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Category Archives: Information visualization
The demographics of online dating, games that respond to your emotions and more
Recent articles for Forbes Who uses online dating services? The answer may surprise you – it turns out everyone does. Many online dating services advertise that they will find the perfect companion for you. What if they’re right about that? Find … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Gaming, Information visualization, Music, Social media
Tagged emotion sensing, hip-hop, online dating, taxes
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Baseball: Engaging the audience – Part 1
An earlier Info Monkey article suggested that the audience for e-sports is just the audience MLB (and every other major sport) wants to attract. It also argued that tinkering with tiny adjustments to speed up the game isn’t likely to … Continue reading
Moore’s Law and the Technologies of Daily Life
One small step. One giant leap. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. It was awesome. It still is. The picture above shows part of the instrument panel of the Apollo lunar command module. The person in the picture … Continue reading
Posted in Information visualization, Technology
Tagged Apollo 11, information visualization, Moore's Law, technology
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Streaming, Music and Money: Musicians Who Signed with a Record Label
The first article in this series made use of an outstanding infographic from Information is Beautiful titled “Selling Out” to illustrate how little money independent musicians make from streaming their music. The situation is even worse for musicians who signed with a record label. … Continue reading
Posted in Information visualization, Music
Tagged artist royalties, copyright, Deezer, Google Play, information visualization, mechanical royalties, music, music copyright, music industry, music royalties, music streaming, performance rights copyright, performance royalties, sound recording copyright, Spotify, YouTube
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Streaming, Music and Money: Independent Creators
Who makes money from streaming music and how much money are they making? Two things should be kept in mind when you think about trying to answer these questions. First, the money flow in the music industry in general and … Continue reading
Posted in Information visualization, Music
Tagged Deezer, Google Play, information visualization, iTunes, music, music industry, music streaming, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube
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Brilliant Data Visualization Tool for Cities in the UK
Duncan Smith, a researcher with an interest in urban geography, has created a “mapping platform designed to explore the performance and dynamics of cities in Great Britain.” It’s called Luminocity-3D and it’s awesome. Luminocity is presented as a set of maps that … Continue reading
Broadway the Digital Way
Sometimes amazing things happen when you give people tools and let them loose. On Broadway, “a visually rich image-centric interface” is a good example. What’s a visually rich image-centric interface? It could be a lot of things. In this case it’s … Continue reading
Population Movement Within the United States
About a month ago The Info Monkey took a look at the sources of population growth in the United States in 2012 with the aid of an interactive map developed by the US Census Bureau. Recently the New York Times took … Continue reading
A Bike Share Map
Originally posted on Tuned In To Cycling:
Over 700 cities around the world have implemented bike sharing systems that allow people to make use of public bikes for short trips within the city. The motivation is to reduce air pollution, noise…
Sources of Population Growth in the United States
In recent years the population of the United States has increased by approximately 0.7% each year. Which areas of the United States experience this growth? Where does a local increase in population come from? Do the number of births outweigh the number of deaths? Do people move into the area? … Continue reading
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