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Cape Town, South Africa
Category: Visualizer
Unequal Scenes is a drone-based art project alerting people to radical divisions that inequality engenders around the world.
A project by Unequal Scenes
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Another slope map.
Red - staircases
Green - walking and bicycle paths
Gray - alleys and freeways. Freeways are often off grade, which renders the elevation profile invalid. Alleys are often ungraded.
Black - all other roads.
Note: though the map is generally true, there are lots of artifacts.
Thank you volunteers you did it AGAIN on 5/10/14! Despite an absolutely dismal weather prediction 85 volunteers showed up to remove a huge amount of trash from Bear Creek and Charlesmont Park! Together we filled a 40 yard dumpster to capacity including 12 shopping carts, 6 couches, 4 bicycles, 6 tires, 2 vacuum cleaners, 2 mattresses, 2 wooden chairs, one wing-back chair one box spring, one entertainment system, and electric Barbie Guitar and much more! Thank you volunteers you rock! We will try to post more photos shortly but if you took any photos at our cleanup today please send them to us – Thank you!
We would like to send a special “Thank You!” out to all the dedicated volunteers from the U.S. Navy, Bear Creek Recreation Council, and Towson University!
We would also like to Thank Papa John’s of Dundalk for Donating Pizza and Bill Bateman’s Perry Hall for donating wings! Thank you Walmart, Mars and Giant for donating Gift Cards that helped us pay for many of our supplies! Also thank you to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and American Rivers for supplies as well!
We also wish to thank historian and author of “Terror on the Chesapeake” Christopher George and the very talented artist Tom Spicer for coming out to the event. Mr. George explained the historical significance of Bear Creek and Charlesmont Park during the Battle of North point, War of 1812 and Mr. Spicer’s incredible paintings helps us all the visualize incredible scenes from this important historical event.
Thanks as well to Hannah Grice for acting as our photographer and taking most of these wonderful photos of the event!
Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, USA, Juliana Chan, Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, David Cook, Chief Clinical and Operating Officer, Jiahui Health, People’s Republic of China, Richard Nieman, Global Medical Officer; Senior Vice-President, Teva Pharmaceutical, USA and Mike Moradi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sensulin, USA; Young Global Leader capture during the Session: "Visualizing Disease" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Guangzhou Evergrande F.C is a football club in Guangzhou, China. It participates Chinese Super League. Recently, Guangzhou Evergrande F.C released renderings of Evergrande Real Madrid football school which has European
Architectural Style and seems like luxurious villas.
There are differences in the services we commonly lump together as Social Networking. A fuller description of this graphic is here: bit.ly/Kp1BFw
This is a slightly simplified version of the graphic I'm using in some presentations.
Kiva has quite a few API and SQL interfaces for grabbing data and visualizing it. Actually makes the whole process all the more interactive.
Visualization of the editing activity in the Wikipedia article on Abortion. To learn more about this project, check out www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/
Web player and Oculus Rift experience for real estate architectural development visualization and marketing by Arch Virtual
by: Jon Brouchoud
Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, USA capture during the Session: "Visualizing Disease" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Step 1: Customizable labels allow you to style your data points.
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"Animality: Can Humans Think Like Animals?" Display, Q&A
What happens when a chimp takes hold of temporality? This question drives the performance art work Santino’s Gift. The project began with Santino the chimpanzee who likes to throw rocks at visitors to the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden. What is strikingly uncommon about Santino is his forethought in collecting the rocks before visitors arrive. The preeminent philosopher Martin Heidegger uses forethought as the scaffolding for explaining human uniqueness in his work Being and Time. Visualizing a future allows humans to plan and build, to make objects function as equipment toward future ends, and to fashion technology.
In response to the chimp’s rupturing human preeminence, scientists studied and reported on the his ability while the zoo keepers castrated Santino as a mode of control over his behavior and future plans. Santino’s Gift is an art project designed to give Santino a present which he can make use of while in confinement and down on his luck. In Santino’s Gift Assistant Professor of English Ron Broglio spent part of an afternoon wrapping a copy of Being and Time and fitting it into a hand-crafted wooden box. The present along with an accompanying letter have been mailed to Santino care of the Furuvik Zoo. Broglio is awaiting a response and hopes Santino likes the work. vimeo.com/18804341
Photo of a Man on Sunset Drive: 1914, 2008
by: Richard Blanco
And so it began: the earth torn, split open
by a dirt road cutting through palmettos
and wild tamarind trees defending the land
against the sun. Beside the road, a shack
leaning into the wind, on the wooden porch,
crates of avocados and limes, white chickens
pecking at the floor boards, and a man
under the shadow of his straw hat, staring
into the camera in 1914. He doesn't know
within a lifetime the unclaimed land behind
him will be cleared of scrub and sawgrass,
the soil will be turned, made to give back
what the farmers wish, their lonely houses
will stand acres apart from one another,
jailed behind the boughs of their orchards.
