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In this visualization, photographs were taking of different cross-sections of everyday objects (eg. horned melon, baseball hairdryer), and then the photographs were montaged together into a video. The idea of examining cross sections of objects isn’t very inventive, however looking at these non-tissue sample/non-biology related objects makes for an interesting twist, especially since this data isn’t something that many people have probably examined in this light. I would like this to be a more interactive collection of images that I could click through; the video was good to advertise for this technology, but people who are actually interested in the cross sections can’t process everything that fast.

This site, collaged Instagram photos into a map of the world, based on the location associated with the photo. Zooming in to different regions of map or searching for a specific location allows people to get the most out of the data, and personalize it for themselves. This piece is interesting because Instagram is a product mainly used by people who are thinking only about what is going on in their own lives and catalogue that, however when collaging all of the photos together, the images can be reused for this whole other purpose of deriving location based trends across many users. In a future iteration it’d be interesting to utilize a magnifying glass type feature, because as the user zooms into the screen the images change and move around, and context is also lost, but that is the only way to truly see some of the smaller photos.

This visualization shows the origin, lifepspans of internet browsers and internet technology over time. There are also screenshots associated with each of the browsers from various years as well as Wikipedia links to different technologies. I really like this piece because it quickly conveys meaning (origin of a browser/technology) and yet layers more meaning in the piece for those that are interested. I would say,that one thing that initially confused me was the colored lines in the background, I thought there was some significance between the colors and the technologies, only later realizing that it was like that for decorative reasons.