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What Do People Do All Day?
Great bit of data visualization by the New York Times.
Original at http://www.nytimes.com//interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html?hp
2010 Trend Map
What am I up to? Today I’m doing a keynote on the future of work at a human resources national convention and then it’s back to work on some scenarios for the future of public libraries. In between I’m doing an update to my book, Future Files, and I’ve just started work on yet another map.
A few people have been asking how I do these maps so I thought I’d start to answer this question. The first stage is a brain dump. I write a list of every significant trend that I can think of. I then dump the trends into categories (lines) on a sheet of very large paper.
The image above is the result of this. The next stage is to look at this information for a month or two and work out what’s wrong with it. What have I missed? What shouldn’t be there? Most of all, how do these lines connect?
Extinction Timeline (2009 Update)
Coming soon…a 2009 update to my extinction timeline. It has been done using oil paints so we will have to wait until the paint is dry (about 10 days) before I can scan it. Why oil paints? Why not? There is no strategy behind this. It just is.
Great Brain Map
This is quite cool. A 3D map of the human brain. A genuine image of a brain has been mashed up with an elevation model to create contours and some map data from New Zealand has been added to create the offshore islands. Nice. Thanks to Phil btw who found this little gem. More of the same at http://infosthetics.com.
Brainmail Visualized
I’m supposed to be writing an updated version of my book, Future Files, but I got bored and dumped the best bits from the last fifty issues of brainmail into tag crowd. Not that interesting (so why blog it?).
Map of the Interior World
I’ve been on quite a few planes recently. For some unknown reason I thought it would be a good idea and try to paint something at 35,000 feet. People didn’t quite move seats to get away from me but it came close. No idea what
this is or what to do with it. Maybe it could be the basis of a 2010+ trend map?
2009 Trends Map
“What is the use of a book thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?” – Alice in Wonderland.
In the spirit of images and debate here’s the link for the 2009 Trend Blend.
http://nowandnext.com/PDF/trend_blend_2009_map.pdf