He'll never buy sugar at the general store,
mail love letters at the post office, or take
a train at the depot of the town that will rise
out of hundred-million years of coral rock
on promises of paradise. He'll never ride
a Model-T puttering down the dirt road
that will be paved over, stretch farther and
farther west into the horizon, reaching for
the setting sun after which it will be named.
He can't even begin to imagine the shadows
of buildings rising taller than the palm trees,
the street lights glowing like counterfeit stars
dotting the sky above the road, the thousands
who will take the road everyday, who'll also
call this place home less than a hundred years
after the photograph of him hanging today
in City Hall as testament. He'll never meet
me, the engineer hired to transform the road
again, bring back tree shadows and birdsongs,
build another promise of another paradise
meant to last another forever. He'll never see
me, the poet standing before him, trying
to read his mind across time, wondering if
he was thinking what I'm today, both of us
looking down the road that will stretch on
for years after I too disappear into a photo.
From: www.connectedaction.net
Top most between Twitter users who recently tweeted the word AEJMC when queried on August 7, 2011, sorted by Betweenness Centrality -- which is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality
Top most between users:
@aejmc @jlab, @karenrussell, @terryflynn, @natcomm, @tmccorkindale, @derigansilver, @tkell, @aejmconlineads, and @jeremyhl
Graph Metric: Value
Graph Type: Directed
Vertices: 77
Unique Edges: 276
Edges With Duplicates: 150
Total Edges: 426
Self-Loops: 76
Connected Components: 11
Single-Vertex Connected Components: 10
Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 67
Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 415
Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 5
Average Geodesic Distance: 2.318737
Graph Density: 0.049213944
NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.174
More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/
NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
Marc Smith on Twitter.
Modeled in 3d max, rendered in vray, and finished in photoshop
Hope you enjoyed our rendering.
© All rights reserved. You may not use this photo in website, blog or any other media without my explicit permission.
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Ayyappan (also called Sastavu, Manikandan or Sasta) is a Hindu deity who is believed to be the son of Harihara, a rigvedic deity fused with both Shiva andVishnu. He is generally depicted in a yogic posture, wearing a jewel around his neck, hence named Manikandan, Literally meaning "With bell around the neck".
By the 20th century, there has been an increase in the number of worshipers of Ayyappan from many different groups, spurred by vast improvements in transport and communication in southern India.[2]
Ayyappan's annual festival is a time of pilgrimage for ever-growing numbers of men from throughout South India. The most prominent and famous Ayyappan shrine is the one at Sabarimala, in the hills of Pathanamthitta in Kerala, with over 30 million devotees visiting it every year,[3] making it one of the largestpilgrimage sites in the world. These devotees fast and engage in austerities under the leadership of a Periya Swami (one who has undertaken the pilgrimage to Sabarimala for 18 years) for weeks barefoot and then travel in groups to the shrine for a glimpse of Ayyappan. Bus tickets are hard to obtain for several weeks as masses of elated men, clad in distinctive ritual dhotis of saffron, black and light blue colors, throng public transportation during their trip to the shrine.[4]
The name "Sri Ayyappan" is used as a respectful form of address in Malayalam and Sanskrit. The equivalent of Sri is "Thiru" in Tamil. The mantra Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa is translated in English as, "Lord Ayyappa, I seek refuge in you".[5]
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1 Etymology
2 Legends surrounding Ayyappan
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3 In popular culture
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Etymology[edit]
Ayyappan is known as "Hariharasutan" because he is the son of Hari (Vishnu), the saviour and Hara (Shiva), the destroyer. His most common name is "Manikandan" because when the king Rajasekara Pandiyan of Pandalam found little Ayyappan in a forest there was a "mani" (bell, in Malayalam) tied around his "kanda" (neck, in Sanskrit).[6][7]
As Dharma Sastha, many of them consider him to be born out of the union between Mohini (an avatar of Vishnu) andShiva.[8]
Legends surrounding Ayyappan[edit]
An ancient idol of Shasta Dharma, a form of Ayyappan
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The asura Mahishi was burning up with anger at the trick the gods had pulled on her brother, the asura king Mahishasura. As Mahishasura was blessed with invulnerability to all men, the gods had sent goddess Durga, to fight and kill him. Thus, Mahishi began performing a fearsome set of austerities, and pleased the creator god Brahma. She asked for the boon of invulnerability, but Brahma said it was not possible so Mahishi planned and asked invulnerability to all men except by the son of Shiva and Vishnu (Both are male & no possibility to give birth to any one). He granted her the boon of ruling the universe and being invulnerable except by the son of Shiva and Vishnu. Since such a person did not exist, she thought she was safe and began conquering and plundering the world.
