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With point sprites you can place a 2D textured image anywhere onscreen by drawing a single 3D point.  Perhaps the most common application of point sprites is for particle systems. A large number of particles moving onscreen can be represented as points to produce a number of visual effects.

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Overview
The aim of the workshop is to enable users to visualize their data and to gain insight from their large and complex data sets. The workshop is for new users to get quickly up to speed with the visualization tool AVS/Express and for experienced users to refresh their knowledge on the numerous visualization options available. Participants can bring their own data for visualization and discuss their visualization projects with experts.

Prerequisites
Experience of UNIX or Windows is an advantage. Please bring your own notebook (Linux, Windows or Mac OS X 10.x) to the workshop with AVS/Express installed (temporary license is available free of charge – please send mail to: visual_solutions@compuserve.com).

Registration
There is no charge for attending the workshop but places are limited so registration is required (registration).

Trainer
Mario Valle, CSCS
Tobias Schiebeck, International AVS Centre

(The workshop will be held in Zurich on May 10)

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AVS Software and Services to Help Opera Provide “Quantum Leap” Answers to Enterprise and Vertical Solutions Created From Big Data Flows

Opera Solutions, a global leader in machine-learning science and predictive analytics, has selected data visualization software from Advanced Visual Systems to add rich, graphical and interactive features to its advanced Big Data applications. This combination will support superior graphical presentations of OS’s advanced analytic output at the front lines of customers’ operations.

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Continue reading »]]> Advanced Visual Systems provides data visualization software that helps create three-dimensional (3-D) views of terrain that reveal surface characteristics that are invisible to traditional overhead photography. Using Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology that displays aerial test data in colorful contour presentation, Boeing Directed Energy Systems is developing widespread applications in surveillance, mission planning and geology that allows analysts to also detect extremely small terrain anomalies and isolate them for scrutiny.

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Data visualization software from Advanced Visual Systems (OTC Pink: AVSC) has been selected by scenarioDNA, a New York City-based consumer insights firm, to create a multi-dimensional view of social media data that has been processed to reveal the emergence of small networks of like-minded consumers. These interactive “culture maps” enable product manufacturers, retailers and advertisers to better understand shifting consumer attitudes and develop real-time strategies that address marketplace needs.

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Data visualization software innovator Advanced Visual Systems announced today that Schrödinger, a scientific leader in computational drug design software for pharmaceutical and biotechnology research, has selected AVS data visualization technology to add interactive graphics to Schrödinger’s proprietary software Seurat.

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Continue reading »]]> While planning a recent trip to Los Angeles it was interesting to see how ubiquitous charting and data visualization have become in the world of consumer travel.  If only most corporate dashboards would do as good a job of presenting data to decision makers as Bing and Hipmunk.  For all of Kayak’s filtering and functionality, it’s surprising that they haven’t elevated their UI (and as a result their UX).

Bing does an elegant job of integrating predictive analytics without much fanfare, but gets the job done right:

Kayak wasn’t quite as successful in elegant presentation but did put the search results into context (although Bing’s prices were almost 50% less)

Hipmunk has by far the most visual UI and does a great job of eliminating 99% of the gadgetry and impairments to making a quick and confident travel decision:

Last year I wouldn’t have recognized any of these examples as “data visualizations”—but they are all definitely data-driven graphics and excellent examples of converting information into actionable insight and that’s what data visualization is all about.

Google didn’t make the grade at all in terms of UI innovation with their new Google Flights product.  A gratuitous and boring map is all they offered in terms of graphics and it was of no value whatsoever (and a huge waste of screen real estate):