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Observations on film art : Watching you watch THERE WILL BE BLOOD
To help us test David’s hypotheses I am going to perform a little visualisation trick. Making sense of where people are looking by observing a swarm of gaze points can often be very tricky. To simplify things we can create a “peekthrough” heatmap. A virtual spotlight is cast around each gaze point. This spotlight casts a cold, blue light on the area around the gaze point. If the gazes of multiple viewers are in the same location their spotlights combine and create a hotter/redder heatmap. Areas of the frame that are unattended remain black. By then removing the gaze points but leaving the heatmap we get a “peekthrough” to the movie which allows us to clearly see which parts of the frame are at the centre of attention, which are ignored and how coordinated viewer gaze is.
eyetracker  visualization  film  cinema 
february 2011 by vielmetti
20 Visualizations to Understand Crime | FlowingData
While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.
crime  datamining  visualization  journalism  infographics 
june 2009 by vielmetti
HotStuff 2.0 » About
“HotStuff 2.0″ is an automatically updated blog developed by Dave Pattern (Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield, UK).

RSS feeds from nearly a thousand library related blogs are collated on a daily basis and analysed in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics.

A daily blog post is generated using a single word that has seen a marked increase in usage over the last few days. A “Word Wheel” image shows the strength of the links between that word and other words that have also recently seen an increase in usage.
via:daveyp  library  blog  trends  library-trends  visualization 
january 2009 by vielmetti
IT Conversations | O'Reilly Media Emerging Technology Conference | Eric Rodenbeck: Information Visualization is a Medium
"In what Rodenbeck claims as only the beginning, he foresees a future where information visualization will be both analysis and spectacle, subtly combining beauty with an unlimited ability to explore and play with data. Mimicking McLuhan, Rodenbeck also suggests that the process of visualization is embedded within culture and when dealing with massive amounts of data it becomes difficult to predict what conclusions are possible. For Rodenbeck, that means the visualization must allow, even encourage, people to "play" with data and hopefully draw their own conclusions."
stamen-design  rodenbeck  eric  visualization  infoviz  design  via:joegermuska 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Manifest Density - coloring your opinion
The colors themselves are also a problem. As I'm sure you all remember keenly from this post I wrote in 2006, perceptual image codecs spend more bits on brightness than on color because the color-sensing cones in your eyes have a much lousier dynamic range than the light-sensing rods. We're worse at distinguishing between levels of color than between levels of brightness. And since the percentage of the vote in any given spot on the map should always sum to 100, with negligible green (third party) contributions, the brightness will be relatively uniform (although admittedly not quite due to the perceptual differences between colors — monitor calibration and colorspace begins to enter the picture here, and is just as hideously complex as you might imagine).
maps  politics  visualization  psychology  graphics  color  neogeography  neo-geo-electo 
november 2008 by vielmetti
ScapeToad - cartogram software by the Choros laboratory
Most 2D-maps are used to represent topographic metrics: distances and areas measured on the map (multiplied by the map scale) give traveling distances and land surfaces. In some cases, this information is irrelevant or even misleading [see an example]. As a cartographer, you may wish to use map metrics to represent other data, such as human populations or amounts of produced resources. This is what ScapeToad is for.
anamorphose  geography  maps  visualization  map  mapping  java  neogeography  via:mejn  scapetoad 
november 2008 by vielmetti
cart: home page
This page contains computer software and documentation for creating density-equalizing maps or "cartograms" using the technique described in the recent paper Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps, Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 7499-7504 (2004).
design  maps  visualization  map  neogeography  via:mejn 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Database City: notes/linkbombing | serial consign
The curator of VISUALIZAR, José Luis de Vincente opened the seminar with an expansive overview of urban informatics: "Urban space is dynamic information... We've seen this in Calvino, the SI, Georges Perec - the secret lives of people and invisible cities"

Key questions: What is the role of networks and data structures in the city today? How can we use them to alter our perception of the city?