The gods implored Shiva and Vishnu to save them from this catastrophe. Vishnu found a possible solution to the problem. When Vishnu had taken on the KurmaAvatar, he also had to manifest himself as Mohini, the enchantress, to save the nectar of immortality (ambrosia or amrit) from the demons who were not willing to share it with the gods. If he became Mohini again, then the female Mohini and the male Shiva could have the divine child who would combine the powers of Durga as per Brahmand Purana and beat Mahishi. Skanda purana states that Durga took birth in masculine form as Dharamshasta.[9]
Some versions give a slightly more detailed version of the union of Shiva with Vishnu. One version tells that the asura Bhasmasura (Bhasma means 'Ashes') had so pleased Lord Shiva with his austerities that Shiva gave him a boon of anything he wished. So Bhasmasura asked for the ability to burn to ashes anything which he placed his hand over. No sooner had Shiva granted this, than Bhasmasura ran after the god, threatening to turn him to ashes.
Shiva called to Lord Vishnu for help. He hide himself in a peepal tree as Bhasmasura ran here and there searching for the god. Vishnu became aware of the events, and decided that he would take the female form Mohini, "the Enchanting", and try to trump the asura's powers. When Bhasmasura saw Vishnu in this form, he was bewitched by her beauty. He earnestly tried to court her. So Vishnu instructed Bhasmasura to hold his hand over his head, and vow fidelity. With this act, Bhasmasura was reduced to ashes.
Vishnu found Shiva and explained the whole affair to him. Shiva asked if he too could see Vishnu in this female form. When Vishnu appeared thus, Shiva was overcome with passion, and united with her. The two gods thus became "Harihara Murthi", that is a composite form of Shiva and Vishnu as one god.
From this union, Lord Sree Dharma Sastha was born. He combined in himself the powers of Vishnu and Shiva. Lord Ayyappan is an incarnation of Lord Sree Dharma Sastha and Lord Ayyappan is a visible embodiment of their essential identity. Sri Ayyappa belongs to Pandya Royal Community. He was the head of a clan. It is believed Sri Ayyappa merged to sri dharma sastha. Lord Vishnu gifted the new-born deity with a little bejeweled bell necklace, so this god is called Manikantha. He is also Known as Dharma Shastha.
There are many popular stories associated with Him among the devotees. The stories differ, but there are certain common elements:
Ayyappa lived in the Pandalam Palace as the son / savior of the King.
He had super-human or divine knowledge, wisdom, and courage and loved the King and his people.
He protected the King and the kingdom from the attacks of enemies.
At the end of His life in Pandalam, He vanished into the forests and is ever since worshiped at the Sabarimala temple.
The most popular and widely accepted story tells that Lord Ayyappa had His human sojourn as the son of the Raja of Pandalam. At that time, Raja Rajasekhara Pandiyan ruled the kingdom of Pandalam. During one of his hunting expeditions, the Raja was puzzled to hear the wails of a child on the banks of the river Pampa, and was surprised to find a resplendent infant there. The beautiful baby with radiant face wore a bead ('mani') around his neck. The King, though pious, charitable, just, and God-fearing, had no children. He accepted the child as God's gracious response to his fervent prayer for an heir to his throne. Manikandan grew into a boy well versed in academic lore and martial arts. Meanwhile the Rani gave birth to a son. The King regarded Manikandan as his elder son. He decided to crown him as the Yuvaraja. The King's corrupt Minister had a deep dislike for Manikandan, and made the innocent Queen believe that ill would befall her if Manikandan was crowned Yuvaraja and that the kingdom actually belonged to her son.
