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Entries from July 2006

Microsoft Photosynth

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Stitching thousands of photos of the same object/space from different positions & orientations to create not only a 2D composite, but a 3D model. Probably the best combination of both community collaboration and massive increases in computing power. Link here.

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Baby Name Popularity Through Time

July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Type in your name and wow. Baby Name Voyager

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Data Warehousing Conference

July 11th, 2006 · No Comments

http://www.tdwi.org/I definitely hope to make it this year, Aug. 20-25 in San Diego.

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Rosling’s Trendalizer Program

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Trendalyzer is the basis of Rosling’s TED demonstration. It loads data in proprietary format that might be simple to reproduce. It will export tables or graphs to Excel as well as output presentations to Flash.
http://www.trendalyzer.com/

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Dubai World Central

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

They call it Dubai Logistics City + the biggest airport in the world + 5-star hotels/golf/resorts. 250,000 residents. It was discussed in a recent Fast Company article, posted here.

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What Software Was Hans Rosling Using?

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

From the Gapminder website.
Statistical analysis toolhttp://www.blinex.com/
Geographic displayshttp://www.geoclip.fr/an/index.php
Enterprise analysis toolshttp://www.spotfire.com/It’s in German, but it has interactive chartshttp://sotomo.geo.unizh.ch/And the very cool Xcelsius from Business ObjectsXcelsius Demos Here

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Hans Rosling (of Gapminder.org) — Incredible Info Displays

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Hans Rosling’s talk at the TED conference is a gold mine of data displays and animation.
Google is hosting a full-on version of his application.

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Mind the Prosperity Gap with Gapminder.org

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

http://www.gapminder.org/
Very nice use of visual displays of information. Lots of examples.

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Information Display: Federal Spending

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

This blog entry links to a fantastic image showing the relative spending of tax dollars on federal programs.

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Supply Chains as Rivers of the 21st Century

July 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Age of the AerotropolisFrom: Fast Company for July/August 2006Huge airports, with thriving cities nearby, are rising everywhere–evoking everything we fear about globalization. By Greg Lindsay
Lindsay covers the joint development of supply centers and planned urban centers. Several cities are covered including Memphis, Dubai and Thailand.

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