{"id":577,"date":"2010-07-19T20:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2010-07-24T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:22:09","slug":"why-do-we-do-it-%e2%80%93-cause-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/why-do-we-do-it-%e2%80%93-cause-we-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we do it \u2013 &#8217;cause we can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pointed to this nice video of work from <a href=\"http:\/\/cs.uncc.edu\/~rkosara\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Kosara<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/had.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hadley<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosuda.org\/%7Eunwin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13437693&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13437693&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Emerging technologies &#8211; and muti-touch must be counted as such &#8211; offer new possibilities of creating an interaction with graphics. This implementation of Robert is certainly clean and straight-forward, but still raises the question, whether or not these operations are really things we need during a data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>What I found always very distracting when selecting data dynamically, was the amount of coordination which was necessary for the selection, which ultimately drew attention from the highlighting triggered by the selection. Often enough, this highlighting was most interesting in a different plot, and thus hard to watch while trying to get the dynamic selection right.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much this is the case for Robert&#8217;s prototype, but I am afraid I can&#8217;t tell until I get my hands on the software and a new MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The final question though for me is whether it will help people to get their data analysis jobs done more easily or not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pointed to this nice video of work from Robert Kosara by Hadley via Antony. Emerging technologies &#8211; and muti-touch must be counted as such &#8211; offer new possibilities of creating an interaction with graphics. This implementation of Robert is certainly clean and straight-forward, but still raises the question, whether or not these operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}