They conspired to get rid of Manikandan by hook or crook. They bribed the royal physician into becoming an accomplice of theirs. The Rani pretended to be afflicted with severe pain in the stomach, and the physician prescribed the milk of a tigress as the only cure. The King knew that none could be deputed for a mission that was so patently suicidal. However, the youthful and valiant Manikandan stepped forth and volunteered to fetch the milk. Despite the worried protestations of his foster-father, he set out for the fearful forests.
Days later, Manikandan entered the palace precincts riding a fierce tigress and followed by a pack of its cubs. The schemers were frightened into confessing their nefarious plot. They and others now knew that Manikandan was no ordinary being. They were convinced of His divine origins, and prayed to Him to be with them for their own salvation and for the safety of the kingdom. However, Manikandan was now determined to leave the place.
Filled with happiness, grief, fear, wonder and bhakti and self-surrender, the king prayed for the mercy and blessings of Manikandan. He repented he could not fully visualize the truth of the divine powers of the Lord and repeatedly requested Him to forgive him for behaving as if He were only his son. The Lord lovingly embraced the King who continued to pray: " Lord, kindly bless me by freeing me from my egos and the worldly life of birth and rebirth and grant me ' moksha’ (salvation). Kindly continue to be the saviour of my family and stay eternally in my kingdom.” Manikandan then enlightened the King on the path of attainment of 'moksha'. These words of the Lord are contained in ‘Bhuthanathageetha'. To the King who is by now mentally cleansed and completely immersed in 'bhakthi', Lord Ayyappa said: "I am to free you from all worldly sorrows & worries and to grant you 'moksha'. All those who are and would be born in your family shall have my blessings unfailingly. I am always accessible to 'bhakthi' and only 'bhakthi." The Lord told the King that he could construct a temple at Sabarimala, north of the holy river Pampa and install His deity there. Ayyappa also explained how the Sabarimala pilgrimage shall be undertaken, emphasizing the importance of 'vrutham' and what the devotees can attain by His 'darshan'.
The Lord further consoled the King saying that the devotees who held him and his descendants in 'bhakthi' shall happen to be devoted to Him as well. Manikandan then blessed the King and all others assembled there, and vanished. The King duly constructed the temple at Sabarimala, dedicated to Him.
There are various tales connected with Lord Ayyappa: the discovery of the child at Pampa, Manikandan's youthful days in the Pandalam palace, bestowing the power of hearing and speaking upon the deaf and dumb son of His teacher as Guru-dakshina, His friendship with Vavar, bringing the tigress's milk, accomplishing His divinely destined mission of annihilation of the demoness Mahishi, eliminating the forest-thug Udayanan, bestowing moksha on Sabari, blessing His foster-father with moksha and so on. Legend also goes to say that Manikandan was the incarnation of Lord Dharma Sastha. Raja Rajasekhara was in his previous birth a rich and pious 'Brahmin ' by name Vijayan who was a very strong believer and devotee of Lord Dharma Sastha.
Another tale goes like this: Lord Ayyappan as Manikandan born to Pandala Maharaja is set to conquer the King Udayan who is a strong Buddhist and has been harassing the people of Pamba region. Maharaja sends Manikandan to learn martial artsKalari to Cheerappanchira, the Muhamma of today in Alappuzha district. The panicker there trains him of Kalari. It is here where the Guru's daughter Nila falls in love with Lord Ayyappa (Manikandan) but He refuses to marry telling he is a Bhrammachari and has a mission. She offers a sweet made out in a function in their family which Lord likes. This sweet payasam was what turned out to be the Aravanapayasam today.
The 2012 album of P. Unnikrishnan on Lord Ayyappan in Tamil called SABARIMALAI VA CHARANAM SOLLI VA has a song on the Ayyappan temple at Mukkal vettom (Cheerappanchira) where the current priest, of the vamsam of Lord's Guru who trained him Kalari, still performs the poojas for the Lord who poses with the war attire.
A Holy Song that is used to wake up Ayyappan in Sabarimala temple is known as Ayyappa Suprabhatham, an another song which for making ayyappa sleep is the famous song Harivarasanam.
transitability heatmap of north seattle - red dots have a smaller shed, larger blue, largest violet. Gasworks park and Madrona Park are both terrible. Tangletown is mediocre. Best is, surprisingly, some point in the UW. The map is only applicable to a certain point in time. This map is mind-blowingly computationally expensive, involving the creation and subsequent analysis of a transit shed for every point.
