[FRIAM] Rich site related to data visualization

2007-01-01 Thread J T Johnson
To the FRIAM gang, snowbound and otherwise For those of us interested in data visualization, I just chanced upon this fine site. Check out: http://eagereyes.org/ -tj -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyti

[FRIAM] more on searchable math and functional programming

2007-01-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hi, I ran across this paper today, and while on the face of it it might seem perverse, what it achieves may be relevant. With these approaches, functional programming is possible and concise using XSLT, and as MathML is a XML dialect, there's the possibility of doing search and presentation (an

[FRIAM] Happy New Year

2007-01-01 Thread Douglas Roberts
All, Here are a few pictures of the Los Alamos Hill Stompers (one of the bands I play with) New Year's party gig last night. The peacock pictures came about from rescuing a hen who is stranded on our property because the snow is too deep for her to walk all the way back across the field to her h

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > So figuring out a good way to manage using different languages > together, synergistically, is pretty important. > A datapoint: Swarm interfaces are declared using an extended version of Objective C protocols. These interfaces are parsed into Lisp data structures an

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
> I'd like to see simple naive Bayesian classifiers in Ruby .. One issue Redfish deals with quite a bit is use of different languages within projects. We'd like Python to talk to Processing (Java) and Processing to talk to Blender. JDK 1.6 took a tiny step: defining a way for Java to talk t

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > But the bigger picture of my wish is precisely that: we need to build > a far broader set of easily integrated tools for ABM. Far more > important is the synergy amongst them than their ease of use. > My experience with Swarm was that it was not easy to do in an incr

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Giles Bowkett
> 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? > 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? I'd like to see simple naive Bayesian classifiers in Ruby for blocking blog spam. I was going to do something like this but got distracted. Rails is only getting big

[FRIAM] Faces of the Dead in Iraq - New York Times

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
The NYT have done a fairly impressive web2.0 visualization of the US casualties in Iraq. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB1.html Grim but real. My only concern is that the rectangular layout may hide somewhat just how many have died. Possibly an additional list would

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
> It's all fine and good to try to lower the cost of entry to ABM, > but to > get science done ABMers need a way to say something precise and > have it > understood by theorists. Pretty visual programming systems, GIS, > etc. > don't necessarily accomplish that. I totally agree, and indeed