Image Metrics
Video games are moving towards emotionally responsive character modelling. Well, that’s a mouth full, so let get the right lingo: Image Metrics.
Here’s a blog that talks about it. In the following video clip, Emily will demonstrate what image metrics are.
Not convinced? How about this one?
deluge of data
Wired magazine (July 16, 2008) has two new articles: the Petabyte Age and the End of Theory. Both speak about the huge amount of data one may harvest with today’s technology, and how the “ginormous” amount of data is changing the (known & existing) theories of science…
Data collecting is happening everywhere (via the Internet, particularly) whether [...]
Data Visualization (Presidential Election)
GraphIn this article by Paul Kedrosky (CNET News.com):
Dow Jones Insight is applying text analysis to thousands of documents to measure trends, such as favorability and issue coverage of the presidential candidates over time.
(You can see the rest of the “graphs” here.)
Dow Jones Insight, Nielsen BuzzMetrics and BuzzLogic are 3 companies offering similar data mining and [...]
Visualizing Communications
Over the past two months, MIT researchers have been collecting the electronic communications of the city of New York in order to build a census that shows, neighborhood by neighborhood, New York’s telephone and Internet links to other cities across the planet and how those connections change over time.
Carlo Ratti, director of the SENSEable City [...]
