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Infographics Summary for 2012-02-08

Randall Hand — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0000

Infographic: Online Project Management Apps

Infographic: The Growth of Digital Signage

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 08/02/2012

Tiago Veloso — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:43 +0000

We can’t talk about smartphones without mentioning them. The great manufactors have a crucial role, obviously, in the spreading of smartphones. So, on today’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop, a lot at Apple’s iPhone, Android, Nokia and RIM, with the help of the infographics produced by Ria Novosti, Blue Stacks, Symbian, and TechCrunch.

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RealFlow 2013′s Hybrido Solver Demonstrated

Randall Hand — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:43:04 +0000

The folks at NextLimit have released a set of videos showcasing the new fluid solver available in RealFlow 2013. The new solver, called Hybrido 2, has been built from-scratch in the new version for speed and detail, and the videos show the amazing stuff you can do.

“For those of you interested, the new solver is an implicit solver, as opposite to the current one which is an explicit solver. Implicit solver means that just only a few simulation steps per frame are needed, and this means, of course, faster simulations. It means also that “bounciness” is totally removed. The current solver needs many many simulation steps if you want to remove ‘bounciness’, and even doing it you can’t remove it completely.”

via RealFlow 2013: Watch preview videos online now | 3D World.

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Japan Earthquakes 2011 Visualization Map

Randall Hand — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:30:32 +0000

Someone sent in this link to an interesting visualization of earthquake activity around Japan for the year of 2011. It starts off quiet, until the big earthquake that shook Japan and caused the nuclear “incident” that they are cleaning up to this day. Watch the video and it’s quite apparent that the massive earthquakes that shoot the island actually lasted for several months before quieting down.

Japan Earthquakes 2011 Visualization Map – YouTube.

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Daden release results of its Authoring Tools for Immersive Training survey

Randall Hand — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:00:47 +0000

Daden Limited has just released the results of their Immersive Training Authoring Tools survey, trying to figure out who is using immersive environments for training purposes and how they’re doing it. Not surprisingly, Education was the biggest sector but the tools they use were a bit surprising.

Nearly 47% of the respondents were from education, 15% from the health professional training sector and interestingly 19% were from the corporate sector – especially as there’s little sign of a significant uptake of immersive training in that area. Second Life, OpenSim and Unity were the top three platforms and Second Life, despite the removal of the educational discount, dominates still with 39% respondents using it.

Not all that surprised to see Second Life at the top, given it’s existing infrastructure and multiuser environment. I was surprised, however, to see Unity in there. Unity is a great tool (I’ve even started using it myself just for experience), but not one I would typically think of for immersive environments.

via Daden release results of its Authoring Tools for Immersive Training survey.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 07/02/2012

Tiago Veloso — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:08 +0000

Today’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop begins with Mobdis‘s fun facts about smartphones, followed by the HTC Fangraphic Results, from You Mobile, and by Tatango‘s take on where are smartphones being used. After that, The shrinking price of mobile, made by Digital Trends, and The Smartphone OS Complete Comparison, provided by My Phone Deals, close the second day of the smartphones infographics round-up.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 06/02/2012

Tiago Veloso — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:03 +0000

The Mobile Web is becoming less of a “exclusive big city thing” and more a real part of our tech lifestyle. And it’s incredible that, in the age of tablets and ultra-books, the Smartphone industry is far from reaching its full potential. During this week, we’ll be featuring lots of infographics about Mobile and the Smartphone market, starting today, with works from Symbian, Companion Link, Float Mobile Learning, Mobile Inquirer and Wilson Electronics.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 03/02/2012

Tiago Veloso — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:55 +0000

To close this week dedicated to biggest Social Media in the world – by the way, just a reminder, Facebook will be completing 8 years tomorrow -, we start with a fun, and yet impressive question: what if we printed Facebook? Cartridgesave‘s infographic gives an idea of what it would be like. Then, GroSocial shows the evolution of Facebook features, All Facebook helps defining shared media on Facebook, and after that, a look at all the profile photos posted by the users, provided by Pixable and FastCoDesign.

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Graphs Beyond the Hairball

Randall Hand — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:18:23 +0000

Anyone who’s ever done graph visualization has at one point or another run into the dreaded “Hairball” : Where the sheer number of connections overwhelms the data leading to a giant solid blot of connecting lines, obscuring anything useful. Robert Kosara has a short discussion of the problem and a few solutions to it such as PivotGraph and Parallel Sets.

For a while now, people in visualization have talked about the graph without the graph, i.e., graph visualization without the hairballs. Networks are clearly important and challenging data, and it seems a bit myopic to only look at node-link visualization. Node quilts and the PivotGraph represent promising steps into a very different direction. While they require more work to understand and are more limited in what they can be used for, they are also much directed towards a goal than just showing all of the data. I think that this kind of thinking will lead us to much more interesting techniques in the future than trying to teach the old node-link diagram new tricks.

via Graphs Beyond the Hairball | eagereyes.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 02/02/2012

Tiago Veloso — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:00:08 +0000

We continue with our infographic compilation dedicated to Facebook, which will be completing 8 years next Saturday. For today’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop, we decided to take a look at some interesting facts about the behaviour of Facebook users. Things like why do people unfriend each other on Facebook, the impact on relationships, and some of the most common status updates. Infographics courtesy of Hubspot, NM Incite, Edless Origami, Online Dating University and Facebook itself.

