ACM Queue has just published an interesting survey by Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky on advanced visualization techniques.
Browsing Posts published in May, 2010
Mechanical Turk (Mturk) is a Web service where users, turkers, are paid small rewards (few cents) for short computational task called HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks). A contractor generates the HITs, post them on Mturk and later download all the result. TurKit is a Java/JavaScript API (developed by the User Interface Design Group at MIT) for [...]
Via O’Reilly Radar: ToxicLibs — an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing. The library, programmed in Java, contains something like 130+ classes devoted to computational design which, for the purposes of Search Computing, might translate into data visualization and interaction. The library features packages for audio, color, geometries, [...]
Apple has recently announced the acquisition of Siri, an application that includes voice recognition and search capabilities. As some experts suggest (see John Battelle’s blog), Apple could be looking for a search engine for its App Store. As of April 8, 2010, there are at least 185,000 third-party applications available on the App Store. The engine should not [...]
In the last few years non-relational data stores have drawn the attention of researchers and pratictioners. Their lack of fixed table schemas and the avoidance of join operators allow these tools to scale horizontally, storing huge amounts of data and providing high-performance access to it. This class of databases (also known as NoSQL databases) often employs a [...]
