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Photographing trains for those of us that do is something in and of itself. Some use their spin to create art, some use it to portray drama, and others just want to be able to read the numberboards. But only when the final shutter click ends and the camera is lowered are you actually experiencing it for your own eyes. And at that point you get to watch your subject matter do what you came to document in the first place, etching your memory forever.
Today while I was pacing these two brutes I had a rush of memories come back to me as if I was living them again. The sight of two SD45's and their flared radiators back to back was something I hadn't experienced in quite some time. Seemingly forever ago I would watch the WC's own 45's go about their transfer work at New Brighton and beyond via bicycle. To document the times I usually had my Pentax K1000.
Fast forward a decade and the bicycle is gone, the Pentax is long retired, and most of my childhood memories can only be revisited by amateur photography and old emails, as only five former WC SD45's remain. Nowadays the railroad landscape resembles little of it's former self, I drive a Dodge Ram, and I don't have much time for photography due to my schedule (or lack of one) at BNSF. So whilst running and gunning with these guys on their trek East, I reminded myself to breath it in just a bit more than usual. To just watch these relics as they drift from side to side, bouncing ever so slightly as they roll across former Great Northern terrain, because in another ten years I'll wish I could watch them just one more time.
"These are the good old days, man."
An ecosystem is a complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities, while the non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. Ecosystems are characterized by strong interactions between the components within their boundaries, which become weaker if outside of them. They are well recognized as critical and necessary in sustaining human well-being.
Over the past 50 years, humans have converted and modified natural ecosystem more rapidly and over larger areas than in any comparable period of human history. These changes have been driven by the rapidly growing demands for Supporting, Provisioning, Regulating and Cultural services and have contributed to substantial net gains in human well-being and economic development, while resulting in a substantial and largerly irreversible loss of biodiversity and degradation in ecosystems and their goods and services.
Evidence from different parts of the world shows that in most case it is far from clear who is “in charge” of the long-term sustainability of an ecosystem, let alone of the situation under future climates. Responding and adepting to the impacts of climate change on ecosystems calleds for a clear and a structured system of decision making at all levels. Impacts of climate changes of ecosystems also shows strong interrelationships with ecosystem processes and human activities at various scales over time. Datas reported in this visual project are obtained from the 2007 IPCC Report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) whom considerations and data are mainly based on 2 scenarios: DGVM Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (based on A2 emission scenarious) and GCMs Global Climate Models (based on B1 emission scenarious).
Project by:
Matilde Arduini
Rossella Ermacora
Giulio Fagiolini
Emanuele Marsura
Giulia Minacciolo
Polar regions have suffered dramatically the consequences of global warming: ice melting, rising temperatures and the consequent transformation of flora and fauna are just few of the deep changes that marked these regions in an irreversible manner and will influence future human life and activities.
Our visualization aims to highlight the main factors that have brought these changes. The graph on the top shows the relationships data between temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and sea-ice in the last century. We have then developed two different future trends, based on the A2 and B2 IPCC Emission Scenarios.
Below, the polar regions system map, designed as the structure of an ice crystal, shows the complex tangle of relationships and flows that connects key actors, highlighting the importance of each element for the balance of the whole system.
Ice is in the centre of the visualization, as it’s the core of the entire polar environment and influences all other characters, while on the top we have greenhouse gases, which are the primary responsible of increasing temperature, and so of climatic mutation in Arctic and Antarctic.
The analysis shows crearly how polar regions heavily suffer a phenomenon to which they contribute minimally, but provoking chilling consequences which involve the whole world.
Project by:
Stefano Agabio
Marco Bernardi
Paolo Panzuti Bisanti
Alessandro Pomè
Francesco Pontiroli
Mark Newman's rendering of the 2008 presidential election. Counties are sized based on population and colored based on how they voted.
My facebook network as of September 2012 rendered with Gephi using the Fruchterman-Reingold layout algorithm.
The graph above is a timeline of website user registrations ordered by date beginning with Etsy's birth day, June 17, 2005.
Generated roughly at midnight EST October 2, 2007, a total of 79,713 avatars are represented. Only those users with avatar images are shown. Roughly 10% of our registered accounts have avatar images uploaded. Most registrations are for buyers making a first time purchase.
