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Stamen on Manyeyes

| 02.23.07

I was first introduced to IBM’s new Manyeyes project when Fernanda Viegas spoke about it at Adaptive Path’s excellent IDEA conference in Seattle back in October. We presented too; it was a “morning of visualization” 🙂 . Mike Migurski’s Digg friends Since it launched, the site has deservedly gotten a ton of attention and seems...

Amgen: Quokka redux

| 02.20.07

It lives: The 2007 Amgen Tour of California started this weekend. It looks like some of my former colleagues at Quokka who are now at Macromedia Adobe have been working on the realtime race tracker. Live Race Coverage Francis Potter from Adobe sent over the annoucement from Yottapixel: An engineering team at Adobe has been...

Cabspotting, always in progress

| 02.13.07

When the Exploratorium and Scott Snibbe approached us in 2005 to visualize realtime GPS positions of San Francisco taxi cabs in the Cabspotting project, we leapt at the chance. Taxi data is highly dynamic, mappings of it change noticeably from viewing to viewing, has an easy reference to the real workd, and the data lends...