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Engineers Struggle to Move Mobile Video Without Ruining It

Intel, Cisco and Verizon are pouring $3.3 million into research at five prominent universities to improve video delivery over wireless networks. The first goal of the Video Aware Wireless Networks (VAWN) program? Find a good way to measure mobile video quality.

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History

Mapping the Republic of Letters

All throughout human history technical breakthroughs have altered the topography of human thought. Or, rather, human thought has had a freer expression when it creates a more efficient vehicle for its own transmission. The 18th century, more than many, may remind us of our own time. That period was the culmination of what had become known as the…

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Music

Data You Can Dance To

The travel geeks at Thomson have created a data visualization you can dance to. They tracked the top-level dance genres over the past century, and expressed the data as an animated map that moves from parent genre to descendant, proliferating over time. The mapmakers used data from the books Bass Culture, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life and The…

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Features

Geeky Goodness At MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may be the birthplace of the American geek. Within MIT, its Media Lab drills down to the heart of the next wave of technology from creating buildings with 3D printing to prosthetic limbs to gesture-based user interfaces. For instance, the MIT Media Lab was where the idea for the technology seen in the…

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Visualization

Visualization Shows Where in the World Wikipedia Is Edited

Wikipedia is one of the most popular and highly-trafficked websites in the world, with over 3.6 million content pages. While much of the discussion around Wikipedia involves those using the site for research, it's always worth noting - and praising - the tens of thousands of volunteers who actively contribute and edit the content. In fact…

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International

Visualizing the Influence of Egyptian Bloggers

Kovas Boguta, the head of analytics at Weebly and a guest author on ReadWriteWeb, has created another powerful data visualization, this time of the "the pro-democracy movement in Egypt and across the Middle East." The visualization drew from Twitter use by Egyptians and influential others around the #jan25 uprising. Those writing in Arabic only…

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Visualization

LinkedIn Plots Your Network with InMaps

LinkedIn, the career-minded social network, unveiled a new feature today that helps users to visualize and interact with their professional network. Called "InMaps", the feature provides an interactive visual representation of your professional network, helping you to see who you are connected to and how they are connected with each other. Are you…

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Music

Rock 'Til You Plot with Last.fm

Joachim Van Herwegen, an intern at the online music company Last.fm, has plotted his company's music information against user gender and age data. These "Gender Plots" also incorporate music information from Last.fm, as well as user profile information. What results is a freaky series of visual statements that are as noteworthy for their as if…

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Visualization

Another Chinese Palace Goes Virtual

If you've gotten your fill of the Forbidden City online, move ahead a little in conceived time and a few miles in virtual space and visit Beijing's Yuangmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace. Digital Yuanmingyuan is a collaboration between the Summer Palace's staff and researchers at the adjacent Tsinghua university. Unlike the Forbidden City, the…

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Government

Visualizing the Wikileaks Data

A group of hackademics took the Wikileaks activity data from the Afghanistan war and mapped it, creating a video visualization of the events. The 91,000 documents track events including friendly fire and civilian injuries and death over the course of the last six years. According to Mike Dewar, a post-doc student at Columbia University's School…

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Engineers Struggle to Move Mobile Video Without Ruining It

Mapping the Republic of Letters

Data You Can Dance To

Geeky Goodness At MIT

Visualization Shows Where in the World Wikipedia Is Edited

Visualizing the Influence of Egyptian Bloggers

LinkedIn Plots Your Network with InMaps

Rock 'Til You Plot with Last.fm

Another Chinese Palace Goes Virtual

Visualizing the Wikileaks Data