Mapscii in the terminal with "telnet mapscii.me"

From: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii via Micha

NYC Subway Travel Time Map by Nate Parrott.

From: http://subway.nateparrott.com/ via https://twitter.com/_callil/status/939139835813683205

A screenshot of a visualization that shows the price development 2005-2015 of Finnish apartments by postal code region. Price trends have also been predicted for the year 2017.

From: http://kannattaakokauppa.fi/#/en/?mode=trend

Embeddings raise the possibility of exploring ideas spatially. The central challenge is how to balance between automatically laying out ideas semantically and allowing the user to group or cluster themselves.

User movement mirrors the experience of the best physical brainstorming - cutting up pieces and rearranging, examining, rearranging again.

Embeddings promise automatic clustering and hopefully surfacing new connections.

Embedding search now active on this very blog:

• Home woodworking DIY
• Embeddings
• Maps

School layouts optimized for traffic flow by Joel Simon.

From: http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html

Thinking about getting rid of the lines for the sidebar/cover map.

Oooo I bet there are some interesting things to be done with context.isPointinPath().

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/pixelated-world

Image of a Wardley Map – a 2-dimensional map that's meant to map how a business works.

From: https://medium.com/code-for-america/the-tyranny-of-agile-4e406c1da7fa#.ladi3gp6y

Through work, I've been playing with the Gemini model's ability to return bounding boxes for an image. I think I want to try and use it to make some sort of image (sketch or photo) to website generator. Maybe leaning into skeuommorphism of like a photo of a physical desktop that contains all the links to my projects as items on the desk.

A very sketchy proof of concept

Here's a brainstorm:

Continuing to work on making the graphs specific to probability mode in the real estate prototype.

I made a GIF of running UMAP on the digits dataset, adding one digit into the dataset and retraining each frame. This was probably a weird thing to do but it is helping me to develop more of an intuition of what it's preserving (nearest neighbors) and what is not informative (overall positioning/scale).

Image to link map test. From: https://gemini-spatial-example.grantcuster.com/

A colorful treemap visualization.

From: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/index.shtml

From https://jamie-wong.com/2014/08/19/metaballs-and-marching-squares/

A diagram of database tables, each table is a small box with a scroll bar, lines connect the boxes showing the connections.

From: https://www.google.com/search?q=database+tables&espv=2&biw=1436&bih=805&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpl--i1pPMAhVCGD4KHVL0Dr0Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=ezrLzmsn6ZMzQM%3A

A screenshot of the interactive New York Times visualization about the best and worst places to grow up. It shows a sentence created based on a map selection.

From: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html

Entering battle.net diagram.

From: https://medium.com/@cwodtke/five-models-for-making-sense-of-complex-systems-134be897b6b3

Grid work continues.

You can see how UMAP clusters are structured by things like the orientation of the number if you travel along their axes.