Data Visualization
Brainjacking
By cdharris at December 29, 2005 | 9:36 pm | 0 Comment
Ex-whatevers will be horrified to learn that "brainjacking" is underway,? at least in the experimental mode.?? The Journal of Neuroscience reported in 1999 that Dr. Stanley,?? Professor Biomedical Engineering at Harvard,???had developed a method which extracts video of brain-received imagery,? although his initial experiments have focused on extracting video from the more...
(area)code project in UK uses SMS to map memories
By cdharris at December 24, 2005 | 12:30 am | 0 Comment
(area)code is an SMS mapping system which is intended to reveal, over time, personal memories and the?private ?histories associated with 5 key sites in the city of Manchester (UK.) (area)code invites individuals to collect and reflect upon their immediate surroundings during the course of day, and enables new forms of engagement and information exchange between person more...
Blog , Data Visualization , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Technology and Art
Mining Amazon’s catalog data to discover media preferences
By cdharris at December 24, 2005 | 12:16 am | 0 Comment
In an interesting repurposing of Amazon.com's enormous catalog, Music Plasma is a visual exploration tool which allows the discovery of 'similar' music artists, movies or directors.?Most probably a?visualization of modified collaborative filtering?methods. more...
Why you should continue to date me…. A data presentation
By cdharris at December 24, 2005 | 12:12 am | 0 Comment
At culturehole.com Joel attempts to demonstrate his date-worthiness with a series of charts and graphs reminiscent of the more...
Driftnet represents browsing behavior
By cdharris at December 24, 2005 | 12:07 am | 0 Comment
Driftnet is an interactive visualization projection of web browsing behavior, which?browses the web & displays URLs & download conditions. The data the software acquires is visualized in hexadecimal format without encoding, and depicts the 'waves and surges' of?sites and their content.? Essentially, the system "decomposits" sites into textures,?abstract color more...
Flickr visual/social network “visualized”
By cdharris at December 23, 2005 | 11:57 pm | 0 Comment
Flickr.com is an immensely popular photosharing resource that has also become an important social network.? Flickrland Visualization gives a better idea of just how popular it has become, and where particular concentrations of frequent users are located throughout the more...
Social networks visualized
By cdharris at December 23, 2005 | 11:46 pm | 0 Comment
Projects such as VIZSTER and LIVEJOURNAL are fascinating in their ability to visualize complex social networks.? Livejournal.com is an interactive data visualization of the social networks of livejournal members. the friends & 'friends of friends' of any member are displayed around their personalized icons (sorted into 'cliques'), their interconnections amongst more...
Webpreneurs
By cdharris at October 22, 2005 | 1:39 pm | 0 Comment
According to a July 2005 survey conducted by eBay, more than 724,000 Americans report that eBay is their primary or secondary source of income. In addition to these professional eBay sellers, another 1.5 million individuals say they supplement their income by selling on eBay. Mastercard published a research study on a new class of small business: the 'Web-Driven more...
Video iPod seen as threat
By cdharris at October 20, 2005 | 1:37 pm | 0 Comment
"Amid the explosion of available media outlets, advertisers will likely be scrambling even more to reach consumers, this time via portable media players, as a result of Apple's latest innovation, the video-enabled iPod - which is already offering hot TV shows such as "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" without commercials" - Reuters reported in more...
