Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are research scientists in IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. Their blog is called Visual Hint.
I liked the way they depict a year of color in Boston, FlickrFlow:
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"The Greek offer is not sufficient and they have to go away to come up with a revised plan," said a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry. The Greeks must first have a plan that satisfies the Germans which this comment states they clearly don't yet and then the Greek Parliament will vote on it this weekend. This said, whatever package gets voted on in Greece is basically an up or down vote on euro membership so we are entering another uncertain weekend for global markets. A failed vote will likely lead to a hard default which may be what...
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March 13th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
I absolutely love alternative ways of viewing information. It’s the ultimate in thinking outside the box. Thank you!
March 13th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
cool weblog http://hint.fm/blog/ too..~
and, another interesting way to distill color info.. http://hint.fm/blog/2010/02/07/a-celebration-of-color/
those algos, and their, subsequent, product, ‘pre-digest’ those images for faster quantification via, further, computer processing..
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=computer+vision+object+recognition+image+processing
for starters..
even ‘Roger the Robot’ needs it ‘broken down for him’..
good thing his, like ours, processors are ‘wicked fast’..
March 14th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Funny, I showed that exact blog post the Mrs. Big Picture, who teaches a fashion illustration and design course.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
BR,
re: fashion, illustration, and design, as I’m sure She has heard, countless, times before, ~”They speak volumes, yet never utter a Word.”
on a similiar facet, they play a key role in understanding the old adage: “If you have to Advertise, why bother?” (the Product speaks for itself)..
anyway, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are, obviously, talented people..
it’d be interesting to understand whether they’ve cross-bred their color theories/interpretations’ w/ something like Prechter’s ‘Socionomics’..