May 2013
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April 2013
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Rob Kesseler →
More amazing organic photography and art by Rob Kesseler.
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DUO: The World's First DIY 3D Sensor by Code... →
March 2013
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Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling « Aerogramme... →
February 2013
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Code.org | Dedicated to growing computer... →
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Watch(via Royal College of Art | Innovation Design Engineering)
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AVR Projects | ATMega32 AVR →
A great list of projects (including instructions).
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City of Vancouver Rental Open Data →
The City of Vancouver has just released data on rental bylaw issues by address. As predicted there seem to be more issues in lower-income areas of the city. This will be a very interesting data set to play around with.
They’ve also got an interactive mapped version of the data on their website.
January 2013
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Building Circuits Without Soldering
I am way too excited right now about Bare Paint. It’s electrically conductive paint!
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Electronics Soldering Workshop
I’m attending this next week at the Vancouver Hack Space.
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Cinder for Creative Programming
Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
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August 2012
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A Map of Bigfoot Sightings
Recently, I’ve been playing with Tableau Public, a free web service for mapping data. They have a great gallery of visualizations including this one of Bigfoot sightings over the last 50 years or so.
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Maple Trees in Vancouver
This is a map I made of all the city-maintained maple trees in Vancouver’s West End. I used batchgeo.com, a great web service for mapping data to Google Maps.
View Maple Trees in West End Vancouver in a full screen map.
The data needed minor clean-up. I filtered all maples, eliminated some records that weren’t actually in the West End, and did a concatenation to get full street...
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Open Data Society of BC
There are some great projects in the works here including a Vancouver safest-walk-to-school map and lots of other fun and useful things.
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Lost Pet Names, City of Vancouver, 1999 - 2012
These are the top 100 most common names of pets that were lost in Vancouver from January 1999 to August 2012. I used open data from The City of Vancouver and created a word cloud using Wordle.
Don’t worry! Lots of these pets were found and returned to their owners.
Data Source: City of Vancouver Open Data Project
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Open Data Resources & Tools
Opendata-tools.org is a great collection of tools to explore and share public data sets.
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Martin Krzywinski - Data Visualization →
The website of Martin Krzywinski a bioinformatics scientist who works at the BC Cancer Agency. Great stuff!
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City of Vancouver Open Data
Today I found a great collection of open data from the the City of Vancouver. This is a Google Maps view of reported Graffiti in my neighbourhood.
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Watchexplore-blog:
Researchers study what the mechanics of whiskers reveal about human sensory perception.
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Understanding Modern Interaction Design →
Just signed up for this seminar from the Interaction Design Association. I’m interested in interface design for mobile devices.
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2012 Olympics: Apes vs Humans
A bit of a cheeky information visualization showing how many medals apes would take if they were allowed to compete. Found on visual.ly.
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NYT Olympic History Visualization
The New York Times has done a great job distilling the history of the 100-metre sprint into this fascinating visualization.
May 2012
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Makey Makey Invention Kit
Makey Makey is an invention kit built by two guys at MIT that allows you to turn everyday objects into touch pads and hook them up to the internet. Watch a demo.
The beauty is that no breadboards or soldering are required. I just ordered one. I’m not sure what I’m going to build yet, but I’m pretty excited about what you could do with this and the Web.
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“At their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another....”
– Bill O’Brien on art and science for The National Endowment of the Arts.
Einstein and Nietzsche would agree.
(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Lessons in Information Design
Lessons in conveying complex ideas with simple graphics from leading information designers.
April 2012
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iPad Peek →
A handy little iPad emulator for testing live websites.
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HTML5 Boilerplate
I’m using code from HTML5 Boilerplate to play with HTML5 and a new site design on my beta website. So far, it’s very handy.
Science Writing for Curiocity.org
I signed up recently to do some volunteer science writing for www.explorecuriocity.org, a great science website for kids/youth.
