VizWorld is proud to announce its first sponsor, Tom Kranz of G.A.E. Ltd.
Tom Kranz has been running SiliconBunny, an information site for Silicon Graphics users, since the late 90s. For the last 8 years he has run his own IT Consultancy, G.A.E. Ltd, specialising in UNIX infrastructure, high end computing, and technical training. His client base runs from household names like Accenture, Lucent, and Toyota, to smaller niche studios and in-house technical teams.
We thank Tom for his business and for helping to bring VizWorld to the masses.
Angiography is traditionally a black-and-white affair, but Siemens has announced a new technology called “digital subtraction angiography” to add color to the display, realizing a whole new world of information previously unseen.
The new application syngo iFlow from Siemens Healthcare makes it possible for the first time to demonstrate a complete digital subtraction angiography (DSA) sequence in a single color image. Previously, multiple black and white image frames had to be reviewed to visualize the contrast medium flow through the blood vessels. Now with the colors of syngo iFlow the representation of contrast from its initial entry into the blood vessels to its flow throughout can be shown in one image.
GOOD Magazine has a cute visualization of US Immigration statistics mapped onto a US Flag, a creative combination of a Pie Chart style visual with a well-known visual.
Immigration may have taken a back seat during the financial crisis, but the issue still needs resolving. While illegal immigrants sneaking over the border is still a primary concern, it’s good to know who came to our country legally, and from where. Our latest Transparency is a look at the 20 countries from which the most people came to America in 2008, how many immigrants already had family here, and how many received asylum when they arrived on our shores.
It’s time for the viewers to chime in and give us your thoughts. We’ve added a few questions to the forums, and now we support anonymous accounts so feel free to visit the forums and chime in with your opinions!
In a recently released TED Talk, Hans Rosling talks about one of the world’s deadliest and most understood diseases: HIV. Relying heavily on statistical infographics, he shows how a good visualization can incredibly change the understanding of the situation. Narrating the animated graph like a sportscaster, it’s a high-energy presentation.
What sets Rosling apart isn’t just his apt observations of broad social and economic trends, but the stunning way he presents them. Guaranteed: You’ve never seen data presented like this. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be, in a word: boring. But in Rosling’s hands, data sings. Trends come to life. And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus.
Yesterday in Tokyo, Leadtek demonstrated their new “Image Processing Box”, an external device using Toshiba’s SpurEngine chip to accelerate video encoding the decoding.
Leadtek’s image and video processing box is based on Leadtek’s WinFast PxVC1100 card that sports Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000 chip and is equipped with 128MB of XDR DRAM memory, but connects to a notebook using ExpressCard interface. Since the original card for desktops is designed for PCI Express x1/x4 slots, the external SpursEngine box will hardly starve from the lack of bandwidth. The external stream processing box weighs 700 grams and is 45mm x 194mm x 90mm (width x depth x height).
The device can encode or decode up to four 1080P streams simultaneously in either MPEG-2 or H.264. Given that the SpurEngine chipset is already in Toshiba laptops, and few applications support the devices, it’s almost certainly aimed at software developers.
There’s been alot of rumors flying around about NVidia’s new GT300 architecture, but not alot of concrete information. The Inquirer takes a hard look at what’s known and combines it with some basic laws of physics and silicon density to come up with what we can expect and when. They also dig up some fun little anecdotes like this one:
DX11 is a much funnier story. The DX10 feature list was quite long when it was first proposed. ATI dutifully worked with Microsoft to get it implemented, and did so with the HD2900. Nvidia stomped around like a petulant child and refused to support most of those features, and Microsoft stupidly capitulated and removed large tracts of DX10 functionality.
Asus has revealed their newest motherboard, the P6T7 WS, which comes with an astounding 7 PCI-E Gen2 x16 slots. Certified by NVidia, it can take up to 3 NVidia Tesla cards and an NVidia Quadro card all at the same time.
This amounts to a total of 960 parallel processing cores providing a massive 4 teraflops of processing power—delivering 250 times faster computing and graphics processing performance. The ASUS P6T7 WS SuperComputer also provides users with flexible high speed I/O, graphics and computing options.
Yesterday in Tokyo, Leadtek demonstrated their new “Image Processing Box”, an external device using Toshiba’s SpurEngine chip to accelerate video encoding the decoding.
Asus has revealed their newest motherboard, the P6T7 WS, which comes with an astounding 7 PCI-E Gen2 x16 slots. Certified by NVidia, it can take up to 3 NVidia Tesla cards and an NVidia Quadro card all at the same time.
The “Crisis of Credit Visualized” has become a pretty popular tool for explaining the financial crisis to people of all ages and backgrounds, but it is still nice to see some competition in the form of “
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