Archive for July, 2009

Mapping Crime

Posted in General on July 17th, 2009 by asjs
FlowingData, if you don't already read them: start now

FlowingData, if you don't already read them: start now

FlowingData has a nice post today rounding up 20 data visualizations related to crime and criminals. Most revolve around maps with temporal components shoehorned into a few. We love maps here at Graphient. We love them for how they visually describe space, and we really love them for the way they provide a fixed contextual grid for organizing other kinds of data. The map visualizations presented at FlowingData stop short of adding in other data and stick to simply reporting the facts of crime, but those maps could have been used to introduce and connect all sorts of other (possibly sensitive) socioeconomic data and maybe tell a deeper story about crime.

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The Hype is Dead. Long live the Hype.

Posted in FreeTime, General on July 2nd, 2009 by asjs
So, you hear a lot less about cloud computing these days and a lot more about “the Real Time Internet.” In a move that should surprise exactly no one, hype factory TechCrunch is going to be hosting an event about the implications of Real Time. I expect to see more of these events, seminars, and camps from the usual suspects over the coming months.
Find out more about the TechCrunch event  here!
Rest assured that Graphient will not be changing its business model or the specs of FreeTime to meet this new challenge head on. Like the Cloud, Real Time is an important concept to keep in mind as technology evolves in front of us. Filtered streams of data are exciting and in many ways important to the work we are doing at Graphient. But true Real Time is still a long way off and the oncoming hype spasm  will likely muddy the waters in many ways. Much like it did for Cloud Computing.
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