Tag Archives: Visualization

Best of the Web Weekly Roundup: Aug 29 – Sept 4

Best of the Web Weekly Roundup: Aug 29 – Sept 4

Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Wireframing Resources An excellent collection of wireframing how-to’s, tips, advice and resources. A great read for both Information Architects and anyone who works with IA’s. Audi Conversations Visualization Click on the “Conversations” link at the bottom of the page.  Here you’ll experience a social media visualization and aggregation of Audi related YouTube videos, Flickr Photos, [...]

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Top 5 Visual Search Engines

Top 5 Visual Search Engines

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Visualizing search results can tread a fine line.  A fragile line that separates usefulness and gratuitousness.  To some degree, this judgement is subjective depending on the orientation of a user’s brain. The visual folks out there will  be drawn to visually rich interfaces, and in this case, search results. Take a look and let me know what you [...]

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Google Earth reveals North Korean secrets

Google Earth reveals North Korean secrets

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Started by Curtis Melvin – a PhD student at George Mason University – the “North Korea Uncovered” project set out to reveal North Korea’s secrets. While it started in April 4 2007, he has already amassed a wealth of information by leveraging a community of amateur spies. While risky, it turned out to be very [...]

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Wolfram Alpha: A computational knowledge engine

Wolfram Alpha: A computational knowledge engine

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Wolfram, the potential game changing computational knowledge engine, (not a search engine) recently went live.  Why isn’t Wolfram a search engine? Well that’s because it takes your query and creates content from it, by outputting graphs, maps, tables, and information that you may not have directly requested.  Wolfram relies on knowledge from official sources to do this. [...]

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The NFL Draft and the Fan War Rooms

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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UPDATE: Now featured on cnet.com!  Read the article > As part of this year’s NFL on-line Draft experience, we wanted to elevate the voice and passion of the fan. By mimicking the concept of the team’s Draft war rooms, we setup a community for the fans to talk about their teams’ draft needs and ultimately [...]

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Pastiche: Keyword-Based Virtual Tourism

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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When most of us think of virtual tourism, we envision a Google Earth-esque satellite overview of a city; Pastiche heads in the other direction entirely with its text-based interface.Rather than navigating the foreign territory of a map, Pastiche allows you to explore the neighborhoods of New York City through tags and keywords that are linked [...]

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The Credit Crisis Visualized

Posted on 20. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. By Jonathan Jarvis.  Watch Part 2 of the video here > The above video is a great example of using visualization to explain an incredibly complex and intimidating theme. While on the topic of the credit crisis, below are some additional examples of how visualization can [...]

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Britain from above: BBC's Narrative Visualization

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before. As more and more [...]

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