Aug 10th 09
WAINOVA: The World Atlas of Innovation
WAINOVA – Atlas of Innovation is the newest project from data visualization designers Bestario, who are also known from projects like Atlas of Elecromagnetic Space, TEDSphere Talks, Google Proximity between Cities and Data Signals on a Spiral. The online visualization map is based on data originating from WAINOVA, the World Alliance for Innovation, which brings together major science parks and...
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Aug 10th 09
Invitation: Egoviz – Visualizing Individual & Environmental Data
The upcoming information visualization workshop “EGOVIZ
- Visualizing Individual and Environmental Data“, to be organized at Arteleku in San Sebastián, Vasque Country (Spain) from 10 to 22 August, is still looking for collaborators and submissions.
Among the participating teachers, participants and lecturers will be Santiago Ortiz and Miguel Cardoso from Bestiario, author (and now...
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Aug 10th 09
How Different People Spend Their Day
How Different Groups Spend Their Day [nytimes.com] is an interactive stacked line graph based on data from the American Time Use Survey, which asked thousands of American residents (over the age of 15) to recall every minute of a day
The accompanying NYTimes news article compares the weekday activities of the employed and unemployed: “On an average weekday, the unemployed sleep an hour more...
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Aug 9th 09
Why Care About Networked Consumer Device Platforms?
For digital product designers, networked consumer device platforms are here now and growing:
50 million Blackberry devices(not sure how many of them were true smart phones) sold (source)
26.4 million iPhone smart phones sold (source)
18 Android phones are due to come to market this year (source)
25,000 Palm Pre smart phones sold (source)
14.6 million netbooks were sold in 2008 (source)
Recent data...
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Aug 9th 09
Motion Detection for Windows & Mac
Continuing the thread of understanding consumer product platform capabilities, Bill Gates today confirmed that Microsoft’s Project Natal (a full body motion capture system) is not only for the XBox gaming platform but for the Windows operating system as well.
“Gates talked about a world in which depth-sensing cameras such as the one Microsoft is adding to the Xbox allow people to control...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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