Tag Archives: Data Visualization

Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe at TED

Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new [...]
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Autodesk Expands Online Guide To Sustainable Design For Green Building Retrofits

Autodesk has announced the availability of major updates for the Autodesk Guide to Sustainable Design for Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Launched earlier this year at the American Institute of Architects conference, the free online guide helps architecture, engineering and construction professionals make better informed decisions to achieve building performance goals [...]
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Autodesk Extends on Building Information Modelling

Autodesk has entered into a collaboration with Vela Systems, a provider of mobile field automation software for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. The collaboration integrates Vela Systems Field BIM Software Suite with Autodesk Navisworks [...]
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Watch Tom Wujec’s “3 ways the brain creates meaning” talk at TED

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

http://twitpic.com/8k606 – 6th Wedding Anniversary at Pasta Fresca Salvatore: Is she gorgeous? # [Interaction Design] Why User Centered: by Douglas Look on June 26, 2009 Here’s a compilatio.. http://tr.im/pW9A # [Interaction Design] 100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration: If you’ve ever.. http://tr.im/pR3E # Concept Designs due tonight… Then one week off! # [China] Frank Ching: An Old Idea That Really [...]
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Autodesk Helps United States Spend Stimulus Dollars

Autodesk’s Richard Humphrey and Terry Bennett spoke with New England Cable Network about how visualization and simulation technology is being used to help address shovel-ready transportation network projects [...]
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Listen to Peter Rieks’ “Autodesk, SQL Server 2008, and Spatial Data” talk at MSND’s Channel 9

MSDN's Channel talked to Peter Rieks, who is the product manager for Autodesk’s Geospatial products, about how they are delivering that vision, and the impact of SQL Server 2008 in this market, allowing their customers to visualize, simulate, and analyze designs [...]
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Watch JoAnn Kuchera-Morin’s “AlloSphere: a stunning new way to see scientific data” demo at TED

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements [...]
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Twitter Daily Updates for 2009-05-01

Since I’ve handed in my thesis, I can finally go back to playing Bass! Come check it out: May 3rd (Sunday), 54 Hengshan Road, from 2 to 6PM # [Typography] Univers Revolved (Characters designed be read in both left-to-right and right-to-left) http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7586 # [China, Shanghai] The Shanghai World Expo Theme Song: ?? (lots of dancing that doesn’t [...]
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Hans Rosling’s “New insights on poverty and life around the world” talk at TED

Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing [...]
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