The Local No. 12 crew had a blast running our game, Backchatter, at GDC 2010! As we mentioned in our blog post, the game code is now open-sourced! You can find it in our project on SourceForge.net.

The first assignment for the class was to collect data from each other and analyze it. In the first round, each of fours groups polled their classmates and acquired enough data to investigate a question they posed about the class as a whole. The groups exchanged data with each other and created interfaces and visualizations.

Fuki, Katie, Katrina

Leanne, Joe, Rabia, Monique

Kunal, Michael, Vanessa:

Akiko, Cat, Chun-Yu, Shipra

I am teaching the JP Morgan Collaboration Studio, also known as Visualizing the Financial Space, along with Chuck Yust, Scott Pobiner, and Heico Wesselius. Chuck and I are leading the group in the Design and Technology department, where we're focusing on the interfaces and visualizations that can be created for JP Morgan's social network.

I just discovered a bevy of research on the Enron email dataset. After the collapse of the company, all of the email from the roughly 150 ex-employees made it into a publicly available archive. This is a pretty valuable resource for people looking to test data-visualization ideas for social relationships. Hopefully, Chuck and I can find a way to use this in the fall for the collaboration studio we're teaching.