Tomorrow afternoon Sara and I are heading to Sacramento for the InfoVis conference, where I’m participating in a panel on The Impact of Social Data Visualization alongside Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viega, and Ola Rosling. I’ll be representing Swivel, in particular our market driven approach to data sharing, collaboration and visualization, and emerging topics of data ownership and provenance, privacy, and so on.
I love bugs manifested visually. I encountered this one recently in developing a project for work:
This is something the programmers didn’t plan for, an edge case that someone didn’t cover. But in some of these cases the code still runs, just in an unexpected manner.
There’s a lot of loveliness in certain program errors. I had a post way back in the beginning of this blog showing off some nice bugs. And recently Ben bookmarked a cool thesis (pdf) and service that actually inserts glitches into images, producing some lovely and, for me at least, sometimes almost nostalgic results.
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