Monthly Archives: April 2011

Graphical Primitives versus Direct Visualization

Marije Rooze | 22 April 2011, 8:30 am | tags: , , , , , ,

A rectangle walks in a bar and orders a drink. An attractive circle sits on a bar stool next to the rectangle. ‘Hey Circle, want to get primitive?’ The Circle looks the rectangle slowly up and down and says: ‘Sorry, you’re not my type.’


The Unbound Book Conference: bloggers needed May 19-21!

Elias van Hees | 21 April 2011, 10:22 am | tags: , ,

We’re seeking bloggers for the Unbound Book Conference (http://eboekenstad.nl/unbound/), a timely international forum on the future of the book and reading and publishing in the digital age.

Dates
Thursday, May 19 @ Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Friday, May 20 @ Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), Den Haag
Saturday, May 21 @ Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam (ObA)

Speakers include:
Frank van…


What’s that on the map? Problems with geo-visualization

Joris Pekel | 21 April 2011, 10:00 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

The last couple of weeks, my data-visualization team and I, have been working on our Europeana project. Europeana is a big heritage-digitization project funded by the European Union. Their goal is to digitize all of Europe’s heritage objects and to make them available online. There are several reasons why the EU wanted to create such a huge and expensive…


Visualizing what is happening

olga paraskevopoulou | 21 April 2011, 9:47 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Going through an older post in the MoM’s blog referring to Walter’s Ong book “Orality and Literacy”, I discovered a term referring to a new “hybrid form” of culture that has spread on the internet: The Secondary Orality. The term is emphasizing the “re-emergence of an oral type of discourse within literate cultures which is fostering a communal sense and is

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The Online Love Search: A self assessment

ibtisam omer | 20 April 2011, 6:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

eDarling -The new way of meeting a partner, that really suits you

On their frontpage, eDarling.se suggestively guarantees its visitors a suitable match.  So how does an online dating site such as eDarling set out to get to know you, in order to match you with another individual, which really suits you? Simple,…


Scientific referencing and hypertext: The necessity of a visual overview

Frank Molenaar | 20 April 2011, 1:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This entry is meant as an introduction to the tool my group and I are developing for our Datavisualisation class. We will be trying to geographically map the rise and diffusion of different research fields over time. The reason for wanting to see these developments are diverse, but one of them derives from the increasing amount of (academic) information on…


Mondrian in the age of Information Visualization.

Fenneke Mink | 20 April 2011, 12:48 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) started painting his artworks in the style of the Amsterdam Academy. He made dark realistic landscapes and later in his carer he painted more lighter paintings when he evolved towards De Stijl.  From the year 1911 in Paris he became influenced by the styles of symbolism and cubism. Here he comes…


What Data Visualization Can Learn from Game Design

Philip Man | 19 April 2011, 9:38 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

When reading articles and books on data visualization, the focus is often on ampiflying cognition by using external (visual) aids. In this blogpost I attempt to conduct a kind of meta-analysis on data visualization by looking beyond the content of the visualization and concentrating more on the intrinsic motivations of the user.


The Simple Ways of Information Visualization

Marte Lindstrom | 18 April 2011, 11:18 pm | tags: , , , , ,

There is no doubt that the human brain is an amazing and complex bodily organ, perhaps even the most amazing of them all. Personally, I do not think I will ever cease to be amazing by it.  But, despite its impressive capabilities, the brain has its limitations too. In fact, Norman goes as far as to say that…


Social Inclusion through Digital Media, Medellín

Fei An Tjan | 18 April 2011, 8:35 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

In my second week in Medellín I spent some time on my project with Hiperbarrio. The organization tries to reach social inclusion through means of digital media in several depressed neighbourhoods in Medellín. By giving workshops in photography, blogging, podcasting and the use of free software, they try to keep the youngsters off the streets.