Saturday, August 30, 2008

Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data

Data can be organized many ways on Many Eyes. Above is a chart of Olympic medals.

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Main Page - InfoVis:Wiki

Main Page - InfoVis:Wiki

The InfoVis:Wiki project is intended to provide a community platform and forum integrating recent developments and news on all areas and aspects of Information Visualization.

Using editable–by–anyone Wiki technology turned out to be the only way of keeping the presented information up to date and knowledge exchange vivid.

Nabaztag - A day in the life of Nabaztag - Nabaztag












Nabaztag - A day in the life of Nabaztag - Nabaztag

GarbageScout.com New York, NY - Found treasure map - a recycler's dream, a cheapskate's best friend, and a dumpster diver's companion

GarbageScout.com - Found treasure map - a recycler's dream, a cheapskate's best friend, and a dumpster diver's companion



Angel Franco/The New York Times

The Internet is going to the aid of New Yorkers who scavenge for discarded furniture: garbagescout.com alerts junk fans about where treasures might be found on the street, with photos that can be displayed on a cellphone and the time that has elapsed since the item was sighted. It's all free, but the immediacy of the Web means that scavengers must hurry. "Sometimes things will be gone in five minutes," said Jim Nachlin (above right), a computer programmer and confessed hoarder who started the site in January. For Mr. Nachlin, spreading news about trash treasures helps him control the clutter in his tiny apartment in Manhattan. "Instead of taking stuff home I'm posting pictures of it," he said. MICHAEL CANNELL

Friday, August 29, 2008

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Monday, August 25, 2008

RoboKids at the planetarium

Kids gaze at robot, robot visualizes kids and grandma looking on proudly.
Robot cleverly refuses to take own picture.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Makes me look good

Testing the new search engine Cuil...
The photo in the middle makes me look really good!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Graph Visualization

I'm going through my semi-annual review of visualization tools in preparation for my course in Social Network Visualization and have high hopes for ubigraph, networkx, graphviz, and pygraphviz.

NetworkX has bindings for both ubigraph and graphviz (via pygraphviz which I have not successfully installed). But I can confirm that it drives ubigraph quite elegantly.

This just works:

NetworkX is a Python package for working with complex networks. Aric Hagberg, one of its authors, has put together an interface between NetworkX and UbiGraph.

NetworkX + UbiGraph from Todd Veldhuizen on Vimeo.

The interface is now included in NetworkX. To see the UbiGraph demos, do this:

$ svn co https://networkx.lanl.gov/svn/networkx/trunk networkx
$ cd networkx
$ python setup.py install
$ cd doc/examples/ubigraph
$ python atlas.py

Installing the Graphviz I will need for pygraphviz was less trivial:
I found ryandesign's collection of Mac graphviz builds
and the faq explains how to get graphviz on your path (I had to modify tcshrc as per the instructions)

(For other purposes on the mac, you can't beat Glenn Low's graphviz GUI )
Ryandesign's
faq even explains how to update the version of graphviz in the GUI package (which I haven't done).

I installed Xcode tools so I could compile pygraphviz....
And that allowed networkX's pygraphviz to install (python setup.py install)

Promising! I see that there will be a talk on networkX at SciPy next week





Sunday, August 03, 2008

Wallace Minto: Freon Power Wheel

Wallace Minto: Freon Power Wheel

(see Mother Earth News Update and Expose)


(This is one of many wonders --including numerous perpetual motion machines at...

Rex Research rexresearch.com
PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89019 USA
alchemy618 [ @ ] earthlink.net.com.org.biz.info

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