is it just me

wondering what’s up in my world…

29.10.2012
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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PUSHPIN: Supporting Researchers’ Awareness of Publications and their Research Network

TweetLast week we presented the public alpha version of PUSHPIN to interested researchers at the University of Paderborn. As part of the seminar series “Computer Science and Education”, the developers and supervisors of PUSHPIN introduced the service to more than … Continue reading

17.09.2012
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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EC-TEL folks, we need your help in a visualization evaluation

TweetThis week the 7th EC-TEL conference takes place in Saarbrücken (Germany) and the crème de la crème of TEL researchers comes together to discuss their latest results and plan for the future (check #ectel2012 if you are interested in following … Continue reading

cube-node

08.12.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Time Series Visualization with Cube

Tweet Today I stumbled upon Cube, an Open Source system for visualizing time series data. The system is based on Node.js, MongoDB and D3.js. The developers of the “half-baked but still tasty” tool describe Cube as: an open-source system for … Continue reading

referenceme-1

07.11.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Reference.me aims at resetting professional networking

TweetLast week Peter Sloep invited me to his trusted network on Reference.me (here is the official announcement). I was thinking “Oh, no. Not another Social Network thing…” Addicted to all the web-stuff out there, I chose to give it a … Continue reading

nytimes-learninganalytics

05.10.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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(Very nice) Interactive visualization from NY Times

TweetToday George Siemens shared an interesting link in the Learning Analytics Google Group. He argues that interactive visualization can help increase end-user interest in data exploration If you have a look at what the designers at NY Times have created, … Continue reading

10.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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A heatmap of Twitter chatter

TweetToday I stumbled upon the OpenHeatMap project. You can upload a Excel spreadsheet or connect to a spreadsheet in Google Docs and visualize your data in a heat map. It’s simple as that. While the navigation through the map feels … Continue reading

09.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Looking for visual communication examples (kind of)

TweetI need your help again and I already posted a question on Twitter: I am looking for examples of visual communication but not in the sense of art pedagogy, visual metaphors or visual messages. I am searching for examples for … Continue reading

11.03.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Another PLE_BCN Twitter visualization

TweetWe are still exploring ways to best visualize topical relations between Tweets. This time we used Artefact-Actor-Networks and Gephi to build a zoomable graph of hashtag-connected tweets. We took all the 6800+ tweets that have been tagged with #ple_bcn from … Continue reading

20.09.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Visualizing the RecSysTEL workshop

TweetDuring last year’s EC-TEL conference in Nice, I asked myself how we could visualize a workshop and tried some easy method. A year later, we spent some more time on analyzing scientific paper with Artefact-Actor-Networks and are preparing a cool … Continue reading