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My presentation from 360|Flex – Getting the most out of Axiis 10 Mar 2010 | 03:12 pm
On Wednesday I presented “Getting the most out of Axiis” at 360|Flex. I made some pretty significant changes to the slides between when the thumb drives were prepared and the actual presentation. The ...
I’m speaking at 360|Flex! 4 Feb 2010 | 04:48 pm
I’m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at 360|Flex next month alongside some of the best talent in the Flex community. I’ll be filling the time slot that originally belonged to Tom Gonzalez w...
Axiis Tech Demo: Visualizing Historic Browser Statistics 1 Nov 2009 | 07:52 am
For the beta release of Axiis I prepared a visualization showing the historical browser breakdown of visitors to W3schools.com. I wouldn’t consider it a useful data visualization by any stretch of th...
CFUnited Demo – Axiis Treemaps 16 Aug 2009 | 12:57 pm
Yesterday Tom Gonzalez and I gave a presentation on Axiis at CFUnited. After Tom reviewed the concepts behind the framework, I demonstrated how to build a custom visualization. The resulting applicati...
Axiis Video Tutorial 24 Jun 2009 | 10:22 pm
An experimental alpha release of Axiis has been available since 360|Flex Indy. I put together this screencast to help people get up and running with the framework. We’ve gotten some feedback from a ...
Axiis – A different kind of data visualization framework 10 Apr 2009 | 04:25 pm
Last week Tom Gonzalez wrote a blog post announcing Axiis, the open-source data visualization framework we’ve been developing. Tom goes into a good deal of depth about how the system works, so I won’t...
Hit detection on graphics primitives: Speeding up the Parallel Coordinates Plot 20 Feb 2009 | 12:22 pm
In my last post I mentioned that I had rewritten the Parallel Coordinates Plot to achieve a pretty drastic speed up. Before I get into the graphics hit detection trick at the heart of the performance ...
Collaborating with BirdEye 14 Feb 2009 | 08:39 am
BirdEye is a project that aims to be a comprehensive collection of visualization components, and I was recently asked to join the team. I’ve added my components into the appropriate sub-projects; The...
What I’m doing with my final semester 4 Feb 2009 | 11:21 am
I’ll be receiving my MS degree in Computer Science at the end of this semester. I finished my degree requirements last semester, but my timing on some of those requirements was a little funny, so I w...
Visualizing the 2008 NFL Season 21 Jan 2009 | 08:45 pm
Super Bowl XLIII is less than two weeks away, so it feels like an appropriate time to look back at the statistics that were so diligently recorded during this past football season. I’ve put together ...
