10th
September
2007
“The other day we got a telephone call from a guy that wanted to ‘exponentially increase’ his Internet performance. He had an existing, custom built CMS and he wanted a complete re-design and re-build. We met with him, and he explained that he would like us to ‘design everything, ready to program’. He would then send our ‘detailed plans’ to India and let a cheap team program the whole site.
His budget? $1000.” (Thanks Airbag!)
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10th
September
2007
“The emerging field of visualization studies examines the use of pictures to improve the access to information, the quality of software, or the communication of knowledge. Prominent research fields in this area are information visualization (a domain of computer science), scientific visualization, or software visualization. Other highly relevant research sectors for the understanding of pictures in communication are design studies and the psychology of perception.”
posted in Data visualization, Information design, Information graphics | Permalink |
10th
September
2007
“This application example uses live questions from Yahoo! Answers to generate an overall, up-to-the-minute impression of people’s raw feelings and thoughts on the network. Typically such language visualization applications screen out common words, such as our Answers Cloud. When we look at such pronoun words and see how often they are used on Yahoo! Answers, an overall pattern of common meaning and usage emerges.”
posted in Data visualization, Internet, Language | Permalink |
