Happy new year everyone!

The video from my (ger­man) xtopia talk is online. You need either the sil­verlight browser plu­gin to play it back, or you can down­load a high res ver­sion directly (144MB). And here are the slides.

Update: Here it is on vimeo as well. More web-friendly.

I speak about my work for the MACE project, and other ongo­ing work as well as some of the US elec­tion visu­al­iza­tions. The talk was fun and also received quite well; in the audi­ence eval­u­a­tion, I scored 7.88 (out of 9) for pre­sen­ta­tion style, 8.33 for com­pe­tence, 7.85 for con­tent of the pre­sen­ta­tion and 6.82 for busi­ness relevance.

In other news, things are a bit cum­ber­some at the moment, because I broke my leg and this will take a while to heal… But, it gives me the time to work on my port­fo­lio page, which should be online soon.

Seed mag­a­zine fea­tures a short text and inter­view about my work as part of the infor­mat­ics chap­ter of their state of sci­ence 2008 dossier. Nice!

PAGE mag­a­zine 05.08 has a title story on inter­ac­tive visu­al­iza­tion. Thanks to Jens Franke for the nice arti­cle and fea­tur­ing some of my works and blurbs under the head­line “Die jun­gen Visionäre” (“the young visionaries”).

Reminds me that this site needs a port­fo­lio section.

… visu­al­iz­ing your tags :)

The “Tag­ging” book by Gene Smith is out. I am still await­ing a paper copy, but had a chance to look at the online ver­sion already. It looks really com­pre­hen­sive, con­cise and cov­er­ing all impor­tant tag­ging con­cepts. Which is not easy for such a mov­ing tar­get topic.

Besides, my elas­tic tag maps visu­al­iza­tion is fea­tured on p.102f. Nice!

My the­sis was awarded a price for the best Mas­ters The­sis at our uni­ver­sity. Although the com­pe­ti­tion was not that large, I am proud nev­er­the­less. I should be pretty much unstop­pable now :)