Archive for March 2010

Visualization: We Feel Fine

(warning: this is causing my browsers to crash on mac 10.6.2; they are loading fine on windows)
We Feel Fine
by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
This piece is beautiful.  An interactive visualization again of blog post data including statements relating to emotions.  This is a constantly changing data set, refreshing every 10 minutes and gathering information from [...]

Visualization/Net Art: The Dumpster

(warning: this is causing my browsers to crash on mac 10.6.2; they are loading fine on windows)
The Dumpster, by Golan Levin, with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg for the Whitney and the Tate online gallery, 2006
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/

This piece is amusing and good looking.  From a usability perspective, the interface is not very intuitive and from [...]

Tableau and Battle Deaths Dataset

For the data exploration assignment,  I used Tableau, data visualization software and the Battle-related deaths dataset v5 2002-2007 the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP).  This and other UCDP datasets are available online at: http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/UCDP/data_and_publications/datasets.htm.
This is one of my visualizations charting battle deaths (y axis) over time from 2002 through 2007.  Each different bar shows the [...]