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Bruce Herr (bh2)
Bloomington, United States of America

Gigapans: 8
Snapshots: 21
Bookmarks: 0
Last Visited: May 09, 2008
Tags: development, software, visualization, wikipedia

Biography

Bruce W. Herr II is a full time software developer at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University, directed by Katy Börner. He enjoys making beautiful, extensible, usable, and maintainable software. Research interests are information visualization, human-computer interaction, taking advantage of cognitive processing in software, software design, aesthetics in visualization, and extensible software. Major software projects are the Taxonomy Validator, InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure, CIShell: Cyberinfrastructure Shell, and Network Workbench. He has worked on many large-scale visualizations including Movies&Actors, Wikivis, Neurovis, and the US Patent Hierarchy Vis. Originally from North Vernon, Indiana, Bruce received his BS in Computer Science in 2004 from Indiana University. His personal website is at http://about.bh2.net.

Gear
Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Debian on a Dell Optiplex GX280
Sun Fire V490
Sun Fire V490 running Solaris with 16GB of RAM
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Wikipedia Vizualization -- January 3rd, 2008
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: visualization, wikipedia
Size: 0.32 gigapixels
Added: May 9, 2008
Total Views: 1576

spacer This updated visualization by Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, and Katy Borner at Indiana University supplies a macro view of all of the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) and reveals those areas that are currently 'hot'.

The data and visuals have been updated since the last version. This version has all of the activity in Wikipedia up until January 3rd, 2008.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Visualization
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: movies, visualization, imdb
Size: 0.42 gigapixels
Added: April 10, 2008
Total Views: 2340
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer This visualization by Bruce W. Herr II, Weimao Ke, Elisha Hardy, Katy Borner provides a global overview of 428,440 movies contained in the IMDb. As another layer, all of the actors who ever acted together are displayed such that actors who acted together a lot are close to one another.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/dev/map_detail.php?map_id=149 .

A published paper describing the work is available at http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu/papers/2007-herr-movieact.pdf
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Math, Science, & Technology Articles in Wikipedia Visualization
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: visualization, wikipedia
Size: 0.17 gigapixels
Added: April 10, 2008
Total Views: 4522
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer This visualization by Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, and Katy Borner at Indiana University supplies a macro view of all of the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) while showcasing the Math, Science, & Technology articles in Wikipedia. This was done for the 3rd Iteration of the Places & Spaces (http://scimaps.org) exhibit.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia
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Wikipedia Visualization Poster
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: wikipedia, visualization
Size: 0.07 gigapixels
Added: April 10, 2008
Total Views: 3774
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer A smaller poster-sized version of the 5'x5' Wikipedia Visualization at http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=4277 .

This visualization by Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, and Katy Borner at Indiana University supplies a macro view of all of the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) and reveals those areas that are currently 'hot'.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia
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113 Years of Physical Review
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: visualization, physics
Size: 0.06 gigapixels
Added: April 10, 2008
Total Views: 1227
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer This visualization by Bruce W. Herr II, Russell Duhon, Katy Börner, Elisha F. Hardy, & Shashikant Penumarthy shows activity occuring over 113 years of the Physical Review physics journals.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/dev/map_detail.php?map_id=171
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2006 Sociey for Neuroscience Visualization
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: visualization, neuroscience
Size: 0.27 gigapixels
Added: April 10, 2008
Total Views: 1325
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer This visualization by Gully APC Burns, Bruce W. Herr II, David Newman, Tommy Ingulfsen, Patrick Pnatel, and Padhraic Smyth provides a map of the abstracts accepted for the 2006 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.

More information is printed on the visualization.

There is also a slightly more interactive version at http://scimaps.org/maps/neurovis/
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US Patent Hierarchy Visualization
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: patents, visualization, uspto
Size: 0.06 gigapixels
Added: April 10, 2008
Total Views: 5157
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer This visualization by Katy Börner, Elisha Hardy, Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, & W. Bradford Paley shows the organizational schema created to classify patents at the US Patent Office in a novel way. In addition it showcases two patents and their place in this map of the patenting space.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/dev/map_detail.php?map_id=141
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Wikipedia Visualization -- An emergent Mosaic of Wikipedian Activity
Author: Bruce Herr (bh2)
Tags: wikipedia, visualization
Size: 0.35 gigapixels
Added: April 9, 2008
Total Views: 5882
View in Google Earth 4.2+

spacer This visualization by Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, and Katy Borner at Indiana University supplies a macro view of all of the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) and reveals those areas that are currently 'hot'.

More information is at http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia

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Einstein

Created: April 9, 2008
Taken From: Wikipedia Visualization -- An emergent Mosaic of Wikipedian Activity
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Total Views: 115

A zoomed in section showing Albert Einstein and related articles.
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