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This is the first post on my awesome new blog!!My name is Mike Danziger, I am a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and my intent is to use this blog as a platform for developing and...
View Articletwitter blocks
I caught this story yesterday on Matthew Hurst's data mining blog, along with more discussion at TechCrunch, and wanted to write something about it while it was still hot."Twitter Blocks" is a new...
View Articlesame old problems
While I'm mostly interested in more complex interactive visualization tools, you can't really talk about a literacy for them without considering our literacy for simple, static charts and graphs. I...
View Articleinformation and aesthetics
One of the dimensions of information visualization that I’m particularly interested in is the impact of aesthetics on the design of functional visualization tools “for the people.” This is basically...
View Articlethe semantic side of visualization
When I started thinking about how to analyze the design of information visualization, and the ways in which it could be made more "layperson-centric," my initial inclination was to focus exclusively on...
View Articlevisual search engines
The visual search engine KartOO came up in a conversation I had recently, so I have been thinking a bit about the design of these kinds of tools. Obviously, as the internets get bigger and bigger,...
View Articlevisualizing... Halo 3!
(Disclaimer: I am a Halo fanboy.)The PGA Tour has been visualizing golf stats for a few years now with their ShotLink-powered TOURCast tools, so why not try it with one of the most popular video games...
View Articlecasual (as in sex or Friday) visualization
Last week I was discussing the Halo3 visualizations with Nick Montfort, and the conversation turned (as it occasionally does) to the context in which people encounter information visualization. In...
View Articlecasual (as in casual) visualization
Right after my last post on casual games and casual visualization, I remembered seeing this paper referenced on the conference program page for the upcoming InfoVis 2007. Zachary Pousman, John Stasko,...
View Articleno love for financial visualization
The use of information visualization in the field of "business intelligence" is interesting to me, as it ostensibly represents an area where a large community of non-experts (with regard to...
View Articleinfovis 2007!
I am off to InfoVis 2007! I'm very excited (and lucky) to attend, and I'm looking forward to a week of information visualization goodness, particularly with the conference focus on "information...
View Articlevisualization at the new york times
InfoVis 2007 kicked off with a keynote presentation from Matt Ericson, Deputy Graphics Director at the New York Times, titled “Visualizing Data for the Masses: Information Graphics at The New York...
View ArticleInfoVis impressions, part 1
I got back from InfoVis 2007 a week and a half ago, and after catching up on the week I missed back home, I am just getting around to putting my impressions in order. Since I have a lot of stuff to...
View ArticleInfoVis impressions, part 2: "Infovis for the Masses"
This is part 2 of my impressions of InfoVis 2007. Click here for part 1.On Sunday afternoon was the panel I was most excited about coming in to the conference, “Infovis for the Masses.” It featured...
View ArticleInfoVis impressions, part 3: "The Impact of Social Data Visualization"
This is part 3 of my impressions of InfoVis 2007. Click here for part 2.This panel essentially continued the discussion from the “Infovis for the Masses Panel” the previous day, and, to me, was the...
View ArticleInfoVis impressions, part 4: "Infovis as Seen by the World Out There"
This is the fourth (and final) part of my impressions of InfoVis 2007. Click here for part 3.UPDATE: Stephen Few has made a written version (PDF) of his capstone presentation available on his...
View Articlecontinuing the discussion with stephen few
Yesterday I received an email from Stephen Few indicating that he had responded to my previous post criticizing his capstone presentation at InfoVis. You can read it here.I really appreciate Steve's...
View Articlecontinuing the discussion with Stephen Few - my response
Before responding to Steve’s points, I want to take a step back and clarify that my original intent in critiquing his InfoVis capstone presentation was not to attack him personally, but rather his...
View Articlethe usability of YouTube
I just came across this short paper on the usability of YouTube that I thought was interesting given the recent discussion here and on Stephen Few's blog. The authors point out that YouTube is a hugely...
View Articlethe most wonderful time of the year
As the lack of recent updates suggests, it has been a very busy couple of weeks for me on account of the end of the semester finally arriving. On the plus side, I kicked out a draft of a thesis chapter...
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