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The “Buy Local” Boost
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Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data
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In just a few weeks, the CINECA supercomputing centre in Bologna, Italy will be hosting a Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data.
The scientific community is presently witnessing an unprecedented growth in the quality and quantity of data coming from simulations and real-world experiments. Moreover writing results of numerical simulations to disk files has long been a bottleneck in high-performance computing. To access effectively and extract the scientific content of such large-scale data sets (often sizes are measured in hundreds or even millions of Gigabytes) appropriate tools and techniques are needed. In-situ visualization libraries enable the user to connect directly to a running simulation, examine the data, do numerical queries and create graphical output while the simulation executes. It addresses the need of extreme scale simulation, eschewing the need to write data to disk. The workshop will bring together researchers, developers, computational scientists for cross-training and to discuss recent developments and future advancements in remote and in-situ visualization
I see that staff from Kitware (VTK, ParaView) will be there, and it seems they’ll be talking a lot about VisIt as well. Both fabulous tools, but I find it interesting that CEI/Ensight isn’t mentioned anywhere…
via Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data | Cineca.
The Core Skills of VFX – Skillset
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Skillset Animation has put together a nice little free handbook called “The Core Skills of VFX”, aimed at students in the UK looking to get into the VFX industry. Even if you’re not in the UK, it’s a great look at the skills and expertise you’ll need to get going, and some nice tips on how to stand out from the crowd.
The handbook is relevant to both students and tutors; it is designed to assist universities and colleges to raise the standard of VFX courses available and therefore the new talent available in the UK.
View the handbook online Via Google Docs, or download it via The Core Skills of VFX – Skillset.
How to make searchable, SEO-friendly, Web-based charts
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With all the fancy tools and graphics at our disposal, we tend to miss one of the big features of communication today: Making it easily searchable and indexable. In a post over at Poynter.org, they show how to use Google Charts and a few other tools to create nice HTML-based interactive charts and graphs, both widening the experience to multiple platforms and making it search engine-friendly.
The actual data in your graph is embedded in a Web page’s code. This makes it easier to search for your graph because numbers, labels and even your graph’s title become part of your Web page’s metadata. Selecting well-chosen words for your graph helps make it more SEO-friendly.
Graphics of the Web work across platforms. The resolution of images doesn’t appear as grainy on the iPhone, for instance, and folks on mobile devices can zoom and interact with graphics of the Web more naturally.
via How to make searchable, Web-based Google charts | Poynter..
How we describe ourselves, according to online dating profiles
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Media artist Roger Luke DuBois took data from 21 different dating sites and rendered it as a “Road atlas” Showing the qualities people have, and the qualities they want in people they meet. It makes for some interesting discoveries.
To join a dating site you have to, quite literally, “put yourself out there”, describing yourself for the express purpose of being liked. This seemingly simple act is quite complex. You have to provide, in addition to some basic statistics, two pieces of prose: you have to say who you are, and you have to say who you want to be with. In the second piece of writing, you have to tell the truth. In the first, you have to lie.
Check out his explanation in this video.
R. Luke DuBois: A More Perfect Union from H. Paul Moon on Vimeo.
via How we describe ourselves, according to online dating profiles.
Visualizing commitments with the 2011 DATA Report online
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ONE and Stamen Design partnered up to create some nice interactive isualizations of the G8 commitments to sub-Saharan Africa back in 2005. They have a print-report and some nice interactive visualization tools to let you explore the data.
Each page starts with 2010 giving levels; you can watch the “bubbles” expand for each donor country as you load the page. From there, each data page has pull feature that shows giving over the past 10 years; you can watch the country bubbles change over the years, showing the history of their aid assistance. You can also click on the years at the top of data tables below the bubbles to sort giving levels by year — think of it as sorting an Excel file right there in your browser. On the right side of each table, you can mouse-over each country’s sparkline — a line that graphs each country’s giving over the past ten years — to see where their commitment peaked.
via ONE | Visualizing commitments with the 2011 DATA Report online.
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