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Interactive projection - dog park

2012-05-07T17:25:27Z

There is an interactive dog park projection at the Columbus Circle subway station closer to the Hearst entrance/corridor. I thought this was clever because I think they are targeting audience from my neighborhood, which is pet-friendly (i.e. many dog owners and dogs). Also, it is nice to see a "green park" in the concrete tunnels of the subway. The interactive installation is sponsored by Beneful. I should check to see if Beneful is sold at Whole Foods in the Columbus Circle mall. You can choose a dog, and throw tennis balls in the interactive field, and the dogs will fetch the ball. I think there are approximately 3 projectors/screens. I was curious to see many people interacting with this installation during rush hour (see photos below - taken over a couple of days around May 2, 2012). Interactive installations sponsored by Beneful. Dogs wait for you to play fetch.

This is why I love living in NYC... Cheap eats!

2012-04-26T03:18:03Z

http://realcheapeats.com/nyc/manhattan/

Music therapy by Oliver Sacks

2012-04-12T13:20:28Z

Such a great video:

Writing and Speaking by Paul Graham

2012-04-11T17:29:43Z

I really enjoyed reading this essay by Paul Graham, and was happy to read that famous people feel uncomfortable with public speaking...

I'm not a very good speaker. I say "um" a lot. Sometimes I have to pause when I lose my train of thought. I wish I were a better speaker. But I don't wish I were a better speaker like I wish I were a better writer. What I really want is to have good ideas, and that's a much bigger part of being a good writer than being a good speaker... {read more}

Nice way to celebrate Eadweard Muybridge's birthday...

2012-04-09T15:43:23Z

More Data Visualization notes...

2012-04-05T01:47:10Z

Information Visualization…  * Indicates that these are interactive graphics 1. Area Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/area.html] 1a.* Focus and Context [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/zoom.html - works in Chrome only] 2. Stacked Area Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/stack.html], [e.g. http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/zoo/ex/time/stack.html], [e.g. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/jobs.html]*, [e.g. http://flare.prefuse.org/], [e.g. http://flare.prefuse.org/apps/job_voyager] 2a. Steamgraphs [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/stream.html] 2b. Stacked Bars [http://protovis-js.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/bar-stacked.html] 2c. Stacked Columns [http://protovis-js.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/column-stacked.html] 3.* Index Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/index-chart.html] 4. Bar and Column Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/bar.html], [e.g. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/tipsy.html]* 4a. Grouped Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/group.html] 4b. Small Multiples Bar Chart [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/hotel.html], [e.g. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/wheat.html] 5. Scatterplots [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/dot.html] 5a. Matrix of Scatterplots (Anderson's Flowers) [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/docs/splom.html, http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/flowers.html] 5b.* Brush and link [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/brush.html] 6. Pie and Donut Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/pie.html] Relative comparison: how do the parts make up the whole? 6a. Sunbursts/Adjacency Chart [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/sunburst.html], [e.g. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/antibiotics-burtin.html] 6b. PolarClock [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/clock.html] 6c. Icicles [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/icicle.html] 7. Dendograms (tree layouts) [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/dendrogram.html 7a. Node-Link Trees/Tree layouts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/tree.html] 7b. Indented Trees [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/indent.html] 7c. Circle Packing [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/pack.html] 7d. Tree Maps [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/treemap.html] 7e. Voronoi [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1056018.1056041] 7f. Jigsaw [http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/158-wattenberg-final3.pdf] 8.. Line and Step Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/line.html] 8a.* Cardinal Spline [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/splines.html], monotone, basis, linear, step-before, step-after 8b. Catmull-Rom spline 8c. B-spline 8d. Bubbles [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/bubbles.html] 9. Sparklines [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/sparklines.html] 9a.* Flair-inspired from MPRnews [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/minnesota.html] 10. Bullet Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/bullet.html], [e.g. http://projects.instantcognition.com/protovis/bulletchart/], horizontal/vertical [http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/Bullet_Graph_Design_Spec.pdf] 11.* Bubble Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/bubble.html], [http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/page/Bubble_Chart.html] 9a. Dorling Cartogram [http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/gallery.html] 12. Horizon Graphs [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/horizon.html], [e.g. http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/horizon/] 13. Candlestick Charts [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/candlestick.html], [e.g. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/weather.html] 14. Rose/Coxcomb Diagram [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/crimea-rose.html] 15. Timetable [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/caltrain.html] 16. Stemplots (distribution of data and alternative to histograms) [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/stem-and-leaf.html] 17.* Parallel Coordinates (multivariate) [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/cars.html] 18.* Pan and Zoom [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/transform.html] 19.* Pointing [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/point.html] 20.* Eyes (from Processing) [http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/eyes.html] 21.* Force-Directed Graph [http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/force.html] 22. Fusion charts: http://www.fusioncharts.com/demos/gallery/ 23.* Draggable, zoomable chart: http://lab.dev.concord.org/tests/simple-graphs-closures/one-graph.html