Even at full resolution, the avatars are reduced to just 4x4 pixels each to keep overall size sane. 16 pixels is just enough to make out most avatars (if you know what you're looking for).
The four day empty slot in November 2006 was when we transitioned the site to a new architecture, then named 'v2'.
Please see original resolution.
Every bus vehicle arrival at every stop in the Portland area transit system over from 4AM to 12-midnight on a weekday.
Tangible Engine is a new visualizer, configurator, and software development kit that allows developers to easily connect real-world objects to applications running on Ideum multitouch tables. Tangible Engine also comes with a starter kit of object markers and instructions for 3D printing them. Tangible Engine works with Ideum multitouch tables that use 3M touch technology, including the 55" and 65" Platform and Pro.
To learn more please visit the website.
Argonne scientists are working on more efficient techniques to allow computer visualizations of extremely complex phenomena, like this rendering of a supernova.
This astrophysics simulation seeks to discover the mechanism behind core-collapse supernovae, or the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova, different colors and transparencies assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.
Image courtesy Hongfeng Yu at University of California-Davis. The dataset used was provided by scientists John Blondin at North Carolina State University and Tony Mezzacappa from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
CGI exterior visualization: good fairy by day and wicked witch by night??? Perhaps it is just Photoshop ;)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides the freshwater availability scenarios for Europe in 2050s. As consequences of climate change, states will face variations of water availability: some of them will contend with decreasing of runoff and increasing of drought frequency, others with the opposite situation. Governments have to realize the oncoming changing and develop their water management in order to satisfy their future internal demand.
Today just few countries invest substantial money in infrastructures and understand the necessity to get ready for the next condition; the most of them has just adequate water management that will be hardly succede try out.
The visualization below has two goals. The first one is to illustrate the consequences of climate change in the water availability of each European countries. The second one is to compare the “antrophic cycle” of water in two countries with very different water managements: UK and Romania. The balance between water availability and water demand needs funds to promote infrastructures and knowledge. By this representation is possible to realize which are the actors involved and their roles, how they are connected and how climate change will worsen the gap.
Project by:
Silvia Acerbi
Paola Berardelli
Lorenzo Berte'
Samantha Pietrovito
Irene Zocco
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Cartagrophy as storytelling
We are preparing a seminar in Estonian Art Academy about info visualization and this is one sample of the infographics material we are going to use there.
"Vulnerability" is the word that best describes small islands' situation. These territories, placed close to the equator, in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean, are subjected to extreme natural events, such as cyclones and floodings. These natural catastrophes weaken the territory and affect both population and economy causing, on the one hand, the inability to find a stable position in the marketplace and preventing from reaching, on the other hand, the benefit needed to face such catastrophes.
Global temperature rising strongly contributes to get the situation worse: IPCC's datas show how in the last decades extreme events have increased in number and intensity in conjunction with temperature rise. Even if they're not directly responsible of climate change, small islands are those who most feel these events and they are now experiencing what the rest of the world could be forced to face in one hundred years.
Nowadays, among dissenting opinions, the solutions found are very few, not entirely effective and, most of all, hardly feasible.
Project by:
Marco Agosta
Elisa Angelico
Michele Crivellaro
Federica D’urzo
Elisa Mariangela Raciti
This infographic refers to the 2007 IPCC report about the global warming, with particular focus on food, fibre and forest production.
The data analysis highlights a huge impact on the soil capacity according to the forecast about a rise of the temperature in the next decades.
Despite the positive effect on the crop production in the short term, in 2080 the scenario expected is alarming.
The topside of this visualization shows how the temperature would affect the cereals production (maize, rice and wheat) and how this could directly influence the global percentage of the people at risk of hunger.
The growth of the population and the simultaneous decrease in crop production do not allow the balance between supply and demand: between 2050 and 2080 this gap could cause negative social-economic effects.
The second part visualizes the relations between Humanity and the other actors of the system. Main relations link Humanity with Livestock, Agriculture and Forestry (medium level), which are themselves connected with Soil and Atmosphere. This second level of the system is where the effect of the Global Warming are firstly received. Than, by the connection with the medium level, these effects would fall on Humanity.
