Geonames Maps

Monday, June 28th, 02010

Using geonames’ free data set and a few quick lines of scripting, it was possible to convert a table of boring data in to a sovereign country. Even on a blank page, the borders are distinctly visible without the need to draw them explicitly.

Ada Lovelace Day: Florence Nightingale

Wednesday, March 24th, 02010

March 24th is Ada Lovelace day with the intent of highlighting the achievements of women in technology. My contribution to this effort is an article about Florence Nightingale and her invention of visualizations and methods to improve the health and lives of everyone.

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Have Gun, Will Travel

Monday, February 1st, 02010

The ever popular CV, it’s that thing you update every once and awhile when you have too. More recently, the buzz words “living document” have been bantered around when discussing business plans and resumes and it is important to keep your CV up to date, but maybe not for the reasons you’d expect.

Þjóðfundur 02009: data mining a government

Sunday, November 22nd, 02009

On November 14th, 02009, 1200+ Icelanders came together to discuss their vision for the future of their nation. As they spent the day discussion and jotting down their ideas, all of their data was catalogued and index. This information has been made freely available to anyone to further augment, visualize and mine it for more information. So we did.

Venn Diagrams as UI Tools

Wednesday, September 23rd, 02009

As we collect more and more data, we need ways to create complex queries to analyses it. The tools we have today started with a search box and haven’t improved much since. When combining boolean logic with search, a simple solution that falls out of the mix is the Venn diagram. This article is a look at the possibilities of developing a new GUI control to quickly and easily create advanced search queries.

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Sections: Visualizations

Representing sets of data in non-tabular form is the work of visualizations. Complex representations which convey meaning and value to the recipient in a pictorial form is much harder than it seems. The ability to not mis-represent or mis-lead the reader is paramount.