Juliana Chan, Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR capture during the Session: "Visualizing Disease" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Kiss, Kick Boxer, Kalashnikov, Kikiriki - images sent to my project www.flickr.com/groups/abc-visualized - 1. el bes, 2. IMG_1584, 3. Suri, 4. Kikirikiii!
This is the call stack from top to bottom when an individual Drupal node is loaded -- focuses only on the views_playlist.module functions that are called. The debug_print_backtrace(); php command was placed at the beginning of each function, and then a node was loaded.
I then did a view source, and then did some text replacements to get rid of extra line breaks, and place two line breaks at the beginning on a new stack trace (i.e. with each instance of #0).
These are the text replacements I did in Microsoft Word
REPLACE ^p# WITH TEMPTEXTFLAG#
REPLACE ^p WITH ""
REPLACE TEMPTEXTFLAG# WITH ^p#
REPLACE ^p#0 WITH ^p^p#0
REPLACE "called at " with ^t
I could then import the data into MicroSoft Excel.
I then
A1 = 1 and in A2 =
=IF(E2="",A1+1,A1)
B1 = 0 and B2 =
=IF(E2="",-1,B1+1)
That gave columns that looked like
1 0
1 1
1 2
1 3
1 3
I copied column A & B and then did a paste by value via "Paste Special..." I selected columns A through D, and sorted first by Column A (ascending), and then Column B (descending) This showed the chronological order in which the functions were called.
I then copied the cell values from the excel spread sheet into omnigraffle pro where the were treated as a single object. I had to paste multiple sections and group them together so that I could copy it, and then paste it into Preview. Once it was in preview, then I could export it as a PNG and then upload it here.
I'm a geek.
Visualization of Flickr geotagged photos, uploaded between 2007 to 2015 and geotagged with the highest accuracy (street-level). I generated a number of different visualizations. Some are more artistic in style while others are designed more informative.
This type of visualization has been done years before (check out Eric Fischer's maps). Maybe the statistics going on on the lower-right corner provide some additional information not available so far.
Created as part of my research project (maps.alexanderdunkel.com).
Mariette DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American, USA, Hiroe Miyake, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan, Ayumi Arai, Project Researcher, Centre for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan and Ryosuke Shibasaki, Professor, Centre for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan capture during the Session "Big Data Visualization: A New Era in Mapping with the University of Tokyo" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Kiva has quite a few API and SQL interfaces for grabbing data and visualizing it. Actually makes the whole process all the more interactive.
Edited Dawn image and visualization of Ceres with a visualization showing information on the internal structure as a gravity map.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22083
Original caption: This animation shows Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from its high-altitude mapping orbit at 913 miles (1,470 kilometers) above the surface. The colorful map overlaid at right shows variations in Ceres' gravity field measured by Dawn, and gives scientists hints about the dwarf planet's internal structure. Red colors indicate more positive values, corresponding to a stronger gravitational pull than expected, compared to scientists' pre-Dawn model of Ceres' internal structure; blue colors indicate more negative values, corresponding to a weaker gravitational pull.
An annotated version of the animation, showing a scale of the difference between predicted and observed gravity, is also available. (This version also has a higher frame rate, for a smoother animation.)
The animation was created by projecting a map of Ceres onto a rotating sphere. The image scale is about 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.
Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.
For a complete list of Dawn mission participants, visit dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.
For more information about the Dawn mission, visit dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Image Addition Date:
2017-10-26
Illustrative Visualization of a german climate change adaption research network – using processing and a metaball force field fpr moving agents
Visualization has the power to reaveal things that are hidden and generate new insights.
Theyrule is a perfect example. It allows you to visually map the kieretsu-like relationships between board members of major publicly-traded companies.
I used theyrule to make the map above, which shows how the boards of Microsoft and Xerox are connected via General Electric.
The data was collected from company websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.
Everybody got the demon in here, okay? The demon lives in here. It feeds on your hate -- it cuts, kills, rapes -- it uses your weak- ness, your fear... A little, uh, madness goin' on. I don't know. Death just -- death kinda becomes what you are. After a while, you begin to like it...
("Natural born killers" - Mickey Knox)