Jan 3, 2015 — The Velvet Stallion — Tangled and fiery, you know his kind Intensity and anguish burns his mind Darkly focused, inexorably lucid Barraging loves, timidly elusive The velvet stallion, charging by day Barraging loves, barrier you away. A swirling of desire caught in his eye... Read more

Jan 3, 2015 — T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding — What do we want to do? We want to visualize similarities in high dimensional data. Why should we care? We want to develop hypotheses about processes that generate our data, and discover interesting relationships. The visualization must match and preserve... Read more

Dec 31, 2014 — My Definition of "Art" vs. "Something Else" — For years I’ve struggled with trying to define (for myself) the difference between “art,” and visualizations that (while of course they fit in the domain of art) I find inspiring or meaningful. I want to start with the understanding that... Read more

Dec 30, 2014 — Dynamic Rendering of Brain Atlas SVG for D3 Work — I was using traditional python tools to convert a brain atlas into an svg for use in a d3 visualization. Here is an example image (very pretty!) But when you look at the svg data in a text editor, I... Read more