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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 Manuel Lima’s “Visual Complexity and Mapping Complex Networks” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 conference

In this talk, Manuel Lima leverages the existing pool of knowledge from Visual Complexity (VC ) to convey a current portrait of network visualization. It illustrates some of its current trends and representation methods, and explore the reasons behind the recent outburst. It highlights some seminal executions and finalize with the exaltation of interactivity as the key measure of cognition in Information Visualization, by presenting a series of interaction design principles for exploring complex networks […]

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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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Design, Technology & Urban Planning: Silos of Technology, Interoperability, and Digital Cities

There’s an interesting article by Rob Colman in Green Business who chatted with Dan Campbell of the City of Vancouver and Geoff Zeiss about digital cities and how by enabling interoperability between architecture, engineering and construction design models such as BIM, telecom and public works network design, and gaming engines for video games, we can model cities holistically by creating 3D urban models that not only look good but offer the depth of information required to make real decisions […]

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Autodesk Announces Vancouver as Third City of its Digital Cities Initiative

Autodesk announced that it has designated Vancouver as the third pilot city of its Digital Cities initiative. A Digital City provides a way for the public, city government, construction and business communities to combine mapping, building, civil engineering, and utility information into an accurate city model that can be used to simulate the future impact of decisions at a city-wide scale […]

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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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Hans Rosling’s “Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen” talk at TED

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” […]

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas “Photosynth” demo at TED

Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them […]

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Information Visualization: Gapminder.org

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. The initial activity was to continue development of the Trendalyzer software. This software unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics…