Tag Archives: infovis

Visualizing the network

Tjerk Timan | 22 May 2008, 7:05 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

As a result of the course information visualization, a public screening was organized where all project teams involved got a chance to present their work at the Waag Society venue. Within a tight 6 minutes, concept explanation and implementation had to be given, in an almost pitch-like setting.
All projects result from a collaboration between the courses MHKU…

A New Discourse? – The Position of Data Art within InfoVis

Minke Kampman | 29 February 2008, 1:07 am | 5 comments | tags: , , , ,

InfoVis and Data Art

For our literature presentation on ‘Information Visualization and Data Art’ we (Erik Borra, Paulien Dresscher and Minke Kampman) read articles of Pousman, Vande Moere and Kosara. They look at data art from a scientific perspective and discuss how it may be put to use within ‘traditional’ information visualization. Reading the articles, the position…

Eight minutes of truth-editing

Tjerk Timan | 09 November 2007, 7:05 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , ,

This link is very interesting; an (almost) real time geo-locater of anonymous Wikipedia entries.
During a workshop on Recalling RFID, I got interested in where the actual story (in this case wikipedia entries) was being made on RFID. In a first attempt, a map was created that shows the sizes of countries in relation to its contribution to…