In the latest MIT Technology Review, there’s a short piece on the ‘Lytro‘, a camera that captures not just the light that falls on its sensor, but also the angle of that light. This feature allows different information, different kinds of shots, to be extracted computationally after the button is pressed. I want one. [...]
NINES is thrilled to announce the winners of the NINES Graduate Fellowship for the academic year of 2012-2013. From software development to outreach, it promises to be an exciting year! Elizabeth Fox is a doctoral candidate in the UVa English Department. She will work as coordinator for NINES’ collaborative work on the Shelley-Godwin Archive, a [...]
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “mook” (with a ‘k’) as “An incompetent or stupid person”; apparently it’s a word that achieved notoriety from its use in the 1973 film Mean Streets. But we’re not discussing that kind of “mook,” no sir: on this episode of Digital Campus, we’re discussing Massive Open Online Courses with Audrey [...]
The Chinese Fish Collection is a large set of 19th century watercolour sketches depicting species from the waterways and seas of China and Japan.
The illustrations range from the absurd to the accurate and the selection below skews intent…
The CHIPS project on popular music performance with technology (see previous post) is underway. There is online discussion of the issues getting started here and registration is now open (there is no charge for the event) for the sym…
Yesterday I visited the ever popular NYU ITP bi-annual show which is a showcase of the students’ experimental and ingenious …
I’m going to be away for a couple of weeks, with little to no Internet access most of the time, …
There is no shortage of sites and twitter accounts that point to a new visualization every day, some even more often than that. So why start another one? Tableau’s Viz of the Day is unique in that it draws from the wealth of Tableau Public, and all its picks are interactive visualizations with multiple, linked views.
I know it sounds like marketing-speak, but people post a lot of amazing stuff on Tableau Public, much of which is only seen by a handful of people. Many users post their creations on personal blogs or facebook, where they may only reach a few dozen of their friends – a real shame.
Viz of the Day is an attempt to show off some of that work. There are now over 50,000 workbooks on Tableau Public, many of which contain elaborate visualization views and, what is more, interactive dashboards that allow you to interact with the data directly in the browser. Have a question the dashboard doesn’t answer? There is a download link where you can get the whole package and do your own work (and hopefully publish it again). A recent feature also lets you play with the view and post a link to your current settings to Twitter and Facebook without leaving the browser.
You can follow Viz of the Day on Twitter or subscribe to the feed on the Viz of the Day website (there’s even an option to subscribe via email if you’re into that kind of thing).
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This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the showcase for “::Bodies in Space: Flow/s:: Second Annual Guerrilla-Style Performance and Theory Bake-Off/Graduate Conference” here at UCSB put on by the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative, the …
The guiding question for this podcast is: “When the smartest person in the room is the room, how do we design the room?” For one person’s answer, listen to the podcast here. RB 200: The Library Of The FutureAlt-Ac
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Nicolas Rapp dives into the patterns and growth of worldwide shipping in a six-page spread for Fortune Magazine. Nearly 90% …
The semester being all but over, it is time to reveal the work of my students in the course Lying About the Past that I taught this semester here at George Mason University. Because my course was larger this time around, the class split into two hoax teams, each of which perpetrated their own historical [...]
A total of 650 commits landed in WebKit’s repositories last week, ending with revision 116915. Web Inspector’s search box supports CSS selectors again, JavaScriptCore timers will now show up on the timeline and a context menu has been added for tabs. Text decorations, such as underlines, will now be rendered for text in :first-line selectors. Implementation of [...]
