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- Subject: Andy Rose's comments
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:18:32 GMT
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- I would like to note that the first several years of my research
- in multivariate visualization was performed on an 8088 machine with
- eight colors and 720x300 resolution. So, Andy, there is hope for
- those without enormous hardware budgets. The focus of the issue
- is shifted to access to the enormous data bases, and strategies for
- partitioning those bases with sufficient integrity to reveal
- the kinds of patterns desired. The census data is available to
- almost anyone through regional and school libraries for nominal
- charges. If you want to pursue social visualization as characterized
- in Andy's post, the World Game Institute in Philadelphia is a
- source of economic/sociological/ecological data sets in easily
- accessible formats. Most of these are prepared from UN statistics.
- The really interesting pattern discoveries indicated by Andy will
- be found in custom sets created by researchers from diverse data.
- Our tutorial at Vis92, and the workshop preceeding it, will address
- some of the problems associated with this research.
-
- I would be happy to correspond with anyone concerned with these matters.
-
- -Jeff
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