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Nvidia has posted a new video to YouTube which is a montage of clips from PAX East 2010.

Here’s a quick look at what NVIDIA showed at PAX East this year, including the much anticipated launch of our new GTX 400 GPUs (GTX 480 and GTX 470).

via : YouTube

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FlowingData has a link to a March Madness bracket that shows the winners of the tournament. I think that this is a cool visualization, but that it could be done a little bit better. It does get confusing at points.

Leonardo Aranda takes a gander at who has won in each round since 1985, by ranking, with a color-coded bracket that resembles a stacked area chart.

via March Madness Bracketology | FlowingData.

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Why are you not allowed to make calls on your cellphone from an airplane in flight? Is it because they want you to pay for phone calls with their in-flight systems? Is it because cell phones interfere with avionics in-flight? Or are there multiple reasons? This infographic takes a look at the issue. It is a bit wordy, but it covers something that concerns us all.

via : Cell Phones and Airplanes

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Recently we covered where ESPN has announced that is will be starting a 3-D channel. Now, DirecTV has said that will have four channels full of 3-D content starting in June. Now all you need is a 3-D TV, like the Samsung PN50C7000, a 50-Inch 1080p 3D Plasma Television.

The channels will include ESPN 3D, a 3D-only channel called N3D, one 3D pay-per view channel, and one 3D DirecTV on Demand.

ESPN 3D is arriving just in time for the 2010 World Cup, which will be the first time a major sporting event is broadcast in 3D. DirecTV says there will be 25 World Cup matches available in 3D. For those not into soccer, ESPN says there will be “a minimum” of 85 live sports events filmed in 3D for the first year, starting June 11. The X Games, the college football’s ACC championship game, the 2011 BCS National Championship game, college basketball, and some NBA games are already on the schedule.

ND3 will be sort of a catch-all 3D channel with content from a variety of providers, including Fox, NBC, MTV, CBS (publisher of CNET), HDNet, and Turner Broadcasting.

via ESPN 3D coming to DirecTV in June | Circuit Breaker – CNET News.

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How do you improve your credit score? Pay off your bills each month, set up automatic payments so that you are never late, and wipe out debt. YourWealthPuzzle.com has created this fun infographic.

Using the format of a board game, How To Improve Your Credit Score is an easy-to-read infographic from YourWealthPuzzle.com.

via Cool Infographics.

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Here’s today’s links:

• Event: Autodesk Virtual Event on April 19th
• Tutorial: Design a Vector Pencil Character in Illustrator
• Tutorial: Create a Forest Scene with Livebrush
• Infographic: Venn Diagram explaining the difference between Geek, Nerd, and Dork
• Tutorial: Everything you need to know about HDR Photo Effects
• Training: Free Silverlight4 Training course

Here’s today’s Deals:

• Hitachi 1TB Deskstar SATA 7200rpm 32MB Cache Internal drive, only $69.99!
• Sandisk 4GB 30MB/s UltraCF Card – $16.49
• Up to 50% Off of Sound Recording Equipment at Amazon
• Up to 50% Off of Anime DVD’s at Amazon

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With the 2011 applications on the horizon, Autodesk has released their public 2010 Show Reel.

This Autodesk Show Reel illustrates the company’s leadership in 2D and 3D design technology by showcasing incredible customer work in the fields of architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, automotive, and media and entertainment.

Enjoy!

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The blog Information Advantage has posted an article describing their entry into the Interactive Graph Contest sponsored by ReadWriteWeb and Tableau Public. Using Tableau, they have a several nice data visualizations of public health by counties in the United States. Of course, it is interactive, so if you find some of it a little bit cluttered, you can always turn off some of the States, or zoom into a specific region.

Amongst all of the available choices, we decided to participate with a piece of analysis on “Activity Rates and Healthy Living Data”, for three specific reasons–

1. The contest reinforces our strong belief that effective visualization backed by solid analytics is the future of executive decision making.

2. Given the recent developments in health reform, this data presented a very interesting business and social challenge from an impact perspective.

3. We wanted to share our thinking and approach around challenging business and social problems where there is a nontrivial amount of data available and an opportunity to leverage advanced analytics and data visualization techniques.

via Data Visualization: Activity Rates & Healthy Living Across US Counties.

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AMD has updated their blog with a behind the scenes post on one of the key assets of having a couple GPU & CPU development company: their dedicated game development team that can assist developers in building code specifically designed and optimized for AMD CPU’s, ATI’s DirectX11-compliant GPU’s, and the ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology.

As we outlined in our Gamers’ Manifesto, AMD provides its gaming partners with developer tools, lab testing, technical engagement, marketing support and more. One of the biggest, most appreciated assets that we provide is the test lab. We get game builds from our developer partners and the test lab plays through them to get the real end-user experience. This helps to find and feedback bugs to the developer, test and ensure a solid ATI Eyefinity experience, and generate single card and ATI CrossFireX™ technology performance info that’s fed back to our engineers to help with driver development. Through this process we catch most bugs long before gamers would ever know they existed.

via Behind the scenes with the AMD Gaming Evolved team | AMD at Play.

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Ken Murphy, a San Francisco-based artist, is creating a 365 tiled, time-lapse video of the sky.

Time-lapse movies are compelling because they give us a glimpse of events that are continually occurring around us, but at a rate normally far too slow to for us to observe directly. A History of the Sky enables the viewer to appreciate the rhythms of weather, the lengthening and shortening of days, and other atmospheric events on an immediate aesthetic level: the clouds, fog, wind, and rain form a rich visual texture, and sunrises and sunsets cascade across the screen.

This is a work in progress. Currently, an image of the sky is being captured every 10 seconds from a camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium, on the edge of San Francisco Bay. The images collected over each 24-hour period are assembled into a 6 minute movie (at 24 frames/second).

The final piece will consist of a large projected grid of 365 movies, each representing one day of the year, and cycling in parallel through consecutive 24-hour periods. The viewer can stand back and observe the atmospheric phenomena of an entire year in just a few minutes, or approach the piece to focus on a particular day.

This will also be an active piece. The camera will continue to collect images and integrate them with the montage daily. The visualization will therefore vary from day to day, and will always display the most recent 365 days.

via : A History of the Sky

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