Key points: Visualization is a narrative medium. The crowd is a social and cultural object. Visualization can be realized as soft architecture.
conference  visualization  architecture  urban  information  urbanism 
november 2008 by vielmetti
One Pixel Webcam
This project began with a desired to feel more connected with my environment and particularly with the daylight. By taking one sky-pixel from a webcam in my town and duplicating that colour periodically as my desktop I am continuously reminded of the outside world. My desktop colour changes with the sky.
internet  video  visualization  landscape  color  time  ambient 
november 2008 by vielmetti
2008 Election Maps
excellent assemblage of 2008 election maps from Jason Kottke
design  maps  politics  visualization  map  election2008  party-like-its-2008 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Skills Continuum
Graphic Organizers that Support Specific Thinking Skills. Structures for capturing data that map to specific evaluation, generation, or decision making efforts. (or, why you should never trust anyone who only thinks in a spreadsheet)
organization  visualization  design  templates  organizers 
october 2008 by vielmetti
A CD spectrometer
A simple spectrometer can be built from a CD and a box. Cut a slit on one side of the box. Place the CD on the other side with about 60 degree angle. Look down into the openning on the box. The slit should not be too wide, otherwise the spectrum lines will be blurred. It should not be too narrow either, otherwise the spectrum is too dim. I use a 0.2mm wide slit.
howto  kids  visualization  physics  spectrometer  spectroscopy  diy  fun 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Media History Through Gartner Hype Cycle Graphs: 1995-2008 - Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology
Besides, they illustrate this wonderful quote from David Brooks's "Lord of the Meme" column in NYTimes: "In order to cement your status in the cultural elite, you want to be already sick of everything no one else has even heard of."
history  future  hype  gartner  trend  visualization  brooks  david  lord-of-the-meme 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Introducting Occipital at Occipital
# People that know we do a lot of image processing and that “occipital lobe” is the visual processing center of the brain will understand the connection.
occipital  images  visualization  cool  techstars 
october 2008 by vielmetti
A “Presentation Layer” at Bench Press
Cameron Neylon wrote a great post about the difference between recording and presenting data in an online lab notebook. The whole post provides a great analysis of the differences he sees between LaBLog, the UsefulChem wiki and the basic philosophies behind their use.

