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- Crowdsourcing interpretation with Prism, a new software from the Scholar’s Lab
Prism is a new online tool by the Scholars’ Lab at the university of Virginia. In a nutshell, Prism lets users independently highlight and annotate passages from a text, for then mashing up all of these highlights into a new version of the text where the ‘importance’ of certain passages is rendered graphically via colours […]
- Using Impromptu to visualize RSS feeds
Some time ago I’ve been experimenting with the processing and display of RSS feeds within Impromptu, and as a result I built a small app that retrieves the news feed from The Guardian online and displays on a canvas. I’ve had a bit of free time these days, so last night I thought it was […]
- Mapping stereotypes
Sometimes a picture is more eloquent than a thousand words. Well, a map can be too, and the maps by Yanko Tsvetkov proved the point for me. Mapping stereotypes is a project in which he plots on a european map the way we (as British, French, Italians etc…) see the ‘others’. The funny bit is […]
- Graphics over code in Impromptu
Andrew Sorensen posted some code in the Impromptu mailing list showing how to add graphics (and various other things) on top of a code ‘image’. As usual I regret not having a whole free day to play with this, but just by messing around a bit with some parameters it’s easy to achieve some interesting […]
- Visualizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Shameless self-plug: some time ago I made an alternative visualization of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. No special reason, just because I wanted to do some experimentation with a text I was already working on. Well today I sort of run into it by change, and I really liked it! Isn’t that a good feeling when you […]
- UML to django
Neat little project that will speed up your data modeling using django: think up an application model, formalize it by drawing a UML diagram using the freely available ArgoUML, and have it tranlsated into django models automatically. Just use uml-to-django and et-voila’: the application is ready in django!
- Django admin and MPTT #2
This is a follow up to the previous post on managing and visualizing trees using django. I’ve been using MPTT quite a bit now and it’s great – also, I looked deeper into the admin integration (basically, the issue of being able of manage trees from within the admin). The major issue I had with […]
- Visualizing Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
- The IBM glass engine
The IBM Glass Engine enables deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and impulses guide the listener through an expanding selection of over sixty Glass works. Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century […]
- DB visualize : The Universal Database Tool
I’ve been searching for something similar for along time. Just hook up a database, and et voila you can see it, modify and export it with a clean and fast interface. Among the many (really a lot) features you have: Database Browser: Tree based navigation through all database objects. Browse object details and invoke management […]