A person with two watches is never sure about time

A person with two watches is never sure about time

As the old saying goes: “A person with a watch knows the time; a person with two watches is never sure.” The single view of data is …

 

“You gotta have a theory”

“You gotta have a theory”

I just love that. So true. It comes from David Bolinsky from his talk at TED.

 

Visualisation meeting in Lund

Visualisation meeting in Lund

I was invited to this small visualisation meeting at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Center at LTH in Lund. I thought we were going to be …

 

Move from Processing to Eclipse

Move from Processing to Eclipse

Originally posted December 5 2008 Today I moved from the Processing IDE to Eclipse as an environment for the 3D demo development. Hopefully this will mean …

 

Information Entropy

Information Entropy

Entropy is a measure of the uniformity of the distribution of energy. See below reflection on this term. Could this be valuable to the analysis of a …

 

The end of The New Normal – McKinsey

The end of The New Normal – McKinsey

I just love this article from McKinsey. It ends like this: “Companies seeking high rates of income and consumption growth will increasingly look to Asia. The …

 

Honorable mentions in Yahoo mashup contest

Honorable mentions in Yahoo mashup contest

I sent an idea I had for a while to a contest at Yahoo for their BOSS mashup in october 2008. And I got honorable …

 

Interesting Google APIs

Interesting Google APIs

Base Data http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/base/ Maps http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/maps/ Mapplets http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/maps/documentation/mapplets/ Financial http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/finance/ Financial gadgets http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/finance/docs/finance-gadgets.html Charts http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/chart/types.html Visualisation http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/visualization/

 

Being inside the structure

Being inside the structure

To be in the middle of thousands of actions from different information sources simultaneously could be wanted. Like being next to a cell while it …

 

Ben Fry on Computational Information Design

Ben Fry on Computational Information Design

I just feel the need to repeat this. It encourages. “One significant difficulty with such problems is knowing, given a set of data, how to glean …