Data Visualization urls to check out...

2012-04-05T01:46:30Z

1. Amanda Cox works for the nytimes, and does many visualizations for them. I believe there are some videos on this page [http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/12/amanda_cox_talks_about_developing_infographics_at_the_new_york_times_graphics.html] 2. Edward Tufte, the king of information visualization (JC has his books, and he also speaks at conferences). According to his website, he is having one on the 29th of this month. Usually, he only speaks twice a year [ http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/]. Check out his videos, search BBC News video, and there are many links that you can check out. This url is the most famous visualization that he is known for about Napoleon’s March [ http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/graphics/poster_OrigMinard.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters&h=497&w=705&sz=56&tbnid=uQiAQtWuB3vqnM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=128&zoom=1&docid=K5OYdEzmMM3OzM&sa=X&ei=EJ98T_bHIKno0QH02oDuCw&ved=0CFoQ9QEwBQ&dur=387], and he explains it in his book. 3. http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/ (this is the site where you can upload your own data, and choose the visualization. The New York Times used to use them, but have since evolved. You might have to check with the person who gave you data, if you can use it publicly. You don’t need programming skills, you can use this website. There was another site called Swivel that did similar things like offer data visualization tools, but they have since closed down. 4. Nytimes urls: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/the-new-york-times-data-visualization-lab/ 5. Here are some really good examples of data visualizations: http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/04/03/10-new-york-times-visualizations/ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/business/03stream.html 6. Stamen and Gapminder are some companies to check out. I believe Hans Rosling is connected with Gapminder. 7. A little more technical, but definitely worth checking out this library, D3 (http://mbostock.github.com/d3/)

DARPA projects on TED

2012-04-05T01:41:28Z

Another amazing video on DARPA projects including brain waves controlling robotics, nanotechnology, and hummingbird drones:

Amazing programmable and autonomous helicopters...

2012-04-04T20:45:09Z

Swarm at TED:

Robotics emulating hand shake

2012-04-04T15:29:55Z

Realistic hand shake communicates grip force, body temperature and touch:

Warby Parker's April Fool's Day Joke

2012-04-03T20:37:14Z

And website: http://www.warbybarker.com/ -- Warby Parker sells affordable and stylish eyeglasses. For each pair of glasses you purchase, Warby Parker donates a pair.

This is so amazing...

2012-03-24T02:29:29Z

An elephant paints better than some people. In fact, I can't believe this elephant's painting (AMAZING):

Interesting iphone app game that incorporates fitness...

2012-03-21T16:19:26Z

Found this blog post about an interesting game about zombies, which it incorporates fitness such as running. It was a successful kickstarter project. For me, I think this might be the adult version of Angry Birds. They also sell merchandise too. Read more about it here.

Funny media version of Snow White's tale

2012-03-14T22:18:10Z

Pi Day, 3.14.15

2012-03-14T22:05:28Z

For those math-philes, pi-pies: http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/14/14-pi-pies-for-national-pi-day/