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The size of Comet 67P

In Science, Visualization by Fredy Ore

Nigel Hawtin from New Scientist shared this image with us today of Comet 67P compared with Downtown LA. :) comet #67P/ #Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the ground. pic.twitter.com/3ByhPM5bYS — michel (@quark1972) August 18, …

Brent Yorgey’s Factorization Diagrams

In Visualization by Fredy Ore

Brent Yorgey has written a post on Visualisations using factors (Factorization Diagrams). Recently Jason Davies has written on the Diagrams using D3 and a demo by Vjeux. In 2012 Brent …

Visualization definition

In Visualization by Fredy Ore

vɪʒjʊəlʌɪz, -zj-| (also visualise) verb [ with obj. ] form a mental image of; imagine: it is not easy to visualize the future. make (something) visible to the eye: the …

Protovis is replaced by D3

In Visualization by Fredy Ore

Protovis, the free and open-source visualisation JavaScript library has been replaced by D3 a new visualisation library with improved support for animations and interactions. http://mbostock.github.io/protovis The final release of Protovis …

Google’s Prediction API

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …

A list of 22 free Visualization Tools

In Tools, Visualization by Fredy Ore

ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)