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DataScienceCentral.com Partners With Visual.ly to Expand Big Data Ecosystem

Randall Hand — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:49:59 +0000

Visual.ly is once again proving their stuff in the visualization space through another new partnership, this time with DataScienceCentral.com. DataScienceCentral is an online resource for folks dealing with “big data”, covering everything from technology and trends to social features allowing users to discuss issues. This new partnership aims to bring Visual.ly’s capabilities to this fast-growing market.

“We are delighted to continue our pursuit of the best and brightest in the data science field in an effort to serve our members in this dynamically evolving field,” said Tim Madison, Publisher of DataScienceCentral.com. “Joining forces with Visual.ly is an honor, as we see their contribution to the field potentially representing the most important step in the process -storytelling.”

via DataScienceCentral.com Announces Content Partnership With Visual.ly to Expand Big Data Ecosystem.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 01/02/2012

Tiago Veloso — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:47 +0000

The growth of the number of Facebook users has been nothing less than impressive. And, as we all know,advertisers go where the users go, so, it’s not surprising that the social network’s value has also increased trough the years, like we saw on yesterday’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop. Today’s selection, featuring works from Nanigans, Mashable, Single Grain, Get Satisfaction, and Social Media Today, focus on the history of advertising on Facebook, ans also on what would be like to have a world without it.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 31/01/2012

Tiago Veloso — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:00:13 +0000

If the recent rumors are true, we’ll be seeing a whole bunch of new tech millionaires (and some billionaires, of course), in the next few weeks. That’s because the long awaited Facebook IPO will be out soon, and expectations are, obviously, very high. Today’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop brings a selection of recent infographics about Facebook’s IPO, provided by Accounting Degree Online, Giga Om, Tech Crunch and Namesake.

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Infographics Summary for 2012-01-30

Randall Hand — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0000

Infographic: Tom’s Shoes, Giving Back One-For-One

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 30/01/2012

Tiago Veloso — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:23 +0000

Next Saturday, Facebook will be 8 years old. Yes, 8 years is what it took Mark Zuckerberg and his growing team to dominate an extremely valued part of the internet: Social networking. Facing what it could be the biggest IPO ever in a future nearby, Facebook is today, without any question, one of the dominant forces in tech world. Even more, the role it plays in our daily lives is like anything else we’ve seen before in the tech industry. So, the next two weeks we’ll feature some of the most interesting infographics about Facebook, starting today with the works of Social Bakers, Mindjet, IT Thing and Gawker.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 27/01/2012

Tiago Veloso — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:20 +0000

Friday’s here, and it’s time to close another week of Daily Viz from Visual Loop. This week, we showcased some of the most interesting infographics about SOPA and online piracy, finishing today with the works from Starmedia, Charts Bin, Mozy and Credit Loan. And, despite all the recent events, I’m pretty sure we haven’t heard the last of this kind of legislation.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 26/01/2012

Tiago Veloso — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:07 +0000

Most of the opposition against SOPA and PIPA is, in fact, anti-online piracy. Sure, the entertainment industry needs to reinvent its business, in particular when it comes to the content distribution model. The internet changed everything, and the industry must acknowledge this in a positive way, and not the opposite, as it’s been doing for decades. Today’s infographic compilation continues to show some of the aspects involving this complex issue, and are brought by Pajiba, Gareth Parry, Clickit Ticket, Ashley Angell and Sakari Pitkänen.

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TEDx Talk on Molecular Animation: Combining Cinema and Biology

Randall Hand — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:53:38 +0000

InformationAesthetics brings us a great talk from TEDx on Molecular Animation. Chemistry was one of the earliest forms of visualization, classic ball and stick visualizations that brought particles tinier than the eye can see to life. Today, many molecular visualizations are the same but new technologies are coming along to show new effects in bonds and structures with amazing detail and opening the world to whole new types of computational chemistry.

Next to a movie that originates back from around 2003 that focuses on the replication of DNA, he also shows a newer version that has been accomplished through “updated science, updated technology”, revealing how DNA mitosis through a nifty process of some quite ‘mechanical’ signal broadcasting system. At the end, he highlights the processes behind a malaria infection of a human child via a mosquito bite, through invasion of cellular tissues including the liver and blood. malaria spreads in your blood.

via TEDx Talk on Molecular Animation: Combining Cinema and Biology – information aesthetics.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 25/01/2012

Tiago Veloso — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000

Today’s selection starts with a couple of infographics from Loudpixel and Online University about SOPA – yes, still SOPA, but these are the last ones, really! After that, we start taking a look at online piracy, the real issue that led to this controversial legislation. Meobleshows us the top 10 most pirated movies of all time, Go-Gulf provides some interesting facts and stats about online piracy, and finally, MPAA‘s pyramid of Internet Piracy.

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Flow-3D Software to Feature Built-In EnSight 10

Randall Hand — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:27:48 +0000

Great news from CEI today, they’ve just annouced that the new Flow-3D CFD system will support advanced post-processing and volume rendering animation right in the GUI, thanks to EnSight 10.

“The integration of EnSight 10 will offer our users unprecedented capability to easily develop the compelling, dynamic images they need to conduct more thorough analysis, validate findings and communicate their results to their customers, both internal and external,” said Flow Science President Tom Jensen. “We spent a lot of time and effort looking for a solution that would give us the state-of-the-art post-processing and visualization our customers had been asking for. CEI and EnSight were a natural fit for us, offering both well-developed technology that could quickly plug in to FLOW-3D, as well as a similar open and collaborative corporate culture that will continue to benefit our customers down the road.”

FLOW-3D Users will be able to take a little sneak-peek of the new software at this summer’s European Users Conference.

via Flow-3D Software to Feature Built-In EnSight 10 | CEI SOFTWARE.

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