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SproutCore HTML5 Open-Source Application Framework

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SproutCore is an open-source platform for building fast rich cloud applications on the web. Specifically, the tools we develop are suitable for building large-scale applications that scale to many millions of users across many different devices.

Given that between smart phones, laptops, netbooks, phones, etc. the one thing all of these devices have in common is that they can run a web browser. It only makes sense that the best, most cost effective way for people to access their data on these devices will be through the web. To truly compete with the native software written for these platforms, however, developers need a way to easily leverage the power of the modern web browser to deliver a compelling, rich user experience.

On the desktop, developers have a pile of build tools, frameworks, and interface designer IDEs to help them create rich dynamic UIs. We need the same thing on the web. That is why SproutCore exists.

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By admin – November 25, 2009 - 1 comment - Posted in Applications, Frameworks. - Tagged with , , ,

DesignDemo has Moved to uidemo.com

DesignDemo has moved to its own url uidemo.com. Designdemo started out in 2006 as a category in my personal blog which focused on screencasts of data visualizations. After much thought I’ve decided to move it to its own domain. The new site UI Demo is an extension of the original idea where we will focus our screencasts on more than just visualizations.
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By admin – November 24, 2009 - 2 comments - Posted in News. - Tagged with , , ,

Jobs Growth Forecast Visualization – USA Today

Screenshot of the the USA Today jobs growth forecast visualization

Screenshot of the the USA Today jobs growth forecast visualization

USA Today created a nice visualization of jobs growth between 2010 – 2013. It’s interesting to see the varience in different states, cities and job sectors.

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By admin – November 9, 2009 - 1 comment - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , ,

How Different Groups Spend Their Day – NYTimes Interactive

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The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.
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By admin – August 31, 2009 - 1 comment - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , , , ,

Personas – How Does the Internet See You?

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Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display until Sept 09 at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
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By admin – August 30, 2009 - No comments - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , , ,

Nexus – Facebook Friends Visualization

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Nexus is a Facebook visualization which creates an interactive image with your friends’ connections and their shared interests.
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By admin – August 27, 2009 - No comments - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , , ,

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment

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This awesome project was created by Sebastian Deutsch to visualize Twitter streams sync’d to music using HTML5 and Processing.

“We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen”.
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By admin – August 13, 2009 - No comments - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , , ,

What Britain Eats – Three Decades of Grocery Shopping

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“The landscape of British eating has changed dramatically in the last three decades. In the above interactive visualisation, we’ve documented the changing face of our grocery shopping, whether it be the rise and rise of the banana, the decline of liver, the growth of the ready meal, or the determined plod of the pork sausage. The data comes from DEFRA, which keeps an extraordinarily rich, but mostly dormant, archive on its website. We’ve brought it to life with what we think is an innovative tool, produced with the help our designer, Marcin Ignac. The icons on the left represent 5 main food ‘types’ – fats, fish, fruit, meat and vegetables. Click on any section of the donut to see how consumption of that food group has changed, or scroll along the time line for any one food to see its percentage share change in the donut”.

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By admin – July 23, 2009 - No comments - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , , , ,

OECD Factbook eXplorer – World Data Visualization

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“The OECD countries are displayed in 4 views for TL2 in start-up mode – each view represents a continent. A set of indicators is pre-loaded for this territorial level. The scatter plot shows 4 indicators. The indicatos´ names are shown along the two axes in the selection boxes. The selection box for the dot size is found above the scatter plot together with a slider controlling the size of the dot. Storytelling is available in the right view. Three stories are pre-loaded: TL2, TL3″
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By admin – July 22, 2009 - No comments - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , ,

Genealogy of Influence Viewer

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“This project is a Prefuse flare based visualization of the graph of influence nodes on freebase.com. The Genealogy of Influence project was started by Mike Love in the summer of 2005. In July 2007, Mike added the data to Freebase and ever since it is now growing on freebase.com on a daily basis through input of the freebase”.
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By admin – July 20, 2009 - No comments - Posted in Data, Visualizations. - Tagged with , ,