metaViz (i.e, what I've been up to lately)

I'll admit, I haven't been blogging as much as I'd like to this summer. most of my time has been spent developing metaViz, an application designed to allow blog readers to see potential conceptual metaphors in political blogs. here's a blurb about the project:

metaViz is a system that finds conceptual metaphors in political blogs, displays the metaphors in an interactive visual fashion, and lets you look at the different ways in which many concepts are framed in those blogs. For example, a 'campaign' is often talked about like a 'war' -- both are 'fought,' 'won,' 'lost,' 'survived,' etc. The goal is to foster critical thinking, getting people to think about what's being said not just by the words themselves, but between and behind the words.

if you have a chance, check it out, and feel free to pass it along to anyone you think might be interested. if you have any thoughts about the project, drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you.

"quantum computing...

...is the computing of the future and always will be."
- Jean-Luc Gaudiot

link to a demo

I've been a little taciturn of late with respect to blogging, not so much for lack of ideas, but for lack of time. to hear a bit about on what I've been working that's taken so much of my time, check out this post about a demo we did today.

I may very well be blogging over at Calit2.Life pretty soon, in which case I'll cross-link from here.