BLOG.MICHAELGAIO » Visualization http://blog.michaelgaio.com Evolutionary Experience Design : Philosophy, Cosmology, Technology, and Consciousness Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:00:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New City : the Future of On-Line Social Networking http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2010/03/29/new-city-the-future-of-on-line-social-networking/ http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2010/03/29/new-city-the-future-of-on-line-social-networking/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:41:53 +0000 Michael Gaio http://blog.michaelgaio.com/?p=433 Greg Lynn explains the concept behind New City, a new virtual world.  The architectural topology of such a world “map” is based on transmorphic manifolds, and context relative perceptive “lenses”:

]]> http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2010/03/29/new-city-the-future-of-on-line-social-networking/feed/ 1 Curriculum Vitae Word Cloud http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2009/02/06/curriculum-vitae-word-cloud/ http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2009/02/06/curriculum-vitae-word-cloud/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:02:55 +0000 Michael Gaio http://blog.michaelgaio.com/?p=285 After I recently made some major updates to my Curriculum Vitae (latin, “course of life”), I went on over to Wordle.net and made a graphic word cloud from all thirteen pages of the document’s content.  In the visualization, bigger words represent more frequency of that word in the overall document.  Color and position are randomized.  Here is one of the custom results:

Curriculum Vitae Word Cloud (2009)

Curriculum Vitae Word Cloud (2009)

]]> http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2009/02/06/curriculum-vitae-word-cloud/feed/ 2 Informing the Book of the Collective Face http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2008/12/03/informing-the-book-of-the-collective-face/ http://blog.michaelgaio.com/2008/12/03/informing-the-book-of-the-collective-face/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:40:30 +0000 Michael Gaio http://blog.michaelgaio.com/?p=225 FaceBook.com has become the most-trafficked social network in the world–surpassing MySpace in unique users, competing with Google search for total page views, and recently surpassed 100,000,000 simultaneous users.  Accordingly, we can consider FaceBook the core representation of the dynamic social web, and a significant arena for in-formulating (bringing “form” into) the collective body and mind.  Here are a few interesting elements comprising this collective form:

 

Palantir

Some crafty engineers over at FaceBook recently created the Palantir open-source computer application (named after one of the powerful “seeing stone” orbs in Lord of the Rings) that visualizes live activity on the FaceBook social network. See a video of the application here.

 

 

Lexicon

The FaceBook Lexicon is an application that presents key word usage on member’s post pages, with all types of options for comparative demographics. Below is a sample image from Lexicon that shows the number of keyword posts for “Obama” from June 6 – Nov 31, 2008.  Accordingly, the “Obama” posts peak around election day.  Although males show a slight majority of keyword “Obama” posts in this graph, I had also done a different comparative graph that shows females posting “Obama” nearly twice as much as males around election day.


 

 

People Power

Here is a report on FaceBook’s greatest energy source: people power.  Literally speaking, the amount of energy people use burning calories while interacting with the social network (more than 2 billion minutes per day) exceeds the amount of electricity used to power the computer server network.

 

All together and more, these advents of information technology are literally beginning to bring increasing definition and expression to the multitudinous aspects involving the living, breathing, thinking, seeing body, mind, and spirit of the global collective.

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