The 3D images made you look at information in a different way, not just looking at a boring old map that everyone uses to view information. It reminds me of sitting in my useless GEOG 160 class that I am taking right now that is all about viewing boring maps that everyone views. However, people only look at the map as for what it shows and depicts. They just don’t get anything else out of the map. But with the visualizations, not just maps, visualizations that we saw in the Extreme Events Lab with the flights in and out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The LAX visualization showed flights by Airline Company (shown in different color pyramids) all having the information of the flight imbedded in each pyramid. Each pyramid showed altitude, speed, airline, Airline Company, and flight number.
We talked about how situation awareness is used in the military and emergency services (i.e. police) and that it is being used in education and many other different areas of everyday life. Situation awareness is very important in the military and emergency services because most times lives are on the lines. Especially with pilots, pilots need to be constantly aware of what is going on around them and the condition of their aircraft.
We watched the Rainbow 6 Patriot trailer in class, it was awesome thank you everyone for taking the time to pause class.
The video I have embedded in this blog post is amazing showing all the Twitter traffic after the Japan earthquake. It reminded me of the extreme events lab demonstration we saw tonight. 
Evan, I could not agree more with the opening to your blog. The extreme events lab was amazing and was the coolest thing that we have done in the class thus far. It also reminded me of how useless our Geography 160 class is because it is very cut and dry on information about mapping and maps themselves. After taking SRA 468 this class is quite literally a waste of time, but that is beside the point. The point is that if that class wanted to really do something worthwhile they would do their labs in the 3D events lab because it was fun using it to learn.
ReplyDeleteI must say you are quite special to be talking about the Rainbow 6 trailer we watched in class haha good job brother. Anyways, that trailer was awesome but we also covered more things about Twitter and disaster relief, which may have made me start to fall asleep a little considering that, is all we have talked about for the past month and I would like to discuss something new in class. Although Twitter usage in both the developed and undeveloped world is very interesting by implementing its uses for disaster relief, I would like to learn more.
Evan, I thought that your blog was very interesting this week and you brought up many useful and some not so useful points. The video that you posted was very cool and gave a solid overview of Twitter and its current effect today on the field of disaster relief. Overall, you have once again created an ingenious blog post and did a good job at describing the 3D events lab. I thought that place was really cool and think we should work on our final project for this class in there. Great job buddy keep it up.
Hello Sir Evan Jarusewski,
ReplyDeleteThis class was definitely the most fun class this semester so far! I loved seeing the inside of the Extreme Events Lab, and seeing a demonstration of the CAVE. Although I wasn’t a fan of the 3D glasses… I would much rather prefer 3D contacts or something like that… I still absolutely loved it and wanted to do more with it than what we saw in the demonstration. It definitely made me realize the non-typical ways that people can visualize data, and how doing such things can open doors to thoughts you wouldn’t have thought of unless you saw it in 3D in the CAVE.
When I watched the video you posted as part of your blog I immediately thought about how awesome it would be to view the data in 3D and how much viewing the data like that would be of benefit. Having not only x and y axes, but also a z axis when viewing data can expand the possibilities of data and information gathering and understanding quite significantly. I thought your video was an excellent example of the Extreme Events Lab’s CAVE demonstration. You did a really good job on this blog, and I enjoyed reading it. (Not so much the Rainbow 6 Patriot trailer though.)