Just a reminder that everything is over on Google+.

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... time to start keeping an eye on the annual hummingbird migration.  This entry was originally posted at http://15-the-circle.dreamwidth.org/331302.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

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The sunrise colours are so lavish this time of year.

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This image was yesterday morning's consolation prize. 
Shorter days and longer nights this time of year mean that one has to leave the Grove before there's light, and return to it in darkness ( Read more... )

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This was not the alien robot invasion. 
But before complacency sets in, consider this: there was a thermonuclear reaction a mere eight light minutes behind these brooding shapes.

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Highly effective visualization compresses high volume data - in this case, 55 years worth of Fortune 500 company stats.

Source: Fathom Information Design via Visual News
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"We don't allow faster than light particles in here" said the bartender.  A neutrino walks into a bar.

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This fascinating link comes from my favourite postgrad student.  Culturnomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behaviour using global news media tone in time and space. 
"News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across ( Read more... )

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An interesting side effect of network visualization tools is the resulting incidental imagery.  I found this one particularly engaging.

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Quick (fire)house call on the way in this morning in response to a call for assistance over the radio.  On the way out observed to the engine officer that one thing we share is the use of shiny bright red city-owned vehicles. 
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