Yearly Archives: 2008

SpatialKey: insanely good geovisualization

I’m a little late on this, so I hope it’s old news to most readers that Universal Mind, where I’ve worked for the past 2 months, just launched a technology preview of the SpatialKey visualization system.  This is a big deal.

Andrew Powell, Doug McCune, and Brandon Purcell have already posted great introductions to SpatialKey, so [...]

seeing the plate

I’m really digging the Boston Globe’s recent visualization tracking Manny Ramirez’s hunt for 500 home runs (reached on May 31st).

This cool app answers seemingly every question about when and how Manny hit his home runs…except for the one I’m most interested in: where on the plate is Manny most likely to hit a [...]

isolining package for ActionScript 3

A week or so back I wrote about a package I ported/modified to create the Delaunay triangulation in Flash with a few AS3 classes. As I noted there, such a triangulated irregular network (TIN) allows us to interpolate isolines — lines of constant value (aka isarithms, commonly called contours).
So, given a field of points [...]