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Text Mapping

Posted on February 29th by Shae Davidson.
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data.  The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between technology, data, ...
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Annoucement: GraphGear 1.2 Available

Posted on February 8th by Matthew Hockenberry.
How does the work move forward? Sometimes this is a strange question. Working on a lot of things, however, inevitably implies that some things get left behind in the wayside. Graph Gear ...
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Mapping Fatalities

Posted on September 7th by Shae Davidson.
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities plots the location and dates of coalition deaths from March 2003 through late winter 2007.  To plot the fatalities temporally as well as spatially, a Flash animation follows the ...
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Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.

Posted on August 19th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
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The State of the Union

Posted on August 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Political rhetoric and the ebb and flow of language itself are key concerns in democratic societies. The role of language as a social and political tool has intrigued everyone from ...
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Clusterball: A new view of Wikipedia

Posted on June 28th by Forrest Diamond.
Chris Harrison designed an illuminating visualization of three levels within Wikipedia and their interconnections. His design starts with one large circle, the center of which holds the parent topic. Secondary ...
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[graph-watch] All the President’s Graphs

Posted on June 13th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The Wall Street Journal has a nice graph selection taking a look at U.S. presidents' job-approval ratings. The site showcases the average approval ratings over time of modern presidencies from ...
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Chi Review: Qualities of Perceived Aesthetic in Data Visualization

Posted on May 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Great (and content packed) talk by Nick Cawthon, University of Sydney, Australia. Fair warning, Alt.Chi presentations aren't considered archival by the Chi community (although maybe they should be). Abstract:Through results gathered from a ...
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Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0

Posted on April 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As we wind down our beta period for Recycled Canvas we're in the process of preparing an internal report of some of the results. We're planning on getting the Recycled Canvas ...
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Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)

Posted on April 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...
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[graph-watch] Personal Pie

Posted on April 11th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Contrary to what that pretentious mac guy will tell you, you can in fact represent your life in pie charts. Craig Robinson does so quite effectively. Also: Kathy Sierra showcases the
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[mashups] Lots of coal, but the engine is full.

Posted on March 26th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Read/WriteWeb points out that mapping continues to be the dominate API used for mashups, and wonders if mashups have lost their luster: There are few surprises in this information. Google Maps is ...
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Mousetracking for fun (but not profit)

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Creative Synthesis is now set up for mousetracking. Here is some of the activity, you can see where people held the mouse longer (bigger, darker circles). If you want to see something like ...
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Coffee: Disrupting Social Order Since 1511

Posted on March 14th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Yesterday Calestous Juma spoke to the OLPC class about "social responses to radical technologies". He's a very interesting and engaging speaker who has been thinking a lot about the integration of radical ...
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Paradigm Synthesis

Posted on March 1st by Matthew Hockenberry.
This Map of Science (found via Information Aesthetics) suggests that ways of visualizing scientific thought and contribution can offer incredible insight into the state of the art. This insight can ...