Find: designing data

Art Swanson (@art_swanson) 6/13/12 7:01 PM Designing data zite.to/LSjKPb via @Zite

Tool: HCI User Advocate: Interactive D3 Experiments

http://hci-user-advocate.blogspot.com/2012/06/interactive-d3-experiments.html...

(Source: https://twitter.com/landay/statuses/213341462069383168)

Spotted: Preserving the browsing experience with visualization -- supporting serendipitous book discoveries through information visualization

The bohemian bookshelf: supporting serendipitous book discoveries through information visualization

Alice Thudt, Uta Hinrichs, Sheelagh Carpendale

Serendipity, a trigger of exciting yet unexpected discoveries, is an important but comparatively neglected factor in information seeking, research, and ideation. We suggest that serendipity can be facilitated through visualization. To explore this, we introduce the Bohemian Bookshelf, which aims to support serendipitous discoveries in the context of digital book collections. The Bohemian Bookshelf consists of five interlinked visualizations each offering a unique overview of the collection. It aims at encouraging serendipity by (1) offering multiple visual access points to the collection, (2) highlighting adjacencies between books, (3) providing flexible visual pathways for exploring the collection, (4) enticing curiosity through abstract, metaphorical, and visually distinct representations of books, and (5) enabling a playful approach to information exploration.

Find: The Google APIs Explorer has a new look

The Google APIs Explorer has a new look

Jake

Antonio

By Antonio Fuentes and Jake Moshenko,

Google Developer Team

Last March we introduced the Google APIs Explorer, an interactive tool that enables you to try out a Google API in minutes and explore its supported methods. When we launched it, the APIs Explorer supported over a half dozen APIs.

Starting today, the APIs Explorer has a brand new look to make it easier and more fun to navigate. We are also adding new features, including an indexed history of your API calls, a better editor for the body of a request, and a search box so you can search for APIs and methods easily.

Moreover, we have been busy adding support for more APIs to the Explorer. The Explorer now supports over two dozen Google APIs, and the list continues to grow! We have also added an indicator to show which methods require authenticated requests.

To get started, here are some sample requests you can try in the Explorer:

• Use the Google+ API to search for public profiles of people named "John Smith".

Use the Books API to search for a particular book.

Use the Google+ API to list your personal Google+ activiti...

Competition: viz of civic health data

Via our collaborator Carol Strohecker at CDI

http://www.civicdatachallenge.org/

Competition: IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge; Student Project Competition -- deadline November

Some of you may want to develop your projects toward this competition.
Benjamin Watson
Director, Design Graphics Lab | Associate Professor, Computer Science, NC State Univ.

919-513-0325 | designgraphics.ncsu.edu | @dgllab

IBM and IEEE are in search of creative team based student projects that can help students at any level learn about applying engineering, science and other disciplines to solve real world problems. It's a great opportunity to put your engineering skills to use…and earn cash prizes too!

The competition is open to college/university students from all geographic locations. Student teams should have three to five members in any year of university study. At least one team member must be an IEEE member. To find out more about this exciting opportunity, visit: http://www.ieee.org/go/smarter_planet_challenge or email smartplanetchallenge@ieee.org.

Job: [CS-Alumni] Rendering positions with Activision

More via David

Benjamin Watson
Director, Design Graphics Lab | Associate Professor, Computer Science, NC State Univ.

919-513-0325 | designgraphics.ncsu.edu | @dgllab

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David McAllister <davidm@cmonline.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Fwd: [CS-Alumni] Rendering positions with Activision

Begin forwarded message:

From: Aaron Fulkerson <aaronf@mindtouch.com>

Date: June 8, 2012 1:27:47 PM EDT

To: Andrew Zaferakis <andrew.zaferakis@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [CS-Alumni] Rendering positions with Activision

Thanks Andrew for reminding me of this resource. :-) 

Hi, I'm Aaron. I graduated in 2004 from UNC with my degree in CS and went on to start www.MindTouch.com. I'm also the CEO. We're hiring too! Our customers are companies like SAP, Citrix, Mozilla, Intuit, etc. We develop a product that's a kind of next generation help system for technology companies. Moreover, we're located in San Diego, minutes from the beach. 

We're looking for engineers with web development skills. 

Andrew, let's get a beer sometime. 

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Andrew Zaferakis <andrew.zaferakis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all!

I'm the Lead Engineer on a new game development project for Activision that is about to begin next month.  The studio is located in sunny San Diego, minutes from the beach.  The target is for next-generation consoles (new Xbox, PS4) and PC.  I'm looking to add more rendering positions given the new technology.  If you are interested or know anybody else please send them my way.

-Z

Andrew Zaferakis

Lead Engineer

High Moon Studios

Jobs: Graphics & infrastructure positions at Google in Chapel Hill

Seems they do the graphics in Android and Chrome. Via our former faculty member David McAllister.
Benjamin Watson
Director, Design Graphics Lab | Associate Professor, Computer Science, NC State Univ.

919-513-0325 | designgraphics.ncsu.edu | @dgllab

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David McAllister <davidm@cmonline.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Subject: Fwd: [CS-Alumni] Jobs: Graphics & infrastructure positions at Google

Begin forwarded message:

Date: June 8, 2012 9:55:34 AM EDT

Cc: Tom Hudson <tomhudson@google.com>

Subject: [CS-Alumni] Jobs: Graphics & infrastructure positions at Google

Since we're all posting positions: Google would really, really like to hire several more people to do low-level graphics work in our Chapel Hill office, or to help with build/performance/tools infrastructure to support the team here. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, OpenGL, DirectX all welcome. We're still looking for a good computational geometer and an assembly-language (SSE / Neon) hacker.

We may not be the "minutes from the beach" that Z can advertise, but we're minutes from your alma mater and the Southern Part of Heaven. Most of the pixels drawn by Chrome and Android are drawn by our code, which means your RGBs show up in front of a plurality of web & smartphone users in the world.

Tom

tomhudson@google.com