen in the view stats into the Top 3 posts. Perhaps it’s due to many people searching Google for images of the original London tube map in the context of...
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Olympic Medal Charts
The 2012 London Olympic Games ended this weekend with a colorful closing ceremony. Media coverage was unprecedented, with other forms of competition around who had the most social media presence or...
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Superstorm Sandy – Visualizing Hurricanes
Time-lapse animation of Sandy Oct-28 from geostationary orbit, 1 frame per minute, 11 hours of daylight. Although “only” a category 1 hurricane, this superstorm has enormous size. Tropical storm force...
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Personal Analytics with the Suunto Ambit
Half a year ago my wife bought me the Suunto Ambit multi-function sport watch and heart rate monitor. It is a fantastic device, with very precise GPS, lots of add-on functionality and an interesting...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 36,000 views in 2012....
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