Kitware Entry a Winner for Tax Visualization Contest

Jeff Baumes — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:14:48 -0400

A few months ago Google and Eyebeam announced the Visualize Your Taxes challenge. The goal was to come up with creative ways to show people where their tax money goes using various forms of data visualization. I was excited to hear that my entry was selected to be among the six finalists in the contest out of 40 entries. My visualization centered on using a calendar to let people see how their money would be distributed throughout the year. There is a nice new Javascript library called d3 and in particular an example using calendars, which inspired my design. Feel free to take a look and try it for yourself (caveat: it will not function correctly in Internet Explorer).

The contest winners were discussed on the Official Google Blog, which spurred related articles on Mashable, Time Techland, Huffington Post, ZDNet and other places. There was also an online chat with WNYC's Brian Lehrer that I participated in.

VTK Archiecture Review Board

Jeff Baumes — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:18:30 -0400

I just wanted to take the opportunity to tell you about what has been happening with the VTK ARB (architecture review board). The ARB was formed last year to facilitate forward progress in VTK. It is a task force consisting of researchers around the world that was formed to work out the details required to make important changes, such as release schedules and moving to git repository. The ARB wants your input, and wants to be transparent about its discussions and decisions. A page describing the ARB is located at

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/ARB

Scheduled meetings and meeting notes are located at

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/ARB/Meetings

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Kitware Entry a Winner for Tax Visualization Contest

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