The title of the poster encloses the whole meaning: global warming has effects on cereals and their absence causes the death of Humanity. Humanity is also the first cause of the temperature increase, so it is like a sort of self destruction.
The only way to stop this vicious circle is by changing the human behaviors. Humanity can't act directly on Soil and Atmosphere, but can try to do concrete actions against the Global Warming in order to save cereals and also itself.
Project by:
Lara Caputo
Eleonora Cattaneo
Andrea Larghi
Enrico Luparello
Anna Menegolli
We interrupt this series of Alaskan images to bring you an important public service announcement ... TGIF!!!
OK, I know I have lots of you feeling the same way. Getting all ready to finish off this work week and dive on in to the upcoming weekend!
Last night, I was going through my archive when I noticed something. Over late spring/early summer, I spent many hours photographing and hanging out with the burrowing owls of Broward County. However, I hadn't shared many of the images of these adorable little owls. Solution ... celebrate this Friday with one of my favorite ones.
As the young burrowing owls learn the ways of their world, they tend to do a lot of flying around. The burrows are staked out, so that's the perfect landing for them. It's also obviously where they launch from as well.
I love this image, as it almost appears as though the owl was using a visualization technique as it prepped for its launch. OK ... get on the edge of the stake... up with the wings... target in sight ... that's how it's done. LOL
Hope everyone knows how their weekend plans will unfold as well. I'm excited to say that I hope to be out photographing this weekend, as it has been a while since I have. Wishing everyone the best!
Thanks for stopping by to view and especially for sharing your thoughts and comments.
© 2014 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
From Nexus: apps.facebook.com/_nexus_/
Connecticut on the left, Molecular on the bottom, WPI on top, and the Boston/Cambridge social scene on the right..
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I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
Graphed in this image are all the items that were featured on the front page then sold within the day, sorted into columns by price. It was generated from data spanning the last two weeks of September 2007 using a program written in Flash AS3.
Please view the original resolution.
Looks like there is a sweet spot at $15, as well as most of other multiples of $5. The sole item in the $0 column, was actually listed as $.20 and rounded down for the graph placement (also known as a P.I.F.).
www.etsy.com is a marketplace to buy and sell handmade goods and is a company I helped co-found in June 2005.
PROJECT:Jinhui Park
DESIGNED BY SCDRI
RENDERED BY FRONTOP
Frontop creates 3d rendering, architectural rendering, architectural visualization and architectural animation for architects, designers, real estate developers and much more.
sent to my group www.flickr.com/groups/abc-visualized for the letter C: 1. Happy Furry weekend..., 2. Maiden Flight Concorde 002, 3. Colliding planes, 4. Untitled
I'd like to say hola! to my most frequent visitors, friends, family and not so friends but I really appreciate your kind support. I'm including the ones I know they silently come time to time. Also hello to my 4 well known spies who decided to choose the dark side of the force. I guess you're planning your holidays. I'll go to Mallorca and Ibiza soon. Well, this is not completely true yet but I need to visualize it to make it real! ;-D
This song always cheer me up. I don't know what it says... It sounds like Disney into me and I don't know why. I hope you're having a good time!
Listening...
www.goear.com/listen/f083f46/LDN-Lily-Allen
<3
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
CMS utilizes a distributed infrastructure of computing centers to provide access to data stored on disk only at Tier-2 centers and tape with disk caches at Tier-1 centers. Attached are CPU resources for organized processing and analysis. Data is organized in datasets which consist of files grouped in blocks for performance reasons. CMS uses it's data transfer system PhEDEx, to transfer datasets from site to site and its data bookkeeping service DBS to track location and metadata. Integrated over the whole system, even in the first year of data taking, the available disk storage approaches 10 petabytes of space. Maintaining consistency between the data bookkeeping service, the data transfer system, and physical storage is an important operational task which guarantees uninterrupted data availability.
This is a Social network anlysis from www.linkedinlabs.com/inmaps of my LinkedIn contacts. The color coding corresponds to different groups that I know, and how the tool classifies them. (I will say that it is remarkably correct)
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