Tag Archive for 'Visualization'

Blaise Agüera y Arcas on Photosynth (and Seadragon)

Published by Yuletide on May 3, 2008 in Cool, Innovation, Tech and Trends. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Seadragon (the underlying technology): “It’s an environment in which you can, either locally or remotely, interact with immense amounts of visual data.”

Photosynth (the product): “So what this is really doing is, discovering, it’s creating hyperlinks, if you will, between images. And it’s doing that based on the content of the images. And that’s really exciting when you think about the richness of the semantic images that a lot of those images have” [like the text appearing alongside an image on a webpage, content which then becomes linked to any images found to be related visually]

See the full talk by Baise Agüera y Arcas (at TED2007). (video is 9:27 long and worth every second!)

EDIT: OH, wtF!? I went to try out the web demo and I get THIS:

Windows XP SP2 and Vista Only

The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.

Are you kidding me?

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine

Published by Yuletide on March 16, 2008 in Cool and Design. 0 Comments Tags: , .

 

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.

So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before?

Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.

[From Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine]

 

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