The Power of Graph Databases as Explored via an Alaskan Food Web
Most of us are familiar with databases on at least some basic level. I maintain a database of plant and animals from Oregon just for my own interest. There are tables that have...
Category: VizLab – Data Visualization
Emerging Technology & Digital Bird Nests
J.Stephens/R.Stephens I had the honor and pleasure to work with some great colleagues this summer (June Stephens, and Joe Cerreta and Patrick Sherman from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) on a project to show off new...
Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Communicating in the Classroom – Lightboards / Learning Glass
Being able to interact with or connect to your audience while you write is likely a winning way to keep your audience focused on your content. One way to do this is to...
Coding, Computers, & Generative Art
This winter I am teaching a class on visual communication and one of the projects for the class will likely be a quick exploration of generative art. This is art that is created using...
Transit of Mercury
Monday, November 11th, 2019, marks the next time the planet Mercury can be seen crossing in front of the Sun from Earth. This event is known as a transit. In the case of Mercury,...
Isla Clarion – Remotely Sensed NDVI – Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
For the last several years, my personal research interests have been in the area of conservation planning for remote places. This year I picked Isla Clarion, one of the Revillagigedo Islands, and a...
Visualizing Proteins – SAIL
In conjunction with Raghu Parthasarathy’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL) class on biophysics, we worked with the students in the Price Science Common’s VizLab to get them to review and visually analyze...
Augmented and Virtual Reality with the UO Science Literacy Program
Last week members of the Science Literacy Program visited the Price Science Commons’s VizLab to explore AR and VR hardware and software as they relate to science education. I had the chance to...
What is Technology? – UO
Just back from the “What is Technology?” Conference up in Portland, Oregon this Weekend. What a trip. The conference was wonderful, and I met some very interesting folks and had some great conversations. ...