The end of Cameron’s post really got me thinking about the possibilities that a “presentation layer” could have in an online lab notebook. I envision a presentation layer that leverages recent innovations in webapp technology to automatically generate a flowchart-like view of all posts/data/experiments contained within one’s notebook. This graphic would be interactive, customizable, and could be coupled with methodology excerpts in order to provide a complete view of experiments over time.
lab-notebooks  quadrille  notebooks  paper  visualization  via:esinclai 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Fred 2.0 » LCSH is to Thesaurus as Doorbell is to Mammal
Doorbells are a Social science. Doorbells are Souls. Doorbells are even Ontologies - which would explain why Protege keeps beeping at me. But most of all, Doorbells are mammals.
blog  visualization  metadata  rdf  rdf-wtf  so-meta-it-hurts  lcsh  tangled-hierarchies 
october 2008 by vielmetti
DataPlace
The relevant statistics you need, the simple delivery you want
design  community  maps  neogeography  visualization  map  mashup  demographics  census  population 
august 2008 by vielmetti
BBC NEWS | Technology | Britain seen from above
"You may be interested to see this trailer for a forthcoming BBC TV show - they use GPS tracking, amongst other things, to depict travel and communication in Britain. I though the images of communication between telephone exchanges was particularly interesting, from a network perspective, but they also show routes taken by taxis, shipping, and aircraft."
technology  visualization  uk  satellite  pictures  graphics  bbc  gps  infoviz 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Lee Byron » Else » Stream Graph Paper
In February 2008, the New York Times published an unusual chart of box office revenues for 7500 movies over 21 years. The chart was based on a similar visualization, developed by the first author, that displayed trends in music listening. This paper describes the design decisions and algorithms behind these graphics, and discusses the reaction on the Web. We suggest that this type of complex layered graph is effective for displaying large data sets to a mass audience. We provide a mathematical analysis of how this layered graph relates to traditional stacked graphs and to techniques such as ThemeRiver, showing how each method is optimizing a different “energy function”. Finally, we discuss techniques for coloring and ordering the layers of such graphs. Throughout the paper, we emphasize the interplay between considerations of aesthetics and legibility.
via:bkerr  visualization  analytics  statistics  data  graphics  academic  graph  papers  algorithm  algorithms  charting  stacked  streamgraph  pdf  layered-graph 
august 2008 by vielmetti
j.b.krygier: geography 353: lecture outline / Cartography and Visualization
tremendous collection of heuristics and rules of thumb for deciding how to visualize data on a map; many different ways to put the same data into a color or texture scheme, and depending on what you are doing you get various levels of truthiness
design  howto  maps  visualization  map  mapping  education  geo  geography  math  statistics  data  academic  cool  gis  academia  cartography  archive  lecture  lectures  via:joshua  neogeography 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Last.fm – the Blog · Quality Control
Amid all this hi-tech digital trickery, it is sometimes nice to be able to cast one’s mind back to the simpler analogue age and the measuring devices of the past. For example, we hooked up an analogue meter like those used in many industries for decades, fed it some different input and ended up with a literal desktop dashboard that measures average website response time.
design  visualization  management  programming  statistics  analog  interface  quality  monitoring  graphs  live  system  blogthis  this-meter-goes-to-350-milliseconds 
august 2008 by vielmetti
OneGeology - Making Geological Map Data for the Earth Accessible
OneGeology is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world and a flagship project of the 'International Year of Planet Earth'. Its aim is to create dynamic geological map data of the world available via the web.
maps  research  reference  visualization  map  mapping  science  education  geography  neogeography  database  online  data  geology  gis  geospatial  rocks 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Playing With Complexity — slides and notes for my NLGD Festival of Games talk (Leapfroglog)
This was because there were now numbers that could be collected and compared. Doctors could now measure what effect different procedures had on the health of babies. Measuring things changes them.
that-which-is-measured-improves  metrics  measurement  visualization  design  complexity 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Credit Card Fraud - AnalyticBridge
visualization of card fraud showing dates and size on one image
fraud  credit-cards  analytics  visualization 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Mapping US news stories by state and population
great distorted map showing the distortion of the news coverage in the US, using a map style via Mark Newman
maps  visualization  cartography  neogeography  map  strangemaps 
april 2008 by vielmetti
cityofsound: Transport informatics
excellent collection of visualizations and maps including real time maps of transit infrastructure, using buses as giant spimes
map  bus  transportation  walk  walking  walkertracker  maps  neogeography  design  technology  visualization  visualisation  cityofsound  public  transport  infographics  gps  cities  cars  datamining  city  transit  future  gis  article  sustainability  mapping  travel  data  informatics  infrastructure  information  blogs  urban 
april 2008 by vielmetti
NetworkX
NetworkX (NX) is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.
network  socnet  framework  python  visualization  graphviz 
january 2008 by vielmetti
Developer | Slider | Measure Map
a user interface widget for picking a date range, provided by measure map (a piece of google). nicely done, and this deserves to replace a bunch of yucky date pickers.
adaptivepath  calendars  slider  date  ui  usability  visualization  webdev  widget  measuremap 
january 2008 by vielmetti
ThinkGeek :: T-Qualizer Shirt
Party like it's 2999 with the glowing display on the T-Qualizer that dynamically changes with any ambient sound or music.
party-like-its-299x  apparel  audio  electronic  embedded  t-shirt  visualization  do-not-want 
december 2007 by vielmetti
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science
The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit has been created to demonstrate the power of maps. An initial theme of this exhibit is to compare and contrast first maps of our entire planet with the first maps of all of science as we know it.
cartography  art  conceptmaps  graphics  infoviz  mapping  map  neogeography  visualization 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Seam Carving, Magically Intelligent Image Resizing You Can Do Yourself!
image resizing one width of pixels at a time pretty amazing stuff. thanks to myra klarman for the pointer
rsizr  seam-carving  photoshop  image  scaling  visualization  via:murn 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Raging Menace - MenuMeters
visualize your osx system usage in this plugin. via winston tsang who showed me it on the bus home.
****  analytics  apple  bandwidth  graphics  ibook  sparklines  visualization  sysadmin 
august 2007 by vielmetti
iA Web Trendmap 2007
london subway-themed map of web properties & interrelationships
*****  2007  map  maps  awesome  vizthink  internet  visualization  mindmapping  zeitgeist  mashup  via:mbeaton 
august 2007 by vielmetti
New Profession Unfolding In Beauty and Geekery :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
I know of limited pockets of people with the skills to do the hard work of querying the vast array of information, objects, and raw data then make something of value of it. But, there needs to be more of these people getting trained as designers with soli
design  visualization  quant  stamen-design  flickr  via:twitter 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Twitter Mosaic Quilt
visualization of recent twitters in mosaic / quilt format; lots of faces!
twitter  visualization  mosaic 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Photo Tourism
Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Our approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites (a), and automatically computes each photo's view
3d  architecture  browser  experimental  flickr  geotagging  photosynth  visualization  photo  photos  photography  washington  innovation 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Trulia Hindsight » Between Nashville and Smyrna
using stamen design's visualizer to see settlement and growth patterns in communities over time.
trulia  realestate  maps  visualization  nashville  smyrna  tennessee 
june 2007 by vielmetti
IRIS Seismic Monitor
nice global real time earthquake overview; visualization shows both current activity and enough history that you can pick out the plates of the earth's crust.
地震  quake  earthquake  geography  map  mapping  maps  visualization  science  geology 
april 2007 by vielmetti
InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web :: April :: 2007
the web has changed - "web 2.0' and all that - this is a good description of the common design themes in this era.
design  graphics  ia  ux  innovation  interface  internet  library  usability  visualization  web2.0  webdesign  webdev  via:mstephens7 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Venn Interface - RCC 2007
neat approach to putting things in multiple sets at once (only three, but that's a start). I miss the very old DOS Maxthink program that was an idea processor w/powerful grouping tools
design  interface  lionkimbro  prototype  python  ui  user  visualization  via:bkerr 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
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analysis  analytics  blog  google  googlecraft  research  search  usability  visualization 
february 2007 by vielmetti
OmniNerd - Articles: Internet Weather Forecast Accuracy
on the accuracy of weather forecasts (generally expect +/- 5 degrees on short term highs if you are looking to be safe)
analysis  datamining  forecast  prediction  visualization  weather 
february 2007 by vielmetti
it may be good for you.
visualization of the interstate highway system in clear legible graphics
design  maps  visualization  highways  highway  misc.transport.roads  transportation  transpo 
february 2007 by vielmetti
indexed
daily index card full of venn diagram humor.
analog  blog  cards  funny  indexcards  index  logic  paper  sketching  ui  visualization 
december 2006 by vielmetti
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