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2221.
Data visualization for air quality(renci.org)
1 points by abeppu 16y ago|0 comments
2222.
by abeppu 16y ago
Just to be explicit about it, 20/20 vision corresponds to visual acuity that can distinguish features subtending 1 minute of arc. The angle subtended by a pixel at 326 ppi is arcsine( (1 inch /326) / 12 inches) = 0.87 minutes. http://en
2223.
by abeppu 16y ago
I totally agree that CS should be about CS and not software engineering -- with the caveat that more schools should have actual software engineering programs for those that "shouldn't major in CS". Currently, CS tends to be the preferred m
2224.
Winners of Sunlight Labs 'Design for America' visualization contest(sunlightlabs.com)
3 points by abeppu 16y ago|0 comments
2225.
Gender-bending body transfer illusions induced with virtual reality(plosone.org)
1 points by abeppu 16y ago|0 comments
2226.
R by example (mayin.org)
101 points by abeppu 16y ago|4 comments
2227.
Vegetarian robots(economist.com)
3 points by abeppu 16y ago|1 comments
2228.
Drawing mathematical functions by hand(math.brown.edu)
73 points by abeppu 16y ago|6 comments
2229.
by abeppu 16y ago
It's not my data, nor is it my blog.
2230.
by abeppu 16y ago
I don't think the point is to help 'understand' the data better, so much as to help you find similar series, which is admittedly a pretty narrow goal. That said, I posted it because I hadn't seen this tried, and it was creative, not because
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Internet-scale vision: Clustering Views for Multi-view Stereo (video)(youtube.com)
8 points by abeppu 16y ago|0 comments
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Mapping time series to Hilbert curve for finding similar time series(vis.renci.org)
31 points by abeppu 16y ago|11 comments
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The Visualization Zoo with protovis examples(queue.acm.org)
7 points by abeppu 16y ago|0 comments
2234.
by abeppu 17y ago
No one's brought up special sauce . The trick to getting hired to do interesting software engineering work when you're not a brilliant programmer is to bring more than just programming skills to the table. I didn't start programming serio
2235.
by abeppu 17y ago
I was just wondering about how Google Scholar works the other day. It does seem like they can't just have a manual list of sources, because in many cases, it picks up papers from the websites of their authors, not just from large sources li
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by abeppu 17y ago
But it's on the accepted papers list for sigmod/pods 2010, so with luck in a month or so we'll know more. http://j.mp/aPJuyA
2237.
by abeppu 17y ago
I love this idea. But it looks like for the moment, their 'compile' feature (set to 'default compiler') on ec2 is overloaded.
2238.
by abeppu 17y ago
I think it's a bit more than a culture clash. The issue is not only that the majority of source code readable online is open source; it's that making code readable is the only thing you need to do to allow people to copy and modify it. It's
2239.
by abeppu 17y ago
There's an equilibrium process here. People don't like jazz because it violates their expectations. It violates their expectations because jazz musicians aren't pandering to the tastes of the listening public. Jazz musicians don't pander
2240.
by abeppu 17y ago
You know what you can do as a university student in a technical discipline which can't really be done for free searching the internet? Participate in real research, guided and mentored by real-life scientists. Do lab-based classes. Ask q