Visualization

The MIX Online team has released their latest issue covering the topic of data and information visualization. Along with two articles on building infographics and future thinking around visualization, the issue includes a lab named Descry consisting of four visualizations: The Obesity…

Nikola, previously on showing his Shock game, is back with a new interesting project, a Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight.  Along with entertaining us with dancing stick figures, Nikola is also sharing the code, what he's learned and a primer on Motion Capture. Real 3D…

Jason Beres takes us on a journey through time and space using the new Timeline, Map and Zoombar controls from Infragistics. The Timeline and Zoombar make an interesting pair when combined with two sets of historical data.  I also like the point Jason makes about how…

This discussion about new Concurrency Visualizer features available in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview includes team members James Rapp, Sasha Dadiomov, Matthew Jacobs, and Alexey Kamenev.  Some of the new features include C++ AMP profiling support, an SDK for custom visualizations,…

CS undergrads Jen Solyanik, Wes Rupert and Stephen Grugett join us to discuss their experiences and accomplishments as summer 2011 interns at Microsoft. They were part of a team of engineering interns whose technical challenge was to design and implement parallel visualization technology…

Ah, just in time for the holidays! Sean Alexander has released an updated Yule Log Visualization for Windows Media Player. Originally released  as a part of the Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP, this visualization is simply a fireplace complete with crackling logs and dancing flames…

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 introduces new data visualization controls,  Databars, Sparklines and Indicators. In this screen cast we create a report to view sales data from AdventuresWorks database, we visualize the data using the new data visualization controls. The Code, SQL…

The SQL Server team has released an interactive Silverlight-based Cost Analysis Tool, which allows you to change different values to see your possible savings when setting up your IT department. An addition to handy visuals, its interesting to note that this is a light-weight companion…

Visual Numerics, Inc. rep discusses and demos the VNI math library (native and .NET versions), as well as their PV-Wave graphical environment for manipulating and visualizing data.

In this video we demonstrate how to run ParaView scalably with the Microsoft HPC Server. We describe the requirements for accessing, processing and rendering your data in parallel and demonstrate parallel visualization with a challenging meterological data set. We explain our pipeline which first…