The last few months I’ve indulged in a deep dive in my own genetic data, provided to me by 23AndMe. Starting from basically no knowledge about biology or genetics, I’ve learned a huge amount about my genome and about genetics in general.
Lots of little side projects I work on are data visualizations and, unlike every other person in the data visualization game, I do them in XAML because 1) I’m good at XAML 2) I enjoy porting Python, Javascript, and R to C#. But much of the data I want to visualize is something that I culled, compared,…
I recently (translation: not very recently) put up an post on circle packing in Processing and completely forgot to follow up with a port of that algorithm porting that to C#. Since then, I’ve refined my implementation of it and put up all the code. I’ve tried to abstract the actual algorithmic piece somewhat into the “shared”…
A visualization of the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) books and which characters drive the story.
OK, Cory Doctorow, let’s see if this works.
I’ve recently written a chapter on storytelling and information visualization for O’Reilly media to publish in the book Beautiful Visualization.
And you can read it for free.
If you’re interested in government transparency, there is not better organization to watch than the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organization that is leading the charge to more government transparency through the release, organization and visualization of government data and processes. Every once in a while, Sunlight Foundation runs contests to either visualize or interact with…