I've been loving big plasma screens showing stuff since they installed them at the Tesco I used to work at.. OK they displayed POS ( But it opened my eyes to real world data visualization ).

And nothing connects data with people better than some kind of visual stimuli.. so here's my random collection ( I plan to add to this list ) of cool visual interfaces /displays - they have to be on big shinny screens for all to see, pref hanging from up high.. sigh... ) in no particulate order.

Real Time Data visualization

Last FM

What they say...(Adrian Woodhead)

The setup shown above is great for being able to look up and get a quick feel for the current state of our systems. Blinking red and graphs with huge spikes are rarely a good thing. In addition to these displays we also have a number of alerts (e-mail, sms, irccat) that get triggered if things go wrong while we are away from the screens (yes, it does happen). There is nothing quite like the joy of being woken up in the early hours of the morning with a barrage of text messages containing the details of each and every machine that has unexpectedly crashed.

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Virgin Radio (Soon to re branded) -Visual Display of Quant Information

What they say...(John Martin)

For about 2 years we geeks in Digital Media have had a big LCD television mounted on the wall showing statistics about the website. Whenever a client or colleague wandered down to the Digital Media end of the 1st floor they would be transfixed by the live river of items that would flow onto the screen. It’s something that if you weren’t careful you could loose hours of your life just staring gormlessly as our VIPs replied to blogs, shouted at each other, became friends, and so on.

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TFL

Automated Underground - status information screens

Image: Robert Brook

I couldn't find much information about these which surprised me seeing as they are installed at pretty much every TFL station in greater London. The content is fed from the TFL status servers and update pretty regally, you can grab the data yourself if you know how.

Here's some widgets that do the same thing

I'm looking to expand this list so if anyone knows of any other cool visualization screens in their or other offices add a comment or email me.

And I will add it too the list.

img (hompath.net)

Article : www.psychologytoday.com

Want to understand the creative personality.. then the above article on psychology today is interesting... in short.. here is a cut down version, thanks to Paul Bradshawfor pointing to this great article.

1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they're also often quiet and at rest. They work long hours, with great concentration...

2.. Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time.

3. Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility... "Despite the carefree air that many creative people affect, most of them work late"

4. Creative people alternate between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present...

5. Creative people trend to be both extroverted and introverted.

6. Creative people are humble and proud at the same time.

7. Creative people, to an extent, escape rigid gender role stereotyping.... "creative boys are more sensitive and less aggressive than their male peers"

8.Creative people are both rebellious and conservative. It is impossible to be creative without having first internalized an area of culture...

9.Most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well.

10.Creative people's openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment.

I prob agree with 75% of that... what do you think?

Musing Done

Sounds about right..

Classic..