Power of Data Visualization

Cascade allows for precise analysis of the structures which underly sharing activity on the web.

This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. While initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool and its underlying logic may be applied to any publisher or brand interested in understanding how its messages are shared.

Cascade was developed by R&D using open source tools including Processing and MongoDB.

Project Home Page: http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html

Video Demo: http://nytlabs.com/projects/movies/projectcascade.ogv

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This maps shows global software piracy rate and software piracy losses.

Despite the most significant global recession in over 20 years, 2009 proved to be a surprisingly good year in the fight against software piracy.

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People are amazing, surprising and interesting. They change reality with power of thought and make things happen. What is most exciting – all people are completely different in their attitudes and behavior. But this comes with price – it is difficult to understand people and even more difficult to find the best way to deal with them. Many people, who see programmers as extensions of their computer systems, will be surprised to discover that programmers are amazing individuals too. Programmers exhibit similar to other people behavior, they have different personalities and need individual approach.

This article explains  a simple theory about Three Dimensions of a Software Programmer that could help to put relations with these individuals on some rational basis.

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Tableau Software is the leading provider of fast analytics and data visualization software. Tableau Public visualizations have been viewed more than 7.5 million times since our February launch. That viewership is a direct result of talented and creative authors. To celebrate those authors and their vizes, they have made their own visualization, showing the top 100 Tableau Public views by traffic in Q3 of 2010.

Take a look and as always,interactive!

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Researchers at Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany have developed “diminished reality” software that can delete an object from live, full-motion video.

The most recent research project in the area of Diminished Reality by Jan Herling and Wolfgang Broll, Ilmenau University of Technology, Department of Virtual Worlds / Digital Games, 2010.

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What does a top notch graphic designer have in common with an amateur photographer who uploads his weekend pictures on Facebook? They both love Photoshop! This brilliant Adobe product is geek’s darling for almost two decades. The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop -- created by Tech King.

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It may be the start of a new trend, software that automatically upgrades itself silently in the background without ever bothering users. Google has been doing it successfully with its Chrome web browser, and soon Mozilla will jump on the bandwagon with Firefox.

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CodeCity is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities. The classes are represented as buildings in the city, while the packages are depicted as the districts in which the buildings reside. The visible properties of the city artifacts depict a set of chosen software metrics, as in the polymetric views of CodeCrawler.

CodeCity comes as a self-contained, ready-to-run application. It is available for Mac OS X and Windows. It also added a CodeCity image-only for other operating systems such as Linux (you need to install VisualWorks on your system before running CodeCity)

Great visualization tool for understanding code issues.

Developer: Richard Wettel

License: CodeCity is developed in VisualWorks Smalltalk under an academic non-commercial license and its use is therefore limited to non-commercial.

Download here: http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/wettel/codecity-download.html

Here is a preview with a CodeCity visualization of JDK (Java Development Kit) v1.5:

WordPress is a prolific bit of software used by well over 25 million users in some form. WordPress started from a very humble beginning to now power 8.5% of the entire internet.

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Finding the right e-commerce solution to power your online store can be a daunting task, especially when there are so many affordable solutions with the same basic feature set. zippycart put together the infographic above, which details the minimum features that make the best e-commerce solutions stand out from the crowd.

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