visualisation

So, why visualize algorithms? Why visualize anything? To leverage the human visual system to improve understanding. Or more simply, to use vision to think. (via Visualizing Algorithms )

(via Creative Commons traffic light | I spy with my little eye )

Responsivator View & share how sites look at different screen sizes Works with localhost too.

LinkedIn networks: webMethods AMS Solid Reason Inoveno bpost Lisbon tech scene Polo Aquático Personal (via LinkedIn Labs | InMaps – Hugo Ferreira’s professional network)

Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (by CUSEC ) Their principles Elizabeth Cady Stanton — “Women should vote” Larry Tesler — “No person should be trapped in a mode” Doug Engelbart — “Enable mankind to solve solve the world’s urgent problems” (a vision of “knowledge workers” using complex powerful information tools to harness our collective intelligence) Alan Kay — “Amplify human reach and bring new ways of thinking into a faltering civilisation that desperately need it”...

Creators need an immediate connection with what they’re making Bret Victor ’s guiding principle (via his talk Inventing on Principle )

Grace Hopper – Nanoseconds (via YouTube ) 1 ns = 11,8″ That is: 29,972 cm ~ A4 paper height

Ravi Parikh’s Website Wonderful visualisations made by Ravi Parikh.

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods , hosted by the impressive Swiss Visual Literacy project, is the most comprehensive visualization taxonomy I have seen. It divides visualisations into… Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, and Compound Visualizations. Each of these is then classified as a… process or structure visualization, … and further subdivided into whether they show… detail, overview, or detail and overview, … and whether they support...

Time Zones Never warp your brain with time zone math again. Great visualisation of timezone differences.