I've been through a lot of interesting papers this past week that deal with information seeking in software development. After reviewing the literature in this space, it strikes me as a good area for me to position my work in software project visualization. The work falls into three major categories: exploratory studies of [...] Read More…
Another grad student and I recently put together a video for a project related to our research. The summary we've been working with follows: Your average software project is made up of a rich history of change events: project emails, bug reports, source code edits, and wiki page edits are common types of change events [...] Read More…
I tore up some ligaments in my shoulder last week during my foolish escapades (really, it's not even a good story) and I've had to find some fun physical things to do that don't involve much upper body movement. Fortunately, I can still operate my speedy two-wheeled friend with my lame shoulder. Just as cars [...] Read More…
Ben Fry’s new book Visualizing Data is an introduction to applied visualization that should appeal to a wide audience. Designers, software engineers, and anyone curious about how to represent data with pictures will find it to be a good introduction to visualization techniques. Although the examples use Processing, a Java-based toolkit that Fry [...] Read More…
All of the Canadian national news providers were headlining tonight with the story of Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski’s 1991 video containing an anti-gay slur. In case you didn’t catch it, it goes like this: TOM LUKIWSKI: Well, as we say in tour, I may be old, but I’m fucking A, eh. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: [...] Read More…