Monthly Archives: May 2011

Show me the Data 2011

Bernhard Rieder | 09 May 2011, 10:13 am | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Show me the Data 2011

A presentations of six multidisciplinary data visualization projects developed by Master students of the University of Amsterdam (Media Studies and Computer Science)  and the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design.


Sciencemappr: Some dataset related implications

Xander Stolwijk | 09 May 2011, 9:36 am | tags:

In my previous blogpost I posed some questions concerning the visualization project I am currently working on. The purpose of the project is to visualize global scientific interest for human rights issues and the emergence and disappearance of scientific disciplines concerning these issues. In the following I point to some dataset related implications and limitations that we encountered…


Getting data, sharing data and raising political awareness.

olga paraskevopoulou | 07 May 2011, 3:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

Using vision to amplify cognition. According to the Light Switch Theory, vision appeared on Earth around 543 million years ago and triggered the Cambrian explosion (evolution’s Big Bang). Before that none of the living entities could see and relied to other senses for their survival. The evolution of the eye changed life dynamics. When living organisms were able to

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The Online Love Search: cash, credit or no love?

ibtisam omer | 07 May 2011, 3:02 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

“Register now and  find the man of your heart’s desire within less than half an hour” or  “  Everyone deserves a loving other half, take our personality test and find your match ”  or  “ Looking for the right partner in all the wrong places?  Search no further, join today and discover your potential life partner might just be living

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Data visualization and story telling

Joris Pekel | 06 May 2011, 11:08 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

For as long as people have been around, the have used stories to share information, cultural values and experience. Most of the times this is done orally, but even in ancient times, mankind created drawings to visualize their information. With the invention of the printing press, new possibilities arose to share a story, either verbal or with drawings. Until today,…


Interactivity in the Online Graphics of The New York Times and The Guardian

Marije Rooze | 06 May 2011, 10:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Almost every story a journalist writes contains the five W’s: who, what, where, why, when. However, in the last two decades the journalistic profession and it’s employer were forced to make some new transformations. These changes have been caused by different reasons but one stands above the others. This one is even so important that Brian Boyer added a sixth…


Using 3D to ’spicen up’ geographic datavisualization

Emina Sendijarevic | 06 May 2011, 8:27 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In the last 30 years advances in computer science and computer graphics have largely contributed to making maps interactive and dynamic. Interactive, computerized maps have the advantage of enabling the user to interact with the display, but are also able to express additional information for the user’s interest (Andrienko & Andrienko, 1999). Still, the emphasis of interactive computerized maps, as…


Live Transmission of Labour Day in Bogota

Fei An Tjan | 04 May 2011, 9:54 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

I attended the processions of 1 May (Labour day) in Colombia. The idea was as follows: At 8 AM, we would all gather on the square to set up the installation, DJ turntables, waterproof tent (it rains a lot), and of course, the computer and cameras. The performance would be filmed by 2 cameras and then be transmitted live over the Internet.


A Question of Data/Art

Fenneke Mink | 04 May 2011, 11:31 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

A question of data/art*

*delete as necessary

A  well known problem of data visualization is according to Lev Manovich that “people intuitively identify visualizations as infovis even though they consist not from vector elements but from media text or images”. I state that within data art this problem does not persist since data art is fundamentally not about…


Sciencemappr: Trying to unleash the hypertextual potential of the Web

Frank Molenaar | 04 May 2011, 12:01 am | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Last week I already pointed out the amazing significance and potential of the Internet to organize, structure and index all knowledge gathered across the globe. Rather than an indirect library of indexes and references, the web is equipped with the possibility to reference directly and instantly. This takes care of both the physical as well as the psychological issues that…