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Tons of water are flowing from Greenland's glaciers.
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Complexity modeling is creating a 'big picture' to match reality.
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Animation used to visualize ice movements.
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'Big Data' can be beautiful.
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Big Data, virtual labs, and teaching science.
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Jupiter as a Grateful Dead poster.
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Visualizing a black hole.
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Leonardo de Vinci used the phrase Saper Vedere-- knowing how to see --to express his idea of making connections between diverse observations. That is how he developed those forward-thinking flying contraptions from watching birds in flight or how he saw, in ripples of water or human hair waving in fluid air, designs for his paintings. Nowadays, we might call Leonardo's approach connecting the dots or seeing the big picture.
Visualizing insights or patterns in gathered data is no less ...
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Once upon a time, research seminars consisted of a group of graduate students sitting around a conference room table, sharing a couple of beers, putting Kodachromes in the carrousel slide projector, and discussing data on a white board. It was interactive on a conversational level. Even though meetings of researchers still take place everywhere, those antique approaches to data visualization and discussion are long gone. Today, powerful new tools including notebook computers, digital media ...