31 January, 2006
wheresgeorge.com - money and epidemics
So it turns out money is like a disease!
"Using a popular internet game that traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease in this country. This model is considered a breakthrough in the field."
Read the full article here. From SOCNET.
Categories: data sources info. visualization
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27 January, 2006
Showing They Rule at BayCHI
Come see me - and more to the point all these great people talk about visualizing data.
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25 January, 2006
Missing the point
"Connecting the dots" has become a euphemism for scapegoating Arabs and Muslims across the world for war and global insecurity. Tracking the Threat does a good job of distracting us from the real dangers that face us: nuclear war, global warming, and a war which is led by the wealthiest nation on the poor of the world in the name of 'fighting terrorism.'
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11 January, 2006
Retrievr
Description from Site: Retrievr lets you find flickr images by drawing rough sketches of them. Finding images on Flickr is mostly textual (tags, keywords) or social (contacts, friends, groups). Retrievr is, like images, visual. At the same time it's our testbed for image retrieval algorithms, so that when you add an image to a page in System One, it gets you the potentially most similar pictures back in realtime.
Categories: flash info. visualization
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8 January, 2006
Net Art Blog
artificial
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4 January, 2006
Useful guide to color palette tools
I was just thinking I should assemble a list of color palette tools and then I found Tim Broeker at Mambofrog has already made this fantastic resource. Who would have thought that I would ever look at colors judging by this site!
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2 January, 2006
Cryptome
Boing Boing had a link to Cryptome Cryptome this morning. According to Wikipedia Cryptome is: "a controversial website, hosted in the United States by its owner John Young, that functions as a repository for information that is prohibited or suppressed by various governments."
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28 December, 2005
Putting lipstick on a pig
"Well-known UK graffiti artist Banksy hacks the Wall"
by Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada, 2 September 2005
Today Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip, revealing the true nature of the withdrawal - not a move of peace, but a tactical repositioning in the war against the people of Palestine. After reading about the current situation at the Electronic Inifada, I saw this article on the Wall by Nigel Perry. I won't spoil it - it is worth reading from beginning to end. It raises questions that every activist artist should think about - and really goes at the question of can art/design change the world?
Categories: art & politics current events
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7 December, 2005
Disappeared in America
From Site:
DISAPPEARED is a project by the Visible Collective that uses technology-art, sculpture-installations and lectures to humanize post 9/11 "disappeared" Muslims. The majority of migrants detained in recent security hysteria were from the invisible underclass of cities like New York. They are the recent immigrants who drive our taxis, deliver our food, clean our restaurant tables, and sell fruit, coffee, and newspapers. The only time we "see" them is when we glance at the hack license in the taxi partition, or the ID card around the neck of a vendor.
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1 December, 2005
Save Tookie!
Stan Tookie Williams is a peacemaker on death row. He is an ex-gang member who now works tirelessly to keep kids out of gangs - writing children's books and speaking by phone to schools and youth groups. He maintains his innocence and the physical evidence connecting him to the crimes he was committed of is flimsy at best. All African Americans were kept off his jury, and racist terminology (comparing him to a Bengal Tiger) was used in his trial. He claims that he was drugged by the prison system during his trial and everything seems to point to that being the case. We must end the racist death penalty and save Stan Tookie Williams. Go to www.savetookie.org and read the discovery motion, and about Stan, go to some events, promote the site. Go to The Campaign to End the Death Penalty and get involved in putting an end to this outrage!
Categories: activism current events left & socialist
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21 November, 2005
Exploring Enron
From the site: :Using the Enron e-mail archive as a motivating dataset, we are attempting the marriage of visual and algorithmic analyses of e-mail archives within an exploratory data analysis environment. The intent is to leverage the characteristic strengths of both man[sic] and machine for unearthing insight. Below are a few sketches from a preliminary exploration into the design space of such tools." Site by Jeffrey Heer - thanks to Michael Dale for sending me the link.
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12 November, 2005
Visual Complexity
Manuel Lima put together this impressive collection of visualizations of complex networks. Here is some of the description from the about page:
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
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