http://blog.graphient.com Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:19:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've added some new screen casts to Graphient.com. Hopefully they'll help you get a better sense of what Timebinder is and how it works. The first one is an overview of the Timebinder interface: The second one is a How To guide for building a basic stock graph. Now that we ... http://blog.graphient.com/2011/11/07/how-to/ [caption id="attachment_194" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Three Ancient Columns"][/caption] How do you know what you've done is good? This is a pretty serious question for pretty much everyone involved in making things. It doesn't matter if it's software or tableware, if you have made something you need some criteria to judge it by. ... http://blog.graphient.com/2011/07/28/firmitas-utilitas-venustas/ After two hard years of development we're releasing the first version of our timeline and time series data visualization software, Timebinder. Timebinder builds dynamic visual timelines out of data. It doesn't really matter what that data is made up of - images, tweets, stock transactions, etc. as long as it ... http://blog.graphient.com/2011/06/30/sweet-release/ Back in 2009, when we were really just getting started with what is now Timebinder, Mark and I went to see Dan Bricklin talk at the New York Tech Meetup. Dan is the co-inventor of the VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. One of the anecdotes that ... http://blog.graphient.com/2011/06/28/our-anesthesiologist/ High five to David Sparks for this Isarithmic History of the two party vote in America from 1920 to 2008. This is one of those cases where animation really tells the story of the data. The data is sampled at the county level and for the purposes of clear presentation ... http://blog.graphient.com/2010/12/20/mapping-the-two-party-vote/ [caption id="attachment_155" align="aligncenter" width="457" caption="That's a lot of advice!"][/caption] There are shortages of many things when you are running a startup. Cash, time and talent are all limited resources that must be carefully managed. One thing that their is no shortage of is advice on how to run things. Whether it's ... http://blog.graphient.com/2010/04/26/life-in-the-echo-chamber-startups-blogs-and-seo/ [caption id="attachment_152" align="alignleft" width="236" caption="depressing, interesting"][/caption] The New York Times has an interesting (and somewhat depressing) interactive times series graph of US unemployment rates. The controls let you slice the data demographically to get a sense of how groups you are not a part of might be feeling the effects of ... http://blog.graphient.com/2009/11/08/slicing-it-up/ [caption id="attachment_146" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="geolocation + open data = awwesome"][/caption] Coming across our desk via tweet from Sir Time Berneers Lee: an amazing (if not amazing looking) google maps based data mashup showing marine traffic throughout the world. That is to say, Real Time (not really but close) data showing position, ... http://blog.graphient.com/2009/11/08/open-data-is-magic/ [caption id="attachment_141" align="aligncenter" width="617" caption="So, so cool."][/caption] The team behind the core technology that became photosynth is taking things to a much higher level. Sameer Agarwal and his band of computer vision desperadoes rebuilt Rome (or a reasonable simulation thereof) in just under 24 hours. This feat was pulled off using ... http://blog.graphient.com/2009/09/29/recreating-cities-from-flickr/ [caption id="attachment_133" align="alignleft" width="497" caption="FlowingData, if you don't already read them: start now"][/caption] 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 ... http://blog.graphient.com/2009/07/17/mapping-crime/