by Richard Hackathorn | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog, Status
Brief announcement was given about forming a local IA working group at Analyze Boulder meetup on November 4. The intent is to find Boulder-ites with the interest and skills to build data worlds with THREE.js and Unity3D. See what happens… One new blog this week:...
by Richard Hackathorn | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog, Event
The National Institute of Informatics of Japan is hosting the NII Shonan Meeting Immersive Analytics: A New Multidisciplinary Initiative to Explore Future Interaction Technologies for Data Analytics on February 15-18, 2016 at Shonan Village Center in Japan. Organizers...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Status
It has been two weeks since First Light on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:00am MT. The Google crawler appeared 63 minutes later and completed a full site scan in 18 minutes, all quietly. We have thus planted a stake in cyber-ground, but CNN has not yet scheduled an interview...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
To explain virtual data worlds, a simple and common analogy has been elusive. I have cited the following: a walk through the forest, tour of an art museum, playing at Disneyland, wandering around a science museum, and visit to a chemistry laboratory. But, none seem to...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog
We have argued that collaboration in a virtual data world is a distinctive, a unique benefit that could integrate hundreds of data analyses to be shared by hundreds of persons. However, how does this happen? My area of business intelligence (BI) has seen collaboration...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
With a nudge from Data Elixir by my colleague Lon Riesberg, I read the Reddit Ask-Me-Anything marathon by Tamara Munzner, a respected professor, researcher and author in data visualization. She was asked whether virtual reality (VR) is a valuable tool for education...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog
The challenge of defining, explaining and evaluating immersion in the context of data worlds is tough. However, a simple example may lend insights. My wife Linda showed me a video of two kittens chasing a mouse, virtually on an iPad. Skip the ad and watch the first 60...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog
Todd Margolis and I leave this Saturday for Anaheim to present at the Teradata Partners Conference (Sunday Oct 18 at 2:00-2:45pm in 207A/B #3452). The topic is Immersive Analytics: Collaborative Analytics using Virtual Reality with the abstract: Immersive Analytics...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Event
We are starting a series of GoToMeeting chats discussing issues and directions with Immersive Analytics. Limit of 8 persons, so that everyone gets to ask questions and discuss. We will try two chats per week, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 4:00pm ET for...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
The term “first light” is used from astronomy to denote the first observation from a new telescope. Hence, behold the first pixels from a new website. There is another meaning for this term – the dawn of a new day. Will this website be the dawn of a...
