Archive for the ‘Data Mining’ Category
Friday, February 29th, 2008
My good friend, who has made a successful second career out of professional poker online and live, alerted me to this incredible story. As you may have noticed, Internet poker experienced a surge in participation as The World Series of Poker on ESPN grew mainstream popularity.
Until recently, all online poker ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Valentine's Day is here and with it a visualization with a perspective from the unfortunate break up.
Developed in time for Valentine's Day 2006, The Dumpster project is an interactive visualization of romantic behavior on a grand scale.
Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
A little while ago, I found some new Wikipedia visualizations from the guys that brought you Visualizing Wikipedia - The Power Struggle.
Found at A Beautiful WWW, their new visualization attempts to highlight activity in regions of Wikipedia that are predominately math or science or technology.
We developed a program to ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
The more time I spend writing for my blog, the more fascinated I become with infographics. Whether static, interactive, video, or a hybrid of mediums... infographics have become a sincere interest of mine.
That's just one more reason I've grown to appreciate the Cool Infographics Blog, where I found a ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
In Dec. of 2006, the NY Times published an article on a visualization that displays interconnectedness between multiple factors involved in significant terrorist events.
These images represent terrorist attacks and some of the actors, weapons and targets linked to them. The physical relationship of the items suggests the level of ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Not all information visualization is developed with the intention of offering a means to uncover some dramatic insight. For example, take these flight pattern visualizations found at Aaron Koblin's site.
You're looking at the paths of air traffic over North America visualized in color and form.
FAA data was parsed and ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
When I originally saw the premise of Cabspotting.org, I assumed the intentions to visualize San Francisco's Yellow Cab service data only went skin deep... merely a slick cover on basic GPS plots. I think I underestimated their vision...
Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Depending on your general interest in video games, you may have heard of the wildly popular multi-player game released earlier this year, Halo 3. In the 3rd generation of the game, player statistics are even more significant.
Personally, I'm a big fan and have probably spent too many hours in ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I don't check Google Labs often enough. Every time I do, I find some new gadget or tool I can't help but mess around with. This time I was surfing the net and found some trend analysis visualizations that caught my attention. The new Google Trends tool is ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
In case you missed my last post, let me refresh you on Digg...
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You ...
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