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Visualizing Technical Debt

Posted on May 12th by Shae Davidson.
Mark Hissink Muller's Complexity Map creates a tree map that helps Java and J2EE/JEE developers keep unintended complexity to a minimum--effectively monitoring what Ward Cunningham described as "technical debt."  The visualization allows ...
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Campaigning Word by Word

Posted on April 4th by Shae Davidson.
Two recent visualization projects posted on Many Eyes--an offshoot of IBM's Collaborative User Experience research group--use  frequency diagrams to examine the tone and emphasis of recent political speeches.  Presenting ...
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A Swarm of Words

Posted on March 31st by Shae Davidson.
Stanford University doctoral student Daniel Steinbock created TagCrowd to provide a simple, usercentric tool for examining word frequencies in websites or downloaded documents.   The application turns the information into text ...
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Celestial Economic Sphere

Posted on March 17th by Shae Davidson.
The Black Shoals Stock Planetarium uses real-time financial data to create an artificial skyscape. Stars represent listed companies, which flicker each time their stock is traded and move in the artificial universe ...
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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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Two Ways of Seeing Noise

Posted on February 13th by Shae Davidson.
Two sets of research and art projects catalog the effects of noise pollution in urban areas and public green spaces.  An ongoing program of the European Commission relies on extensive research and visual ...
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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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Chatter

Posted on January 21st by Shae Davidson.
Disembodied Voices traces the changing nature of personal and public space, exploring the ways in which the evolution of communications technology has expands the private sphere while eroding the public realm.  The ...
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Red Light, Green Light

Posted on December 12th by Shae Davidson.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, based Ambient Devices relies on a 900 MHz network to provide a constant stream of weather, sports, and financial information to its customers.  A product offered by the company uses ...
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remote graffiti

Posted on December 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
locamoda’s wiffiti screens are large public displays to which passersby can send messages via SMS. the screens are mounted in public places like cafes, restaurants, and increasingly workplaces. recently wiffiti screens ...
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second office

Posted on December 7th by Leonardo Bonanni.
josh lifton (of pushpin computing fame) presented his work on ‘dual reality‘(pdf) at the moda+tecnologia event. as part of his phd thesis he deployed activity sensors all around ...
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Architectural Parsing

Posted on December 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Cicero developed orations by assigning key themes and concepts to rooms in an imaginary villa, which he mentally navigated during recitations.  Centuries later, medieval scholars and university students expanded on the idea, and ...
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An Open Book

Posted on November 9th by Shae Davidson.
  An exhibition supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Project for the Arts in the 1990s used seminal titles in science writing as the inspiration for works that re-imagined the text, ...
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Designing Baseball

Posted on October 31st by Matthew Hockenberry.
One of our favorite designers is at it again. Lokesh Dhakar illustrates baseball pitches so that you can understand them. If you aren't familiar with Lokesh's name, you're probably familiar with ...
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rendering opinions

Posted on October 30th by Leonardo Bonanni.
america’s first project off the coast of cape cod is being fought over renderings. wind-industry-backed (with 61% resident support) cape wind produced a set of renderings of how the offshore wind ...