Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category
Here Comes Science
They Might Be Giants’ album, Here Comes Science, is collection of thought provoking audio/video content for kids. A musical melody which covers a broad range of topics in science starting from why science is real and why it is so [...]
Interview with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘studies of the structure and function of the ribosome’, the cell’s protein-making factory. In this interview, he talks about his surprise at winning the prize, and what it meant [...]
Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations
Christopher Collins has developed this new visualization technique which can reveal interesting set relations in data using isocontours over existing visualizations. Following is the abstract of the Bubble Sets paper accepted in InfoVis ’09 While many data sets contain multiple [...]
Do animals have a concepts of art?
Renowned researcher Daniel Povinelli explores the notion of creativity and art in animals. Daniel is interested in characterizing the evolution of higher-order cognitive functions in the great ape/human clade (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans).
Helicos' True Single Molecule Sequencing
Helicos’ True Single Molecule Sequencing(tSMS)™ technology helps researchers to directly sequence the single molecules of DNA or RNA, significantly increases the speed of sequencing, while also decreasing the cost. Recently it was used for single-molecule DNA sequencing of a viral [...]
Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics
Featuring DynaVis, a visualization system featuring animated data graphics. Animating from a scatter plot to a bar chart (replacing a numerical dimension with a categorical dimension). The top path directly interpolates between the starting and ending states. The bottom path [...]
A Meditation on Biological Modeling
No doubt biological modeling is meant for mainstream biologists also, not just for hard core computer scientists or mathematicians. Not every one using the computer knows how transistors work or let say to drive a car you don’t need to [...]
Hadoop Visualization
This is a visualization of the data transfers inside a hadoop cluster. This is all Live data from a cluster at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
