visualization

Hack Your Town

September 7, 2011

“If guns are about power, then hacking is about secret knowledge, and knowledge is also power.” – Charlie Stross in The Fear Factory “Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” – H. Jackson Brown Chicago Trib news app developer leaves Chicago and moves to small town of [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How Big Was The Oil Spill As Of May 6th?

May 8, 2010

Paul Rademacher has created a Google Earth mashup in which you can overlay the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spread as of May 6th on any place on the globe. How big is the slick compared to where you live? Remember that the gusher will only keep widening in extent as long as [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Bring The Open View Project To New Orleans!

April 3, 2010

The Where2.0 conference this year was a great success for me. What The Hell 2.0 am I talking about? Read all about it here. If you still don’t understand, it’s an annual coming together of map technology geeks. I’ll write about the conference in a lot more detail over at VizWorld, so check there for [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Wisconsin In The News

March 25, 2010

1. Finally, Wisconsin is recognized for something we’re really, really good at. Thanks to Nathan at Flowing Data for posting this FloatingSheep gem. Flowing Data | Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores: “Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Photo Of The Day

February 2, 2010

JPL’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) False-Color Composite Image Of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.  Check out the mondo east-west fault scarp on this baby. Tweet

0 comments Read the full article →

Photo Of The Day

December 11, 2009

Virtusphere setup, I/ITSEC Orlando, November 2009 Tweet

0 comments Read the full article →

Making US Unemployment Maps

November 17, 2009

If you don’t know already from some of my VizWorld posts, I’m a Flowing Data fangirl. Nathan Yau is the younger, hipper, nerdier Edward Tufte, and one who likes to share his sources and techniques. Understandably, Tufte has his trade secrets, but it was like pulling teeth to get him to share what tools and [...]

6 comments Read the full article →

It Can Be Done

November 4, 2009

General Robert Van Antwerp, chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, recently stated that “New Orleans can no longer be protected from hurricane storm surges” and that “half of Louisiana will be under water by 2100.” Back off, man. I’m a scientist. The latest research indicates that sea level will rise at most 1 [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

“Everywhere You Go, Take The Weather With You”

November 2, 2009

Randall at VizWorld noticed that Weather Underground has a new 3D weather radar feature.  “They overlay the existing 2D terrain & radar map with a 3d isosurface extracted from the data.”  It requires a quick install of the Unity Web Player.  (By the way, the Unity game/environment development tool is now available for FREE. Go [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

My Interview With Edward Tufte

September 11, 2009

I recently attended Edward Tufte‘s Cincinnati lecture on Presenting Data & Information and interviewed him for VizWorld.  The post and audio interview are available here. Who is Edward Tufte? In the immortal analogy of @polarisdotca, “Tufte : graphics :: Feynman : physics :: Gretzky : hockey.”  Recommended by computer science and art professors alike, the [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

← Previous Entries