13 December 2009
(Field)
— a development environment for making digital art
Field is an open-source software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.
Based on ideas started at the MIT Media Lab, Field was in development in-house for around 6 years. But for the last 16 months it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the initial "beta" binary open-source releases for Intel-based Macs OS X 10.5 or 10.6.
11 December 2009
virtualair - Simulation Monitor
This library provides a Python Language API for visualization of air traffic situation.
10 December 2009
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09 December 2009
Bienvenue :: make art 2009
make art est un festival international dédié au Logiciel Libre et Open Source (FLOSS*) et contenus ouverts dans les arts numériques. make art propose des performances, des présentations, des ateliers et une exposition, situés au croisement de l'art et de la programmation de logiciel. L'événement est dédié à tous les artistes programmeurs libres, open hardware hackers et autres fétichistes de la ligne de commande.
invisible commitment - a set on Flickr
This series of abstract data visualisation represents the source code structure and work progress of a software collection. The intention was to represent the sheer volume of work put into open source software development and usually by a smal number of people.
05 December 2009
Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.
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29 November 2009
Solar System Scale Model
That makes this page rather large - on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it's just over half a mile wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web.
28 November 2009
BBC News - Information goes out to play
In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. It's called information visualisation.
14 November 2009
A Day of MBTA :: About
This site lets you explore traffic patterns of MBTA commuters across the various lines and stations over a single day. The data for this visualization was released as part of the Visualization Challenge by the Executive Office of Transportation.
12 November 2009
How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools | FlowingData
yeah!make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. … In this post, I'll show you how to make a county-specific choropleth map using only free tools.
07 November 2009
05 November 2009
Latest tilesets | MapBox
MapBox is a suite of open source tools to create beautiful custom maps in Amazon's cloud.
03 November 2009
The map of the future (Wired Italia) on the Behance Network
The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.
30 October 2009
Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media « rchoetzlein - Theory
This Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media was created to include relationships between art, new media art, science, technology, war and media theory.
28 October 2009
ASK KEN™ – Visual Knowledge Browser on Datavisualization.ch
AKS KEN is basically a textual search engine and the matching entires from Freebase are visualized as a ring chart. The user can then drill down the wedges and unveil related ring charts. Images and a textual description to each topic are shown in a separate drawer on the right hand side.
26 October 2009
Extra Cheese
Each line gets highlighted based on the complexity of the function: green for low, yellow for medium, red for high.
Well-formed data » Thesis
This is an overview of the visualization and interaction experiments I produced for my Masters Thesis “Visual tools for the socio–semantic web” (.pdf, 12MB).
oostring/weblog » Roadtrip poster final
This poster (800×1000mm) was designed to summarize and explain the summer holiday of 2009: a roadtrip/ moving house expedition undertaken by my partner Marthe and I, from Norway to England and back.
24 October 2009
7 Days of Source Day #5: smart.rockets | blprnt.blg
Project: smart.rockets
Date: Summer, 2006
Language: ActionScript 2
Key Concepts: Evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, rocket science
7 Days of Source Day #4 – BC Budget Visualization Tool | blprnt.blg
Project: BC Budget Visualization Tool
Date: September, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Data visualization, data organization, sticking it to the man
7 Days of Source Day #3 – tree.growth | blprnt.blg
Project: tree.growth
Date: September, 2006
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Lindenmayer Systems, recursion, biomimicry
7 Days of Source Day #2: NYTimes 365/360 | blprnt.blg
Project: NYTimes 365/360
Date: February, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Data Visualization, NYTimes Article Search API, HashMaps & ArrayLists
7 Days of Source Day #1: GoodMorning! | blprnt.blg
Project: GoodMorning!
Date: August, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Spherical coordinates, latitude & longitude conversion, Twitter API, MetaCarta API
18 October 2009
Data Visualization: A Primer and Practical Application | eyecube
Good Data Viz can illuminate and educate, inspire and entertain. I also understand that this is an area when I am a student and am happy to turn it over to the pros. So, with this post I want to share some of the smartest stuff I’ve seen, as well as provide you with some original commentary from Patricia McDonald, Planning Director at BBH Labs.



