by Richard Hackathorn | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog
For the past month I have been heads-down experimenting with ways of “turning analytics inside out” within a virtual data world. The initial approach was to build a simple “Hello Data World” that illustrated 2D visualizations augmented with a third (but useful)...
by Richard Hackathorn | Nov 20, 2015 | Status
Three new blogs during Weeks 4 and 5: Wanted: Visually Impaired Data Scientist – Job ad spoof to make the point that interactive data visualization needs more sonification. Brief review of research. Could we mature this technology to have data vis tools without...
by Richard Hackathorn | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
I attended Prof. Edward Tufte (or ET for short) workshop on Presenting Data and Information in Denver on July 31, 2015. Since I attended his workshop decades before, my motivation was to observe what was “new and innovative” in data visualization. To my surprise, I was rewarded with the “old and enduring” in classic ET style.
by Richard Hackathorn | Nov 18, 2015 | ArchiveBlog, Blog
I was poking around in Nathan Yau’s FlowingData blogs and found a historical gem. On January 1, 2008, Nathan wrote a blog on John Tukey, the pioneer in exploratory statistics, highlighting his role in the early use of computers for data visualization! In 1972 using...
by Richard Hackathorn | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
Large global corporation seeks to augment their Data Science team with a visually impaired data scientist who has a proven record of sensing patterns in big data via audio and tactile analytics. The person will be responsible for developing a library of acoustic...
