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Hurricane Blueprints 17 Jun 2013 | 09:06 pm
As we begin the 2013 hurricane season, I wanted to share something I created after last year’s monumental Superstorm Sandy. After the 2012 hurricane season I was trying to wrap my head around how larg...
Hurricane Coasters 13 Jun 2013 | 07:43 pm
I’ve been creating maps of hurricanes for the last few years. My job involves writing software to assess the impact of an approaching storm, so during an active hurricane season I become a bit obsesse...
Physical Maps – My 360|intersect Presentation 11 Jun 2013 | 09:03 am
I recently had the privilege of presenting at 360|intersect in Seattle. My talk explored creating physical map using various techniques like 3D printing, laser cutting, etc. This was a much more arti...
Hackers and Depression: Inform Yourselves About CBT 17 Jan 2013 | 10:31 pm
My wife is a clinical psychologist. Over the past week we’ve had long discussions about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is a certain type of therapy that is focused on using evidence-based m...
Drug Side-Effect Warnings as Word Clouds 17 Jan 2013 | 09:07 pm
I’m always amazed at how happy the voice on TV commercials sounds when describing a litany of horrible-sounding side-effects from a prescription medication. I was just watching the nice cartoon lady t...
RIP Aaron Swartz 13 Jan 2013 | 01:25 am
I’m in academic publishing. My grandparents founded a publishing company. My father ran it for a decade. I sit on the board of directors. You could say academic publishing is in my blood. Today I am n...
My Apache Flex Logo Contest Submissions 17 Jan 2012 | 01:34 pm
Now that Flex is being moved to the Apache Software Foundation, it’s time for a new logo. A logo contest is currently underway (ends today I think). Here are my two submissions. Each one has more deta...
What would you call this chart? 6 Dec 2011 | 03:07 pm
I’m working on a visualization of people logging into SpatialKey, and I’ve come up with the following table/chart. (larger version) Each row represents one customer, and each cell is one day. If the...
Printing Hurricanes as Gifts 19 Sep 2011 | 05:54 am
We had a very busy month of August at SpatialKey as Hurricane Irene tore through the east coast. Our insurance customers were constantly watching Irene as it built up and approached land, then as it s...
Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart 8 May 2011 | 07:04 am
This is another experiment in visualizing 24-hour cyclical data. My last post explored a method of linear representation (the Double Time Bar Chart). Linear representations have problems when it comes...
