The trio took the T’s data from August 12, ran it through openFrameworks and Matlab statistical software, and made the images with Adobe Illustrator.
So next time you hear an announcement about a disabled train or signal problems or an unruly passenger, just think about how pretty the delay will look on a poster.
Taking that down a few pay grades, blogger Steve Garfield is conducting an experiment, posing a question to the four candidates for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. He asked Martha Coakley, Mike Capuano, Steve Pagliuca and Alan Khazei, “How do you handle disagreement on a work team?” So far, he’s heard back from Capuano, or whoever is ghost writing Capuano’s Twitter stream.
The bumpy economy continued to take a toll on U.S. console gaming market in October, the last full month before the peak holiday sales season. Overall sales of video games hardware, software and accessories fell 19 percent compared with the same month last year, according to the NPD Group research firm.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 continued to improve its position, with 320,600 units sold in the country for the month, up considerably from its October 2008 result of 190,000 units. Nintendo’s Wii reclaimed the top spot for the month, with 506,900 units sold, but that was down from more 800,000 units sold a year ago. (more…)
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington sits down with the recently laid-off Don Dodge and conducts an unofficial exit interview with the former director of business development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team.
Dodge, who said he was in Silicon Valley “just visiting friends,” to Arrington’s disbelief, said he might have been “too visible,” as the company’s startup liaison, and that might not have gone over too well with some at the software giant.
Google is conducting a poll to decide which landmark should be next to be mapped by its Street View-recording tricycle. Other candidates include Stanford University, the Bronx Zoo and Alcatraz, among others.
What, no Fenway? No Castle Island? They may as well digitize the art installation that is City Hall Plaza while they’re at it, if they end up mapping Quincy Market across the street. Mapping things like the Somerville bike path also would add more walking routes around the Paris of the 90s, and just more Somerville, which the world clearly needs. It would also be pretty cool, if not particularly useful, if they strapped one of these things to an MBTA train, or just had someone drive the tricycle up and down the Orange Line.
After the jump, watch the innovative power of a company that made $1.6 billion in profit last quarter distilled into a guy riding a tricycle. (more…)
The computer system, which you wear around your neck, projects information on the world around you, which you can then manipulate with your hands. Pretty soon, you may be able to build your own for about $350. Mistry told a TED India panel this week he didn’t want to subject SixthSense to corporate whims.
After the jump, watch Fluid Interface Group director Patti Maes present the technology to the TED conference in March. (more…)
NPR’s Morning Edition reports on job counseling efforts at the state of New York’s Department of Labor, and finds it’s using an algorithm developed by Burning Glass Technologies, which is based in Quincy Market.
Burning Glass develops algorithms that parse resume information and try to match job seekers with companies that will actually hire them. The job seeker in the story, a publishing industry executive, wasn’t “overly impressed” with the results, but with unemployment hitting 10.2 percent, somebody has to organize all that resume information.
Technology Review takes a look at Charlestown-based Cogito Health, who has developed software to determine whether people are depressed or not based on an analysis of their voices.
The MIT Media Lab spinout is based on the research of Sandy Pentland.
Harvard Medical School has developed a H1N1-tracking iPhone app. The app is a project of HMS Mobile, which sounds like a British Navy ship, but says it’s a Harvard Medical group dedicated to helping people deal with day-to-day health emergencies.
Also — that’ll be two bucks. Just around the corner, those anti-capitalist hippies at Children’s Hospital, working with the MIT Media Lab, released their own, free H1N1 tracking app last month.
That’s two H1N1 apps sprouting from about one city block — If things keep up like this, pretty soon you should be able to use your mobile phone to track H1N1 germs chasing you down the street in real-time, or see the normally invisible H1N1 crawling over people’s faces in an augmented reality app, exposing them as the feverish, congested zombies they are.
The city of Boston’s iPhone app, is available for download today. The email archiving pothole-and-whatnot-reporting app allows residents to send the city service requests, including photos and location information.
Mayor Menino is holding a 2 p.m. press conference to announce the app’s availability with Bill Oates, the city’s CIO; Nigel Jacob, the mayor’s emerging technology adviser; and Dave Mitchell, founder of Nashua, N.H.-based software company Connected Bits, which developed the app.
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The bumpy economy continued to take a toll on U.S. console gaming market in October, the last full month before the peak holiday sales season. Overall sales of video games hardware, software and accessories fell 19 percent compared with the same month last year, according to the NPD Group research firm.
The city of Boston’s iPhone app, is 
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