{"id":3267,"date":"2016-03-12T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2016-03-12T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:32:36","slug":"a-tool-for-your-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/12\/a-tool-for-your-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tool for Your Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Brent Hecht of the University of Minnesota\u00a0introduces<\/a> Atlasify:<\/p>\n

In Hecht\u2019s announcement on the GroupLens blog<\/a>, he describes Atlasify as \u201ca system that lets you make a map of almost anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when Hecht says \u201canything,\u201d he means it.\u00a0 The examples he demonstrated during a recent interview with CS&E ranged from \u201cbadminton\u201d and \u201ccountry music\u201d to \u201cWorld War II\u201d and \u201cStar Trek.\u201d\u00a0 Additionally, he showed many more sample queries that he and his team have set up on the Atlasify homepage<\/a> so users can see the search engine in action.<\/p>\n

Unlike many popular search engines that generate a list of hyperlinks, each Atlasify query generates its own, unique interactive heat map for users to explore.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtlasify allows you to create maps there are no atlases for,\u201d said Hecht.\u00a0 \u201cFor example, there isn\u2019t an atlas for \u2018ice hockey,\u2019 but we can make one\u2014in fact, we made one.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(University of Minnesota’s Computer Science & Engineering newsletter)<\/h6>\n

I mucked about with it for a few minutes. \u00a0It’s a neat concept that needs some refinement. For example, the Geography category is … too political. \u00a0That is, information is mapped to political boundaries, rather than discovering a more information context. \u00a0In the below sample, I asked for the Geography of Iron Ore. Here in Minnesota, iron ore is a big part of our history, but only up in the Arrowhead section of the state, in the northeast; the mined material would then be sent to Duluth for shipping. So I’d like to see a gradation of the green (indicating ‘relatedness’) from northeast to southwest. \u00a0The difference on the map from Minnesota to North Dakota is misleading at best.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

Or here is a Geography of oil production:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

But these are recommendations for refinements, not condemnations. I look forward to seeing how the project evolves and how the bright and creative reach out and make this a useful tool in their own endeavours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Brent Hecht of the University of Minnesota\u00a0introduces Atlasify: In Hecht\u2019s announcement on the GroupLens blog, he describes Atlasify as \u201ca system that lets you make a map of almost anything.\u201d And when Hecht says \u201canything,\u201d he means it.\u00a0 The examples he demonstrated during a recent interview with CS&E ranged \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}