Tag Archives: infovis

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…

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…

History of electro, metal and jazz through visualization

Megan Adams | 29 April 2011, 1:52 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

This idea of mapping music visualizations as a means of discovery is something that I have previously touched on.  In looking at examples of music visualizations that have bore applications, something that I find particularly interesting is that some of the least mainstream genres of music have quite extensive applications built around them.  As experimentation with music evolves so…

Visualising music: the problems with genre classification

Janice Wong | 26 April 2011, 11:57 pm | tags: , , ,

Want to listen to new music but sick of staring at your old MP3 collection?

Streaming applications like Spotify, Last.fm and Pandora (US only) recommend related artists.

Sites like The Hype Machine and Elbows aggregate music blogs for instant internet radio streaming.

More importantly, websites such as Musicovery (the original interface) and TuneGlue…

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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Impure: a user-friendly visual programming language from Bestiario

Stefania Bercu | 30 October 2010, 7:01 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Last week, Barcelona/ Lisboa –based company Bestiario presented the audience of VisWeek 2010 with their latest information visualization programming language, Impure, an initiative to help democratize the Web by presenting Internet citizens with a flexible, easy to use tool to manipulate data and share knowledge.

Impure allows users to engage in creating info visualizations, by working with…

The New Cartographers #1, Pedro M Cruz

Margarida Fonseca | 16 May 2010, 10:06 am | tags: , , , ,

Pedro M Cruz created recently a Project related with the visualization of Traffic in Lisbon. His project lets you see the city waking up through the motion of traffic on its main arteries and fading away towards the end of the day. It also shows you which are the streets with swifter traffic, green lines, and the ones with traffic…

Our need for track and trace

Margarida Fonseca | 10 May 2010, 9:36 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

When we think of Maps, we are prone to think of a visual, detailed and accurate representation of an area. Our most common idea of maps is that they serve the purpose of depicting geography, we may think particularly about cartography and topography.

Maps are one of the ways we have been using since the Bronze Age, to make…

Data Choreography

Susana Zaragoza | 10 May 2010, 11:38 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Information visualization field is lately becoming more and more manisfested in the physical space;  in some cases as an everyday life practice and more often in the form of an ambient object .

We can observe projects in which data about casualties in Iraq is visualized in a tatoo made on a man’s back,…

Information visualization, going public

Margarida Fonseca | 19 April 2010, 1:08 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

2010 has great potential in being the year that Information Visualization (InfoVis) went public and moved from being a term only used by enthusiasts, to an interest shared by a broader audience.

I am not saying this just because my interest in InfoVis has considerably grown during the last months; I am stating this because several initiatives that were recently…