PUBLIC MARKS with search columns

GeneaQuilts is a new visualization technique for representing

large genealogies of up to several thousand individuals. The

visualization takes the form of a diagonally-filled matrix, where

rows are individuals and columns are nuclear families. The GeneaQuilts system includes an overview, a timeline, search

and filtering components, and a new interaction technique called

Bring & Slide that allows fluid navigation in very large

genealogies.

Utility to re-structure research papers published in US Letter or A4

format PDF files potentially with 2 columns layout.

Sometimes, government officials believe that data is a “strategic asset” that can be licensed and sold to generate revenue – a powerful argument in these budget constrained times.

But once you put all the data in there (and there’s plenty of it), what do you do with it? Map, reduce and …?

…index and search, more often than not with Lucene/Solr. It’s good to store the data unbound from the strictures of structured rows and columns; credit the many cloud databases with the “No-S” of “No-SQL”. When it comes to the Language of Queries, perhaps No-QL really means Lucene/Solr?

So you design things with high tolerances and gentle failure modes which still look OK when everything isn’t quite as expected.

This is something that print is going to have to get used to. Slightly messier, with a few more bad line breaks and unbalanced columns.