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If you’re planning to catch the U.S. presidential debates tonight, you should have a second screen open and a browser pointed to ReConstitution 2012, a web application that we collaborated on with Sosolimited for The Creators Project. ReConstitution 2012 is a live deconstruction of the presidential debates. It scrapes the closed caption data from the […]

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ReConstitution 2012 – Live Debate Deconstruction and Visualization

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• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• design

A week or so ago we got some exciting news — The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is releasing an incredible dataset about the usage of Hubway Bicycles that collects more than half a million rides! Not only is the data being released, but along with it a Visualization Challenge has been announced here. Our […]

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Hubway Data Visualization Hack Day at Bocoup

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• data visualization

When analyzing and visualizing a new dataset, you’ll often find yourself working with data over time. Most software assumes that the data in a time series is collected at regular intervals, without gaps in the data: while this is usually true of data collected in a laboratory experiment, this assumption is often wrong when working […]

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Padding a Time Series in R

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• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• tutorial

Yesterday marked an exciting moment for myself and Bocoup. I spent the day at the White House Safety Data Jam in Washington, D.C., as part of the launch of the new Safety Data Initiative. As one of a group of 40 participants, I was invited to join other top technologists in the country as well […]

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Bocoup goes to the White House

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• open source

Over the past 3 months Bocoup has been working closely with the Guardian Interactive team on the Miso Project, a set of open source libraries designed to expedite and simplify the creation of data-driven interactive content. We are excited to announce the release of the first of these libraries called Dataset. You can see the […]

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Introducing the Miso Project and Dataset Library

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• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• design,
• miso project,
• open source,
• tools and workflow,
• web applications

We are excited to announce a new web application for exploring AngelList Data that we’ve been working on with our friends at Atlas Venture and AngelList: Startup Data Trends → We built this application with Backbone.js and the Backbone Boilerplate on top of the new AngelList REST data API. We used Jake and Capistrano for […]

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Startup Data Trends

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• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• design,
• web applications

Augmented Reality: using JSARToolkit with WebGL & HTML5 Video Last week I spent some time running tests and generally familiarizing myself with the JSARToolkit code. I also built a JavaScript wrapper for the library to make it easier to use. JSARToolkit is a JavaScript library converted from FLARToolkit (Flash), and is developed for tracking AR […]

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JavaScript Augmented Reality

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• data visualization,
• tools and workflow

Today, Newsweek.com launched its brand new Career Tree Visualization tool (link now defunct, but check out this demo visualization of Barack Obama’s career), which was developed at Bocoup. Career Tree is a vector based RaphaelJS/Burst visualization of your career – you can activate it by connecting with your LinkedIn account or by filling out a […]

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Newsweek Career Tree Visualization with RaphaelJS and Burst

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• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• design,
• tools and workflow